Overview
Cvent is a leading meetings, events and hospitality technology provider with more than 4,800 employees and nearly 22,000 customers worldwide. Founded in 1999, the company delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business.
The DNA of Cvent is our people, and our culture has an emphasis on fostering intrapreneurship --a system that encourages Cventers to think and act like individual entrepreneurs and empowers them to take action, embrace risk, and make decisions as if they had founded the company themselves. We foster an environment that promotes agility, which means we don’t have the luxury to wait for perfection. At Cvent, we value the diverse perspectives that each individual brings. Whether working with a team of colleagues or with clients, we ensure that we foster a culture that celebrates differences and builds on shared connections.
In This Role, You Will:
- You will plan and conduct evaluative research (e.g., card sort, tree testing, usability, heuristics evaluations) and support generative research (techniques to help define problem space, such as contextual inquiry, ethnography, data mining) efforts for specified products or small program areas to build deep user understanding and empathy
- You will help teams cross-functionally by synthesizing and communicating the right information, defining and measuring success
- You will create testable hypotheses and use research findings to support, challenge, and innovate Cvent’s product
- Apply your expertise and knowledge of research methodologies, human factors, the usercentered design process, and statistics to product and service design in an iterative development environment
- Work with design, analytics, product management, customer support, marketing, and sales to formulate and address research questions
- Independently and collaboratively plan, execute, and analyze research across product or program areas
- Perform qualitative data analysis and support ongoing coding efforts
- Support survey design and execution as well as perform statistical analyses
- Undertake secondary research scans and comparative/competitive analysis
- Work within a small team to help evolve User Research practice
Here's What You Need:
- Bachelors and/or master’s degree in the study of user experience, design, research, business or related fields; for example, Information Design, Human Factors/HCI, Psychology, Cognitive Sciences OR alternative equivalent project/portfolio experience
- 4-7 years’ conducting user research within a UX team for software/web-based products
- Demonstrated knowledge of user-centered design principles and practices
- Knowledge of hospitality industry and experience of working on enterprise software (good to have)
- Experience with one or more of the following is a plus:
o Quantitative survey programming and analysis
o UX Research for Meeting/Event Planners, Attendees software
o UX Research for Mobile app or web development
o Managing and recruiting a usability lab
o Developing and executing research in support of product globalization
o Establishing and/or managing product/software baseline measurement system
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