Commercial Contracts Lead

Overview Our Culture and Impact

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 5,500+ employees and ~30,000 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.

Cvent's strength lies in its people, fostering a culture where everyone is encouraged to think like entrepreneurs, taking risks and making decisions confidently. We value diverse perspectives and celebrate differences, working together with colleagues and clients to build strong connections.

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.

Cvent is expanding its Legal department to meet the demands of a fast-growing event technology company. This is an excellent opportunity for commercial contracts professional with significant SaaS contracting experience. The successful candidate will work closely with our Sales team. The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the commercial contract process, including drafting, reviewing, revising, and negotiating SaaS customer contracts, specifically for Fortune 1000 clients and prospects, both domestically and internationally.

This position will interact directly and frequently with Senior Leadership, and will report to the VP, Deputy General Counsel, Commercial.

In addition, this position requires a broad business perspective, the ability to apply this perspective to legal analysis and to devise innovative solutions that meet client needs. All work will require a "business" as well as a "legal" approach, requiring responsibilities and competencies in negotiation, structuring deals and validation of terms against commercial and industry norms, project management, and team leading that is much more than simply documenting the legal terms of an already agreed upon deal.

• Review, interpret, draft, revise and negotiate terms in customer and vendor contracts, both domestically and internationally. Our goal is to move contracts to completion in as expeditious a manner as possible while staying focused on protecting Cvent’s interests.
• Demonstrate capabilities in anticipating legal issues, accepting and effectively resolving sensitive legal projects, handling difficult situations diplomatically and independently.
• Revise, update and maintain the master service, non-disclosure, and other standard form agreements; perform regular internal reviews of existing legacy contracts and ensuring legal and policy compliance prior to customer account activation.
• Collaborate with various business functions in connection with driving deal negotiations.
• Post signing contract management, including amendments to existing contracts, business team support and counsel.

• 5-8+ years of total experience, with 2+ years supporting a sales team to draft and negotiate Enterprise-level Corporate Contracts.
  SaaS experience is required
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