At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. **Get to Know our Team** Agoda’s FinTech teams build and operate the platforms that power our global financial ecosystem. From payments and reconciliation to tax, compliance, and financial reporting, these systems sit at the core of how we scale our business reliably and responsibly. As Agoda continues to grow across markets, products, and partner ecosystems, tax technology plays a critical role in enabling compliant, scalable, and efficient financial operations. Our teams work across product, engineering, finance, and architecture to design robust solutions that balance control, flexibility, and innovation. In this role, you will help shape the future of Agoda’s tax technology landscape, partnering with stakeholders across Finance and Technology to build resilient, enterprise-grade solutions that support a fast-moving global business. **The Opportunity** We are looking for a Platform Architect to define and drive the technical direction of Agoda’s Tax technology ecosystem within FinTech. In this role, you will own the architecture vision and roadmap for scalable, secure, and compliant tax platforms that support Agoda’s global financial operations, high transaction volumes, and evolving regulatory needs. You will work closely with Finance domain experts, product managers, engineering teams, and fellow architects to translate complex tax rules and business requirements into robust technical solutions across Agoda’s internal systems, data flows, tax engines, and selected third-party platforms. As a senior technical leader, you will operate from strategy through implementation detail: guiding architectural decisions, challenging trade-offs, coaching engineering teams, and ensuring our tax platforms are resilient, adaptable, observable, and built for Agoda’s scale. You will help balance compliance and governance with engineering velocity, cost efficiency, and long-term platform quality. **This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand. (Relocation support is provided)** **In this Role, you’ll get to:** * Shape the technical direction, architecture strategy, and long-term roadmap for Agoda’s Tax technology ecosystem, aligning Finance, regulatory, product, and engineering goals. * Own the architecture of mission-critical platforms and capabilities, ensuring they are scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and adaptable to Agoda’s global scale, with the key starting focus being the Tax platform. * Design end-to-end solutions across internal systems, tax engines, APIs, data flows, and selected third-party platforms where they create clear business and technical value. * Work hands-on with engineering teams on key technical decisions, system design, implementation trade-offs, proof-of-concepts, and critical architecture components. * Lead architectural reviews and provide expert guidance on system design, integration patterns, reliability, maintainability, performance, and operational readiness. * Translate complex tax rules, compliance requirements, and financial workflows into clear technical models that engineering teams can build, evolve, and operate effectively. * Analyze Agoda’s current Tax technology landscape, identify systemic risks, duplication, inefficiencies, and modernization opportunities, and define practical transition paths toward the future state. * Establish and evolve architecture principles, engineering standards, documentation, and governance practices that improve quality without slowing delivery. * Drive improvements in quality, velocity, cost efficiency, scalability, and developer productivity across Tax-related systems and adjacent FinTech platforms. * Mentor and influence senior engineers, Staff engineers, and technical leads, raising engineering fundamentals across design, code quality, testing, observability, and production ownership. * Communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leaders across Finance, Product, Engineering, and Technology. * Effectively utilize AI to achieve all the above, including contributions in building the solutions you helped design. **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * **10+ years**of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles, with a strong track record of designing and evolving complex production systems. * **3+ years**of hands-on experience delivering tax-related technology projects across direct or indirect tax domains, or closely related finance technology domains, including building or evolving tax platforms. * Strong understanding of Tax technology domains such as VAT, GST, corporate tax, withholding tax, compliance workflows, tax calculation, reporting, reconciliation, and auditability. * Proven ability to shape technical strategy and architecture roadmaps across multiple teams, systems, or business domains. * Strong hands-on engineering background, with deep understanding of system design, APIs, data flows, integration patterns, reliability, observability, scalability, and operational trade-offs for mission-critical systems, including high-volume transactional platforms at enterprise scale. * Ability to translate complex business, finance, and regulatory requirements into clear technical models, architecture decisions, and executable engineering plans. * Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to senior engineering, product, finance, and business leaders. * Proven ability to mentor and influence senior engineers, Staff engineers, technical leads, and cross-functional teams without relying on direct reporting authority. * Strong ownership mindset, with a track record of identifying systemic risks, reducing duplication, improving engineering quality, and driving pragmatic modernization. **It’s Great if you have:** * Experience designing or modernizing