Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with 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.
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. 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.
Internships at Cvent
Cvent’s paid internship gives students hands-on experience and direct mentorship that supports their professional development and career growth after college graduation. Interns are exposed to the inner workings of an industry-leading software company while taking ownership of projects that contribute to the company’s continued success. Interns may receive an offer for full-time employment after graduation.
In This Role, You Will:
- Scheduling, coordinating meetings for development teams
- Facilitating meetings by allowing and encouraging constructive communication and helping to keep topics on track throughout the events
- Helps to establish release and sprint cadence
- Manage and coordinate risks/dependencies and organize the team artifacts
- Identifies and escalates impediments
- Publishes committed project objectives
- Coordinates with product owners to keep the release and individual team sprint backlogs groomed
- Provide up-to-date and accurate department defined metrics on team performance, findings, issues and progress
- Participates in Scrum of Scrums
- Encourages Architect and Team collaboration
- Coordinates timely response and support to production line customer issues and helps to ensure that teams maintain adherence to Service Level Agreements
- Participates in Release Planning process
- Promotes adherence to Agile software development best practices
- Drives continuous improvement initiatives at the project and team level
Here's What You Need:
- Full-time college student with plans to graduate in May 2027 (summer between Junior & Senior year)
- GPA: 3.0 or higher
- Software development and/or project management experience, knowledge of Agile methodologies
- Understanding of backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, and task definition
- Strong leadership, time management, conflict resolution, and analytical skills
- Situational Awareness -Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management
- Enthusiastic -Must be high-energy
- Drive for continual improvement
- Quick learner -Must be able to quickly gain a high-level understanding of the technical and business domains of the development teams
- Self-motivation and the ability to work under minimal supervision are a must
- Outstanding written and oral communication
- Experience with Atlassian Tools such as Jira and Confluence preferred, but not required.
Ability to work remotely and in the office, following Cvent's hybrid work policy, with 2 in-office days on Wednesdays and Thursdays at our Headquarters in McLean, Virginia.
PLEASE NOTE: This position cannot offer any sponsorship, relocation/Summer housing, or exception to the graduation dates listed.
Most importantly, a successful candidate will be passionate about technology. Keeping up with the latest advancements in the industry; spending time creating, building, and exploring with technical projects; an inquisitive attitude in regard to the workings of hardware and software; and overall, simply having fun and finding enjoyment in the field
At Cvent we celebrate, support and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics.
We are not able to offer sponsorship for this position.