Lead/Principal Business Analyst

As a Business Analyst at Cvent, you will play a crucial role in driving strategic initiatives across data, insights, and AI. Your responsibilities will include: - Partnering with stakeholders to define business objectives, challenges, and opportunities in data and AI. - Translating needs into clear requirements, use cases, and success metrics. - Conducting feasibility analysis, cost-benefit assessments, and business cases for executive decision-making. - Shaping the data & AI roadmap, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy and measurable value. - Supporting governance, compliance, and ethical AI adoption. In addition, you will be responsible for: - Leading project intake, prioritizing, scoping, and aligning initiatives with business goals. - Managing cross-functional programs end-to-end, ensuring delivery on time and within scope. - Collaborating with Scrum Masters and engineering leads to enable effective Agile practices. - Defining acceptance criteria, tracking delivery, and validating outputs against business outcomes. - Anticipating risks, resolving dependencies, and driving issue resolution with leadership. - Championing continuous improvement to scale delivery practices. Furthermore, your role will involve: - Acting as a trusted advisor to executives, presenting insights and recommendations clearly. - Delivering executive-ready presentations, dashboards, and program updates. - Building strong partnerships with stakeholders across business, product, engineering, and analytics. - Facilitating workshops, requirement sessions, and steering committee discussions. - Driving adoption and change management through training and structured communication. Qualifications: - Bachelors degree in Business, Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or related field (Masters preferred). - 10+ years of experience in business analysis, consulting, or program management within data, AI, or analytics functions. - Proven record managing high-visibility, cross-functional initiatives with measurable business or revenue impact. - Strong executive presence with excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills. - Ability to engage and influence stakeholders across Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Product, and Analytics. - Deep understanding of data management, customer data, CRM systems, analytics platforms, and AI/ML technologies. - Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, PowerPoint, Power BI/Tableau/Sigma, Salesforce, and SQL basics; experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, AWS/Azure/GCP) a plus. - Experience in governance, compliance, and responsible AI practices preferred. - Strong problem-solving, prioritization, and ambiguity management skills. - Certifications in Agile, PMP, or Business Analysis (CBAP, PMI-PBA) a plus.,