global tax platforms that support multiple jurisdictions, products, currencies, and regulatory models. * Deep experience with tax engines or tax automation platforms such as Avalara, Vertex, OneSource, or equivalent custom-built solutions. * Experience with ERP systems, financial ledgers, invoicing, billing, reconciliation, or other finance platform integration points. * Familiarity with event-driven architecture, streaming, or middleware integration technologies * Experience with cloud-native architecture patterns, distributed systems, Kubernetes/EKS, serverless platforms, or large-scale service-oriented architectures. * Understanding of data privacy, auditability, financial controls, and compliance frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, SOX, or equivalent regulatory controls. * Experience leading large-scale platform modernization, proof-of-concept work, or architecture transformation across multiple engineering teams. * Exposure to large-scale global commerce, travel, payments, marketplace, or financial technology environments. #Bengaluru #SãoPaulo #Delhi 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We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics. We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our [privacy policy](https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement). ## Apply Now Senior Lead Software Engineer (Tax Solution), FinTech (Bangkok based, Relocation provided) +93 This role is based in Bangkok. We would offer relocation support and visa sponsorship. Are you open to relocate to Bangkok? 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At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. **Senior Security Operations Engineer:** We are seeking a hands-on Senior Security Operations Engineer to operate and improve key enterprise security platforms across endpoint, server, network, and secure access environments. This role will work closely with infrastructure, network, IT, and engineering teams to strengthen security operations, improve service reliability, and drive automation across critical security technologies. **Key Responsibilities:** * Design, build, and optimize CrowdStrike across user devices and server environments; define and enforce sensor policies, detection tuning, and response playbooks. * Administer and support Zscaler ZIA, ZDX, and ZPA. Manage policy lifecycles, tunnel configurations, app connector health, and user experience monitoring. * Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to network connectivity, VPN, secure access, and SASE services. * Support security operations activities, incident handling, and root cause analysis across managed platforms. * Use APIs and scripting to automate routine tasks, reporting, and platform integrations. * Deploy and manage security platform configurations through Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, following IaC best practices and change management processes. * Apply generative AI use cases to improve operational workflows, troubleshooting, and team productivity. **Required Skills and Experience:** * 7+ years of experience in security operations, endpoint security, network security, or security engineering roles. * Hands-on experience with CrowdStrike for both user devices and servers. * Strong knowledge of Zscaler ZIA, ZDX, and ZPA or other SASE solutions. * Experience in troubleshooting network, VPN, and SASE-related issues in enterprise environments. * Familiarity with APIs, scripting, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines. * Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate across multiple technical teams. #### Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click [here](https://careersatagoda.com/interview/)to learn how interviewing at Agoda works.
About Agoda At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. Get To Know Our Team: The People Team is a purveyor of opportunity, searching the globe for the most talented individuals and offering them an open, collaborative workplace. By prioritizing skill and potential, we have cultivated a powerful assembly of professionals through our drive for equal opportunity and diversity. We make the move to Agoda a breeze with assisted onboarding programs, and we continue to support and enrich our thousands of Agoda employees through individual growth with outstanding learning programs and various means of assistance. Our development of incredible benefits has ensured everyone can stay strong, healthy, and happy during their time at Agoda. Leading ambitious changes and making a positive impact in the lives of the employees, the People Team is a crucial and rewarding part of the Agoda family. The Opportunity: As a Compensation & Benefits leader, you’ll play a key role in shaping a competitive and equitable total rewards strategy that supports our people and business goals. You’ll own compensation and benefits programs, provide data-driven insights to guide managers and decision making, and partner closely with HRBP, Finance, Payroll, and business leaders to ensure our rewards offering remains competitive, effective, and aligned with our employee value proposition. What You’ll Do: * Develop and manage the company’s compensation philosophy, frameworks, and guidelines. * Conduct regular market benchmarking and salary reviews to ensure competitiveness and internal equity. * Lead the annual compensation review process. * Partner with HR Business Partners and business leaders on compensation decisions, promotions, new hires, and internal transfers. * Own and continuously enhance our employee benefits programs, including medical insurance, life insurance, retirement/pension, flexible benefits, recognition programs, and other benefits. * Evaluate benefits competitiveness, employee utilization, and cost effectiveness. * Lead