TYSONS, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cvent, a market-leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider, today announced its intention to hire nearly 1,000 employees this year. The announcement comes on the heels of Cvent’s strong performance in 2018 in which the company added 1,000 net new employees and more than 5,000 new customers to its global customer base. The company, based in Tysons, Virginia, just outside of Washington D.C., has more than 600 positions currently open at its 20 office locations around the world.
“We hired almost 1,000 people last year and we’re doubling down on our recruiting efforts to ensure we can continue supporting our expanding customer base and delivering the innovations that will drive the industry forward,” said Sophia MacDonald, vice president of human resources.
“As we celebrate our 20th year in business, we continue to grow at an incredible rate. Our unique entrepreneurial culture, global presence, and dedication to our customers has allowed us to hire and retain top talent around the world, and we cannot wait to welcome a new generation of Cventers to our team,” said Reggie Aggarwal, CEO and founder of Cvent.
The new employees will join a company that continues to win prestigious industry awards across a broad spectrum of functions including sales, marketing, customer service, and technology innovation, and is consistently recognized both locally and internationally as a great place to work. Most notably, Cvent recently won 19 Stevie Awards for sales and customer service, marketing, and human resources, has been named one of the Top Workplaces by the Washington Post six years in a row, and has been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by the Washington Business Journal seven times. The company is also a certified Great Place to Work© in both the U.S. and India.
To support the growing headcount, Cvent will continue to expand and enhance their offices around the world including opening a new location in Austin, expanding the office in Fredericton (Canada) and opening new office space in its Delhi location. Many of the new employees will be hired at its headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, in addition to its other offices in North America including Washington D.C., Austin, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Portland, Dallas, Philadelphia, Lexington (Massachusetts), Draper (Utah), Vancouver (Canada), Fredericton (Canada), and its international offices in London, Singapore, Melbourne (Australia), Dubai, Frankfurt (Germany), and New Delhi.
For more information and a list of open positions, visit www.cvent.com/careers. Follow the hashtag #CventNation on Twitter and Instagram for an inside look into the employee experience at Cvent.
About Cvent
Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality software company with more than 4,000 employees, 25,000 customers, and 300,000 users worldwide. The Cvent Event Cloud offers software solutions to event planners and marketers for online event registration, venue selection, event management and marketing, onsite solutions, and attendee engagement. Cvent’s suite of products automate and simplify the planning process to maximize the impact of events. The Cvent Hospitality Cloud partners with hotels and venues to help them drive group and corporate travel business. Hotels use the Cvent Hospitality Cloud’s digital marketing tools and software solutions to win business through Cvent’s sourcing platforms and to service their customers directly, efficiently and profitably – helping them grow and own their business. For more information, please visit Cvent.com, or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.
