Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 4,800 employees and ~22,000 customers worldwide, including 53% 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 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.
Let’s face it. Technology moves fast. In order to secure that technology, you need to be just as fast. Being agile in security today requires a combination of development, system engineering, and investigative skills.
That’s where you come in! In the Security Threat Analysis & Response (STAR), you will lead a high-impact team responsible for detecting, investigating, and responding to security threats across corporate and product environments. You are a hands-on leader with strong incident response expertise, experience scaling teams, and the ability to adapt security operations to evolving technologies, including AI-powered systems and automation.
This position at Cvent blends technical leadership, people management, and strategic ownership of incident response, threat detection, and continuous improvement initiatives. You will work closely with Security Engineering, SRE, Legal, IT, and Product teams to ensure effective response to security incidents, including those involving AI platforms, automated decision systems, and data-driven services. A key focus will be scaling intelligence-driven and automated incident response in dynamic cloud environments.
In This Role, You Will:
• Lead and manage the Security Threat Analysis & Response (STAR) team, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management
• Own and oversee security incident response across corporate and production environments, including incidents involving cloud-native and AI-enabled services
• Act as the incident commander for high-severity security incidents and coordinate cross-functional response efforts
• Define and maintain incident response plans, playbooks, and runbooks, including scenarios related to AI misuse, data leakage, and model abuse
• Partner with Security Engineering to improve detection and response capabilities across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, TIP, and AI- assisted tooling
• Drive adoption of automation and AI-assisted analysis to improve response efficiency and scalability
• Ensure effective integration of threat intelligence and threat hunting, including monitoring of emerging AI-related threats
• Track, analyze, and report incident trends, metrics, and risk insights to senior leadership
• Lead post-incident reviews and ensure learnings translate into improved controls and detection
• Stay current with evolving threats, AI security risks, and cloud security technologies
• Contribute strategically to the long-term roadmap of Security Operations and STAR capabilities
Here's What You Need:
• 10+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or security engineering, with 3+ years in a leadership role
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Strong experience investigating incidents in AWS-based cloud environments
• Solid understanding of incident response lifecycle, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and detection engineering
• Experience managing security tooling such as SIEM, SOAR, EDR, TIP, WAF, and exposure to AI-enabled security tools
• Working knowledge of AWS services including CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Lambda, S3, WAF, and Shield
• Ability to assess and respond to risks introduced by automation and AI-driven systems
• Strong communication skills to articulate technical risk, including AI-related security risks, to non-technical stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience securing cloud-native, SaaS, or data-intensive platforms
• Familiarity with AI/ML platform security considerations (data exposure, misuse, model access, automation risks)
• Working knowledge of Python or scripting for security automation
• Experience maturing SOC or Incident Response programs