benefits renewals and vendor negotiations, partnering with brokers, insurers, and providers to ensure quality service and appropriate coverage. * Partner closely with Finance and Payroll on budgeting, forecasting, and employee cost management. * Work with HR Operations and HRIS teams to identify and implement C&B process improvements. * Communicate compensation and benefits programs clearly to employees and managers. * Lead, coach, and develop C&B team members, where applicable. Required Qualifications: * 7+ years of experience in Compensation & Benefits, including hands-on experience managing compensation review cycles, conducting market benchmarking, and developing compensation guidelines, as well as overseeing benefits strategy and operations. * Experience with job architecture and job evaluation is a plus. * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn data into clear, actionable insights. * Great stakeholder management, able to engage in strategic discussions with senior management stakeholders. * Advanced Excel skills; good working knowledge of related tolls and systems. * Strong project management skills and sharp eye for detail. * Excellent communication skills; fluency in English required. * Good fit with our highly multi-cultural, fast-innovating environment, * Ability to cope well with ambiguity and change. * Humility, flexibility, good interpersonal skill
At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. **Get to Know our Team:** In Agoda’s Engineering department, we build the scalable and fault-tolerant systems. Our systems cover all major areas of our business: website, mobile apps, affiliate apis, inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments, finance and more. These mission-critical systems change frequently with dozens of releases per day, so we must employ state-of-the-art CI/CD, experimentation and advanced testing techniques in order to make sure everything works without any downtime. We also ensure that our systems are self-healing, responding gracefully to extreme loads or unexpected input. In order to accomplish this, we use state-of-the-art languages like React, Redux state management, Javascript, Kotlin, Scala, data technologies like Kafka, Aerospike and Big Data, and agile development practices. Most importantly though, we hire great people from all around the world and empower them to be successful. Whether you’re building new projects like Flights and Packages or innovating on the latest fintech idea or reimagining our existing business, you’ll make a big impact as part of our Engineering team. **The Opportunity:** The Senior Engineering Manager role at Agoda is one of the most significant and challenging roles in Technology. The right candidate has both deep technical knowledge and exhibits extremely strong leadership and people development skills. They should also have experience leading large engineering teams and managing managers. **In this Role, you’ll get to:** * Manage large engineering teams * Directly manage engineering managers and star engineers. * Provide technical input into new business ideas * Work with senior leadership up to C-level * Work and drive initiatives outside of your core team * Build and guide the technical roadmap for your area * Take ownership of major projects that are strategic to Agoda. * It’s important to have a love of engineering and a passion for building things elegantly and at scale. Staying in touch with where the industry is going is crucial, and it’s important to have strong opinions about how systems should be architected, engineered, and maintained. * Developing people – Despite our investment and belief in technology, people are still our greatest asset. The right candidate will have a keen interest in developing people: inspiring those around them so they can achieve their potential. Being able to bring A-players such as yourself from outside and integrating them into the business will also be important. **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * Experience managing large engineering teams (>25 people) * Experience hiring and managing engineering managers * Experience developing future engineering managers from within the company * Experience rapidly growing a team * Experience communicating to C-level * At least 5 years of experience managing engineering teams, 10+ years of experience in software engineering. * Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility * Able to operate with autonomously: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership * Extremely proficient in at least one programming language (React, Javascript, Kotlin, Scala, Java, C#) * Knowledge in scale, microservices and clean architecture. * A focus on velocity and quality, along with the right engineering metrics to guide and improve these. * Excellent people management and communication skills. * Minimum a B.S. in Computer Science or quantitative field; **It’s great if you have many of these:** * Proficiency in range of backend programming languages. * Experience in data engineering * Have experience managing in a data driven company with experience analyzing and working with Big Data * A key player at an Internet company that is at scale with large numbers of users and transactions per second * Worked on global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers. * Experience in Fintech / Financial Systems
