About the role
Overview: Disclaimer : Beware of Recruitment Scams - Legitimate Cvent recruiting communications will always come from an official ‘name@ cvent.com ’ email. We never request any payments or ask for sensitive personal or financial information via chat or social media platforms. For more information, please visit: https://www.cvent.com/en/notice-recruitment-fraud Overview: 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. 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. 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. We are seeking a proactive, technically skilled Lead Analyst to join our Information Security Risk & Compliance team in Gurgaon. Ideal candidates have 6–8 years of experience in information security risk management and will primarily lead and mature Cvent’s Third‑Party Risk (TPRM) program end‑to‑end. You will also provide secondary support across broader GRC activities, partnering with cross‑functional teams to enable timely risk decisions and strengthen our overall posture. This is a hands‑on role with significant stakeholder engagement and opportunity to drive measurable impact. In This Role, You Will: Security Risk Management & Compliance Enhance the Risk Assessment Program to mature assessment approach, monitoring processes, re-evaluation criteria and adopt a customized and AI-driven vendor security score card. Perform third-party vendor security assessments, many of which focus on security controls for data and app integrations, AI tools, AI related technologies (MCPs, LLMs etc), newer technologies, and SAAS tools. Perform comprehensive Technical R isk assessments and compliance evaluations for internal projects, internal systems, Cvent products, many of which focus on AI systems and AI project implementations. Support day-to-day security risk and compliance management tasks to support achievement of team objectives and an agile business climate. Support development of technical and AI-driven solutions and processes to automate or streamline repeatable security risk assessment, audits and contract management. Manage the end-to-end risk lifecycle , including risk identification, and a focus on identifying technical risk treatment plans in collaboration with cross-functional teams to recommend technical- and process-based mitigations and drive risk monitoring. Establish and maintain day-to-day and management level reporting for Risk Assessments. Lead and facilitate regional and global certification audits (e.g., ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2, PCI-DSS) by collecting evidence, implementing automated data aggregation processes, and tracking remediation efforts to ensure compliance. Provide daily operational support for compliance initiatives , ensuring timely execution of projects and alignment with organizational security objectives. Conduct identity and access control reviews to validate user permissions and enforce least privilege principles, including periodic review of AI agent and service account permissions. Contribute to the development, refinement, and implementation of security policies, standards, and procedures , emphasizing automation-driven workflows and actionable reporting for enhanced efficiency and incorporating AI governance guidelines to ensure responsible use and transparency. Leverage, fine-tune and maintain security automation tools (e.g., for automated control testing, workflow orchestration) to optimize risk management and compliance processes , reducing manual overhead and improving scalability. Conduct customer contract reviews; partner with Sales and Legal to ensure contractual language is negotiated consistent with Cvent’s security policies, practices and capabilities Here's What You Need: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field (master’s preferred). 4–7 years of experience in information security, with hands-on exposure to risk management, technology and vendor/supply chain security assessments, and audit and compliance. Experience implementing security practices and controls from leading security standards and regulatory
