Assistant General Counsel

Overview

About Cvent:

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 5,000+ employees and 24,000+ customers worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business. Our technology brings millions of people together at events around the world. In short, we’re transforming the meetings and events industry through innovative technology that powers the human connection.

AI at Cvent: Leading the Future

Are you ready to shape the future of work at the intersection of human expertise and AI innovation? At Cvent, we’re committed to continuous learning and adaptation—AI isn’t just a tool for us, it’s part of our DNA. We’re looking for candidates who are eager to evolve alongside technology. If you love to experiment boldly, share your discoveries, and help define best practices for AI-augmented work, you’ll thrive here. Our team values professionals who thoughtfully integrate AI into their daily work, delivering exceptional results while relying on the human judgment and creativity that drive real innovation.

Throughout our interview process, you’ll have the chance to demonstrate how you use AI to learn, iterate, and amplify your impact. If you’re excited to be part of a team that’s leading the way in AI-powered collaboration, we’d love to meet you.

About The Role

Cvent is seeking a business-oriented Assistant General Counsel with an “intrapreneurial” spirit. This is a tremendous opportunity to serve as a player/coach on an in-house legal team of commercial lawyers supporting Cvent’s sales and procurement functions. The Assistant General Counsel will report to Cvent’s General Counsel and will partner with Cvent’s Associate General Counsel and Commercial Legal Team, as well as Sales, Finance, Information Security, Technology, and Human Resources, among others, to help Cvent mitigate its risks to attain its high-growth goals.

In This Role, You Will

Every day will bring new challenges and you can expect to be extremely busy. We are relying on you to stay organized and project manage a demanding workload. Your daily requirements include:

• Ability to lead a commercial legal negotiation, understanding how to balance key risks and opportunities in order to obtain a mutually acceptable contract in a way that protects the company’s interests but remains commercial.
• Draft, review, interpret, revise and negotiate terms of SaaS customer agreements, vendor and service provider contracts, and professional services agreements.
• With the oversight of Cvent’s General Counsel, and under the management of Cvent’s Associate General Counsel, Commercial, train and oversee team members’ commercial legal negotiations and manage workflow of team members responsible for commercial legal negotiations.
• Demonstrate capabilities in anticipating legal issues, accepting and effectively resolving sensitive legal projects, handling difficult situations diplomatically and independently.
• Collaborate with various business functions in connection with driving deal negotiations.
• Advise sales management of contractual rights and obligations and provide clarification of contract terms and conditions.
• Identify and analyze legal issues and risks, review and draft miscellaneous legal contracts, present clear recommendations, and ensure legal compliance across the full spectrum of legal issues facing the company.
• Other responsibilities may include providing legal advice on a wide range of commercial matters, such as intellectual property, data protection/privacy, regulatory compliance, and employment law, as well as company policies and procedures.
• Oversee India corporate governance and compliance.
• All other duties as assigned.
  
  

• LLB from an accredited law school; must be licensed to practice law.
• 15+ years of relevant experience; in-house preferred.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation and communication skills, as well as attention to detail.
• Experience managing a team while also remaining individually responsible for a full workload of negotiations and other matters.
• Commitment to bring practical and commercially-oriented judgment to bear in solving legal problems.
• Sound business acumen and knowledge of the business goals and objectives as they relate to the legal matter at hand.
• A problem solver who is action oriented and possesses a strong sense of execution and client relationship skills.
• Self-starter with ability to work under pressure, manage multiple projects and competing priorities, meet deadlines, and adapt to change within a growing company.
• Commitment to stay current on all laws and regulations relating to software as a service and B2B technology.
• High level of integrity and professional ethics.
• Demonstrated experience establishing credibility and rapport with executive-level management is a plus.