**Roles and Responsibilities** * Design and implement scalable, reliable, and efficient data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and storing large amounts of data from a variety of sources using cloud-based technologies, Python, and PySpark. * Build and maintain data lakes, data warehouses, and other data storage and processing systems on the cloud. * Write and maintain ETL/ELT jobs and data integration scripts to ensure smooth and accurate data flow. * Implement data security and compliance measures to protect data privacy and ensure regulatory compliance. * Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to understand their data needs and provide them with access to the required data. * Stay up-to-date on the latest developments in cloud-based data engineering, particularly in the context of Azure, AWS and GCP, and proactively bring new ideas and technologies to the team. * Monitor and optimize the performance of data pipelines and systems, identifying and resolving any issues or bottlenecks that may arise. **Qualifications** * Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field. * Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Data Engineer, with a strong focus on cloud-based data infrastructure. * Proficient programming skills in Python, Java, or a similar language, with an emphasis on Python. * Extensive experience with cloud-based data storage and processing technologies, particularly Azure, AWS and GCP. * Familiarity with ETL/ELT tools and frameworks such as Apache Beam, Apache Spark, or Apache Flink. * Knowledge of data modeling principles and experience working with SQL databases. * Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues efficiently. * Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. ## Get to know our team In Product, ideas come alive. The world moves fast, and our culture is built on ownership, speed, and minimal bureaucracy. This is the environment that empowers you to make decisions, move quickly, and do what you believe is right. Our Product Managers move fast, learn from failure, and continuously iterate. As a product-centric organization, we work cross-functionally to build products from conception to launch, bringing together engineering, design, data, and business teams. Agoda Product Managers work closely with executive leadership and have high visibility across the organization, with direct impact on the company’s growth and strategy. We put travelers first and aim to create exceptional travel experiences through innovative product thinking. ## The opportunity This role is based in Bangkok/Tokyo based. Our Senior Product Managers are analytical, hands-on, and highly data-driven. They are responsible for building products end-to-end, using analysis, experimentation, and rapid iteration to create solutions that are tailored to traveler needs. As our next Senior Product Manager, Localization (Japan Market), you will define product strategy and drive execution for experiences serving Japanese travelers. You will partner closely with senior cross-functional stakeholders to identify opportunities, build impactful products, and deliver high-quality solutions for the Japan market. You will work with dedicated engineering resources that you help prioritize and allocate. We expect you to be hands-on, spend meaningful time with your SCRUM teams, and bring strong product judgment, experimentation mindset, and execution rigor. This role offers the opportunity to shape localized experiences at scale and influence how Agoda serves one of its key markets. This is an Individual Contributor role. ## In this role, you’ll get to * Develop a deep understanding of the online travel ecosystem, market dynamics, competitive landscape, and user needs in the Japan market * Define, build, launch, and optimize products and features through testing, experimentation, and rapid iteration * Drive localization initiatives that improve the experience for Japanese travelers across the product journey * Partner closely with Engineering, Marketing, Legal, Design, Analytics, and other cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact solutions * Translate market insights, customer needs, and business priorities into clear product strategies and roadmaps * Use data and quantitative analysis to identify opportunities, prioritize effectively, and measure product performance * Collaborate across regions, product areas, and functions to solve complex problems and drive meaningful business impact ## What you’ll need to succeed * Bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline * Proven ability to use analytics and quantitative methods to inform strategy, prioritization, and decision-making * Strong data skills, with the ability to independently analyze performance and generate actionable insights * Excellent communication skills in either Japanese with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and influence a wide range of stakeholders * Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and influence a wide range of stakeholders * Proven experience in Japan market localization, with a deep understanding of Japanese consumers, market dynamics, and local product requirements * Experience developing, launching, and optimizing products in a fast-paced environment * Experience leading product strategy, go-to-market thinking, and cross-functional product development discussions * Strong entrepreneurial mindset and analytical problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complexity and drive change * Hands-on approach with a strong sense of ownership and execution ## It’s great if you have * MBA or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field * Experience with data tools such as SQL, Python, R, or equivalent #### Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click [here](https://careersatagoda.com/interview/)to learn how interviewing at Agoda works. ### **Discover more about working at Agoda** * Agoda Careers[https://careersatagoda.com](https://careersatagoda.com/) * Facebook[https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/](https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/) * LinkedIn[https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda) * YouTube[https://www.youtube.com/agodalife](https://www.youtube.com/agodalife) **Equal