Associate Director

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 Customer Experience Group (CEG) of Agoda serves our customers and partners to deliver satisfying results. This is accomplished with the support of our Global Service Verticals (GSV) team — the backbone of CEG’s global operations. Our team includes project managers, process owners, analysts, and talent management. Together we improve the quality and efficiency of our customer and partner support processes.

We are a data-driven environment, eager to move fast and learn through experimentation. A clear focus on supporting our customers and partners is bolstered by a strong, entrepreneurial culture that enriches us and Agoda’s business performance.

This role sits in the B2B Partnerships and Automation team, part of CEG’s Global Service Verticals. The team drives end-to-end customer experience and process improvements, and scales impact through automation, AI, and tooling across customer-facing and agent-facing journeys.

• Lead the Project Management Team and its Portfolio: Own the PM team end-to-end: vision, structure, ways of working, hiring, coaching, performance, and succession of project managers (and people managers on the team, where applicable).
• Set long-term direction and annual/quarterly OKRs for the team, aligned with CEG and Agoda-wide priorities.
• Own the outcomes of the team’s portfolio of global initiatives — prioritization, quality, impact, risk, and delivery.
• Prioritize and drive work that moves mission-critical metrics: customer satisfaction (e.g. CSAT), service levels, automation quality, productivity, cost efficiency, and employee/agent engagement.
• Ensure CEG project readiness to support Agoda’s new business and product initiatives by working closely with Product, Data, Strategic Partnerships, Finance, Legal, Operations/Support, and other teams.
• Drive Automation, AI, and Continuous Innovation: Identify opportunities to leverage automation, AI, and tooling across customer and agent journeys (e.g. self-service, workflow automation, AI quality testing, agent guidance).
• Partner with Product, Technology, Data, and CEG teams to design, prioritize, and implement solutions — from experimentation through global rollout and impact measurement.
• Oversee configuration and governance of operational flows and low-code/automation tools so solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with CX standards.
• Act as a natural innovator: reframe problems, pitch new approaches (tech/AI and non-tech process), and systematically improve how the team and CEG work — not only execute a pre-agreed roadmap.
• Shape Process, CX, and Operational Support Improvements: Lead project work that improves CEG end-to-end processes across the post-booking journey, removing pain points and improving operational performance through targeted initiatives and data-driven insight.
• Own and evolve frameworks and roadmaps for how we continuously improve internal SOPs and related processes, balancing CX/PX outcomes vs efficiency/cost.
• Drive strategic project initiatives such as localization support in key growth markets, regulatory work, and operational (CS) support and optimization — in close partnership with ops and commercial teams, without taking line ownership of those functions.
• Define clear problem statements and business cases; prioritize customer and partner pain points against success metrics.
• Partner, Stakeholder, and Commercial Interface: Build trusted relationships with senior leaders across CEG, Agoda, Booking Holdings, and other functions; influence priorities and decisions as the owner of this PM team’s agenda.
• Be a primary project counterpart for core partners and commercial stakeholders: understand commercial context, surface operable trade-offs, and land cross-functional alignment.
• Present to CEG senior leadership with confidence and minimal supervision; act as the go-to person for this team’s domain.
• Monitor milestones, risks, and dependencies; troubleshoot issues; implement mitigation — remaining the ultimate owner of the portfolio’s outcomes.

• Experience & Background: At least 8–10+ years in project/program management, with a track record of leading teams and delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong strategic problem-solving and hands-on data-driven execution skills.
• Excellent project management skills, with experience in agile methodologies and tools.
• Senior stakeholder and partner management experience, with the ability to influence and align diverse groups.
• Commercial acumen and experience working with commercial and partner stakeholders.
• Experience in customer experience, operations, or support functions is a plus.
• Experience with automation, AI, and tooling initiatives is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, data-driven environment.