Opportunity Employer** At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics. We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our [privacy policy](https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement). **Disclaimer** We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee. ## Apply Now Senior Product Manager (Japanese Speaking) – Bangkok or Tokyo Based Are you open to relocate to Bangkok or Japan? Are you open to an Individual Contributor position? Do you have strong data skills and a technical background (e.g. SQL, Python, R, or equivalent)? Do you as a candidate have a personal relationship with a current Agoda employee? If yes, please indicate how you know the employee? What is the employee’s name? Are you presently employed by any company within the Booking Holdings group, including but not limited to Kayak, OpenTable, Booking.com, Rental Cars, RocketMiles, FareHarbor, HotelsCombined, CheapFlights, Momondo, Priceline, or Getaroom? In which country/region are you currently based? Do you allow us to provide you TEXT/SMS updates of your interview process? We may engage with a service provider to do so. How did you hear about this job? Are you proficient in either of these languages at a business level? Do you agree to Agoda’s use of personal data from your application to improve our recruitment experience? We may collaborate and share your data with third-party providers for recruitment purposes and you may ask to remove your data at any time. We collect your gender information for diversity, equity & inclusion monitoring purposes. It is entirely voluntary to answer the question below. By choosing “prefer not to disclose”, your candidacy will not be impacted. To avoid actual or perceived impairment of our parent company’s independent auditor – Deloitte and to comply with applicable regulations of Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States, we need to seek approvals from our parent company before starting the interview process. With this, please confirm if you are currently or formerly have been associated with Deloitte or any of its subsidiary entities at any time including but not limited to any time as a direct employee, director, contractor, major shareholder, intern etc.? Email me about other job openings within the Booking Holding’s entities and recruitment-related newsletters
At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. The People Team is a purveyor of opportunity, searching the globe for the most talented individuals and offering them an open, collaborative workplace. By prioritizing skill and potential, we have cultivated a powerful assembly of professionals through our drive for equal opportunity and diversity. We make the move to Agoda a breeze with assisted onboarding programs, and we continue to support and enrich our thousands of Agoda employees through individual growth with outstanding learning programs and talent development practices. .Our development of incredible benefits has ensured everyone can stay strong, healthy, and happy during their time at Agoda. Leading ambitious changes and making a positive impact in the lives of the employees, the People Team is a crucial and rewarding part of the Agoda family. We are currently seeking to hire a Senior Consultant, Culture, Engagement and Organizational Performance. This role is based in our Bangkok office as part of the Agoda People Development and Performance team. We are a team of professionals who provide systems and data-driven insights to measure, refine, and scale capability development from the individual employee to organizational level, without taking ownership away from employees and their managers. This role has a global reach. The objective of this role is understanding and addressing complex organizational challenges with a view to expanding and refining organizational capability at Agoda while ensuring that managerial and people processes support our business objectives. This role allows for unbridled curiosity towards the functioning of the organization and how we can continuously improve. We think about developing capability in broad terms beyond traditional learning and performance management, considering how we define roles and organizational structures, career progression, tools and systems that impact employee experience, engagement, and more. We consider all factors that impact employee and team capability and performance and work collaboratively to develop successful solutions. You will partner with senior managers and subject matter experts for program design, development, and implementation. You will report progress and insights to our most senior management. In This Role, You’ll Get To * Work closely with senior stakeholders and colleagues on developing their teams to achieve ambitious business strategies, e.g., new ways to engage with partners, product innovation models, building culture and organization structure, and the necessary work to maintain high standards of performance and high employee engagement * Use data to inform strategy, track and measure impact of programs tied to business output * Provide proactive analysis of data to identify patterns and provide actionable recommendations * Present analysis and insights to senior leadership on relevant talent strategies e.g.: * Patterns of employee behavior such as attrition, promotion, performance management outcomes, * Employee sentiment surveys * Demographic patterns * Employ innovative methods to scale capability, that go beyond traditional learning, including role and organizational design, process and tools improvement, various learning modalities, etc. * Be a trusted advisor to leadership and play a critical role in enhancing their effectiveness through assessment, feedback and coaching * Promote People compliance and operations to minimize regulatory violations and prevent rework * Lead organizational change initiatives that strengthen adoption of new ways of working, improve employee engagement, and enable sustainable performance outcomes * Apply change management, stakeholder engagement, and communication strategies to help teams navigate transformation and embed lasting behavioral and cultural change. What You’ll Need to Succeed * 8+ years of experience in strategic or management consulting and/or relevant experience in Talent Management and People operations at a multi-national organization * Undergraduate degree from a top university expected, advanced degrees welcome * Acute business acumen and understanding of how organizational structures and dynamics relate to execution * Facilitating and coaching with an ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences * Ability to bring business perspectives and facilitate outcomes is critical, and will be magnified with rich experience in HR, particularly in organizational design, onboarding, compensation, business consulting, and data analysis * Excellent judgement, self-motivated, curious, and trustworthy * Strong problem-solving and ability to work with data to identify patterns and generate actionable insights * Excellent communication skills and experience in meeting and presenting to senior executives * Ownership mindset and ability to meet tight deadlines with a logical, methodical approach to prioritizing tasks and responsibilities. * Utmost discretion, confidentiality, and professional ethics * Ability to thrive in a multicultural environment * Ability to effectively handle ambiguity and adapt in a constantly changing business environment * Display of humility, flexibility, excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to lead critical conversations is paramount. * Flexibility and a sense of humor are a must ****This role is Based in Bangkok**** Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click [here](https://careersatagoda.com/interview/)to learn how interviewing at Agoda works.
At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. **Get To Know Our Team:** The People Team is a purveyor of opportunity, searching the globe for the most talented individuals and offering them an open, collaborative workplace. By prioritizing skill and potential, we have cultivated a powerful assembly of professionals through our drive for equal opportunity and diversity. We make the move to Agoda a breeze with assisted onboarding programs, and we continue to support and enrich our thousands of Agoda employees through individual growth with outstanding learning programs and various means of assistance. Our development of incredible benefits has ensured everyone can stay strong, healthy, and happy during their time at Agoda. Leading ambitious changes and making a positive impact in the lives of the employees, the People Team is a crucial and rewarding part of the Agoda family. **The Opportunity:** As a senior member of our high-performing Global Payroll team based in Bangkok, you will play a critical role in driving payroll excellence, governance, and transformation across our international payroll operations. Reporting to the Payroll Manager, the Payroll Senior Partner will have end-to-end ownership of payroll operations for assigned countries or regions, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant payroll delivery. In addition to managing complex payroll operations, you will act as a subject-matter expert, support strategic payroll initiatives, lead process improvements and transformation projects, and provide guidance to Payroll Partners within the team. You will partner closely with People, Finance, Tax, Legal, Treasury, People Systems, and external payroll vendors to strengthen controls, improve employee experience, and build scalable global payroll processes. **What You’ll Do:** * Own end-to-end payroll delivery for assigned countries or regions, ensuring payroll is processed accurately, on time, and in compliance with local statutory and regulatory requirements. * Lead monthly payroll activities, including validation of payroll inputs and outputs, variance analysis, statutory payments, funding requirements, and payroll sign-off. * Manage complex payroll accounting activities, including payroll GL reconciliation, payroll funding reconciliation, vendor invoice validation, accruals, and issue resolution. * Act as the primary payroll subject-matter expert and escalation point for complex payroll, compliance, accounting, and employee-related matters. * Manage and govern payroll vendors against contractual obligations, SLAs, KPIs, quality standards, and regulatory requirements, driving corrective actions where necessary. * Build strong relationships with payroll vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure risks, issues, and dependencies are identified and resolved proactively. * Lead payroll implementations, migrations, integrations, vendor transitions, system upgrades, and new-country payroll setups while ensuring operational continuity and minimal employee impact. * Partner with People Systems, Finance, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Rewards, HR Operations, and other People teams to design and implement scalable payroll processes, controls, and policies. * Lead payroll readiness activities for new entities, acquisitions, reorganizations, legal entity changes, and other business transformation initiatives. * Identify payroll compliance risks and work with relevant stakeholders to implement appropriate mitigation and controls. * Own and drive process improvement, automation, standardization, and operational excellence initiatives across assigned payrolls. * Perform detailed payroll analytics, trend analysis, root-cause analysis, and variance reviews to identify risks and opportunities for improvement. * Support payroll forecasting, budgeting, cash-flow planning, and funding requirements in partnership with Finance and Treasury. * Lead and support internal, external, statutory, and SOX audits, ensuring documentation, controls, and remediation actions are completed within agreed timelines. * Develop and maintain payroll SOPs, controls, process documentation, governance frameworks, and operational dashboards. * Provide guidance, coaching, and day-to-day support to Payroll Partners, helping build payroll capability and knowledge across the team. * Support the Payroll Manager with operational governance, workload prioritization, risk management, stakeholder updates, and strategic payroll initiatives. * Represent Payroll in cross-functional projects and forums and effectively communicate payroll risks, decisions, and recommendations to senior stakeholders. * Drive a strong employee-focused payroll experience by ensuring payroll inquiries and escalations are handled professionally, accurately, and within agreed service levels. **Required Qualifications:** * Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field. * At least 5–7 years of end-to-end payroll and/or payroll accounting experience, preferably within a large, international, fast-paced organization. * Strong experience managing multi-country payroll across APAC, Europe, NAM, or multiple international regions. * Strong knowledge of payroll operations, payroll accounting, statutory compliance, taxation, social security, payroll controls, and payroll funding processes. * Proven experience independently managing complex payrolls and resolving payroll, compliance, vendor, and employee escalations. * Demonstrated experience leading payroll migrations, implementations, integrations, vendor transitions, legal entity changes, or transformation projects. * Strong payroll vendor management experience, including SLA/KPI governance, performance management, issue escalation, and service improvement. * Proven ability to lead process improvement, standardization, automation, and control enhancement initiatives. * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to perform payroll variance analysis, root-cause analysis, and identify operational risks. * Good understanding of payroll accounting, GL reconciliation, accruals, payroll funding, vendor invoices, forecasting, and budgeting. * Experience supporting internal/external audits and working within a strong governance and controls environment. * Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across People, Finance, Tax, Legal, Treasury, Technology, and external partners. * Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex payroll topics clearly to both operational and senior stakeholders. * Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and other productivity tools. * Experience with Workday and global payroll platforms is preferred. * Experience with payroll analytics, automation, reporting tools, or Power BI would be an advantage. * Ability to coach and support junior team members and contribute to building a high-performing payroll team. * Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities and payroll deadlines simultaneously. * Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, multicultural, and continuously evolving global environment. * Demonstrates resilience, ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to remain effective under pressure. * Maintains a high level of discretion, confidentiality, integrity, and professional ethics.
Agoda has experienced dramatic growth. As the company grows and attracts more talent, Agoda seeks to hire a self-motivated, dynamic Global Mobility Specialist to help build our ability to provide high-quality customer service for our employees around the world. We expect the successful candidate to bring prior knowledge, quantitative acumen, and relevant immigration experience to the role. The Global Mobility Specialist plays a critical role in delivering a smooth, reliable, and positive employee experience for new hires and internal transfers relocating into Thailand. This role owns day-to-day immigration operations, supports stakeholders with expert guidance, and actively contributes to process improvement initiatives. **What you’ll do** * Manage and coordinate Thailand immigration process for expatriate employees, new hires, relocation, and assignment into Thailand * Deliver immigration services accurately and on time, ensuring compliance with regulations and agreed service levels * Advise and support employees and stakeholders on immigration requirements, processes, and timelines * Ensure expatriates receive clear, sufficient, and accurate information throughout the visa and work permit journey * Proactively manage issues and escalations, involving the right stakeholders to ensure timely and effective resolution * Take ownership of assigned tasks and processes, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, and employee experience * Interpret immigration regulations, internal policies, and guidelines to recommend appropriate and compliant solutions * Contribute to the development, documentation, and implementation of process improvements and standard workflows * Collaborate with cross-functional teams, vendors, and authorities to support people services and transformation initiatives * Support and mentor junior team members to meet performance and quality expectations * Contribute to team collaboration, knowledge sharing, and People team initiatives As part of a dynamic and evolving People team, the successful candidate will have opportunities over time to expand scope into broader employee lifecycle activities, including additional mobility services and global immigration support. **What you’ll need to succeed** * Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification * Excellent command of English and Thai, with the ability to communicate professionally with Thailand government authorities and global embassies * Min. 7-year experience in Thailand immigration, with experience in a BOI-registered company strongly preferred * Strong attention to detail and accuracy, with a high standard of compliance and documentation quality * Proven problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret policies and guidelines to determine appropriate and practical solutions * Experience in shared services, operations, or process improvement environments is a strong plus * Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a clear customer-service mindset and ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment * Ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders to reach realistic, compliant, and mutually acceptable outcomes * Demonstrates professionalism, sound judgment, and a high level of discretion, confidentiality, and ethical integrity
At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. ## Get to know our team In Product, ideas come alive. The world moves fast, and our culture is built on ownership, speed, and minimal bureaucracy. This is the environment that empowers you to make decisions, move quickly, and do what you believe is right. Our Product Managers move fast, learn from failure, and continuously iterate. As a product-centric organization, we work cross-functionally to build products from conception to launch, bringing together engineering, design, data, and business teams. Agoda Product Managers work closely with executive leadership and have high visibility across the organization, with direct impact on the company’s growth and strategy. We put travelers first and aim to create exceptional travel experiences through innovative product thinking. ## The opportunity This role is based in Bangkok/Seoul based. Our Senior Product Managers are analytical, hands-on, and highly data-driven. They are responsible for building products end-to-end, using analysis, experimentation, and rapid iteration to create solutions that are tailored to traveler needs. As our next Senior Product Manager, Localization (Korea Market), you will define product strategy and drive execution for experiences serving Korean travelers. You will partner closely with senior cross-functional stakeholders to identify opportunities, build impactful products, and deliver high-quality solutions for the Korea market. You will work with dedicated engineering resources that you help prioritize and allocate. We expect you to be hands-on, spend meaningful time with your SCRUM teams, and bring strong product judgment, experimentation mindset, and execution rigor. This role offers the opportunity to shape localized experiences at scale and influence how Agoda serves one of its key markets. This is an Individual Contributor role. ## In this role, you’ll get to * Develop a deep understanding of the online travel ecosystem, market dynamics, competitive landscape, and user needs in the Korea market * Define, build, launch, and optimize products and features through testing, experimentation, and rapid iteration * Drive localization initiatives that improve the experience for Korean travelers across the product journey * Partner closely with Engineering, Marketing, Legal, Design, Analytics, and other cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact solutions * Translate market insights, customer needs, and business priorities into clear product strategies and roadmaps * Use data and quantitative analysis to identify opportunities, prioritize effectively, and measure product performance * Collaborate across regions, product areas, and functions to solve complex problems and drive meaningful business impact ## What you’ll need to succeed * Bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline * Proven ability to use analytics and quantitative methods to inform strategy, prioritization, and decision-making * Strong data skills, with the ability to independently analyze performance and generate actionable insights * Excellent communication skills in either Korean with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and influence a wide range of stakeholders * Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and influence a wide range of stakeholders * Proven experience in Korea market localization, with a deep understanding of Korean consumers, market dynamics, and local product requirements * Experience developing, launching, and optimizing products in a fast-paced environment * Experience leading product strategy, go-to-market thinking, and cross-functional product development discussions * Strong entrepreneurial mindset and analytical problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complexity and drive change * Hands-on approach with a strong sense of ownership and execution ## It’s great if you have * MBA or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field * Experience with data tools such as SQL, Python, R, or equivalent #### Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click [here](https://careersatagoda.com/interview/)to learn how interviewing at Agoda works. ### **Discover more about working at Agoda** * Agoda Careers[https://careersatagoda.com](https://careersatagoda.com/) * Facebook[https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/](https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/) * LinkedIn[https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda) * YouTube[https://www.youtube.com/agodalife](https://www.youtube.com/agodalife) **Equal Opportunity Employer** At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. 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