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Director of Product for Rocket Travel by Agoda

Agoda International (Hong Kong) Limited

  • Company Industries:Tourism / Travel Agency

Job Information

  • Post Date:2022-09-28
  • Location:Not Specified
  • Employment Type:Full Time
  • Job Function:Admin & HR  Others  Manufacturing  Production Planning / Control  Others  Othe

Job Description



About Agoda

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with more than 2.5 million accommodations globally. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 4,000+ employees representing 90+ nationalities foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

Get to know our team:

In Product, ideas come alive. The world is moving fast so our culture empowers ownership and minimal bureaucracy. That’s the environment that enables you to do what you think is right – and quickly. Our Product Managers move fast, fail, learn, and pivot.

Being a product-centric organization, our team works cross-functionally to build products from conception to launch by bringing together engineering and business worlds. Agoda Product Managers work closely with executive leadership and have high visibility among the C-suite; they have direct impact on Agoda’s growth and strategy. Product puts our travelers first and delivers that special travel experience in the most creative expression.

The opportunity:

Rocket Travel by Agoda is Agoda’s strategic partnerships arm, working with the world’s largest companies to create branded experiences from the first search to check-out from their stay. Our global partnerships range from world-class airlines to international banks, as well large-scale shopping platforms, SuperApps, and the largest travel players in the world. In this role you will w ork within Booking Holdings, the largest online travel company in the world.

This role is  BANGKOK-BASED, RELOCATION PROVIDED.  Our Product Leaders are analytical and data-driven individuals, responsible for building products end-to-end, leading a cross-functional team to build customer-centric products and experiences. As our next Director of Product , you will lead a team of talented Product Managers to build and scale our suite of products for our partners and customers. Y ou will drive product strategy and partner closely with senior leadership cross-functionally to define, build, and deliver the best travel solutions.

Your team will get dedicated engineering resources that you, and only you define and allocate. We expect you to have a hands-on mentality and spend considerable time with your Product and engineering teams, have enthusiasm to develop engineered processes and technologies and apply innovative solutions to make organizational improvements. You’ll partner with senior stakeholders at our partner organizations, solving strategic problems to allow both partners and Rocket to succeed. You can modify *every* system we have in our company to suit their needs.

In this role, you’ll get to:

• Be fully accountable for the success of your product scope, taking ownership of a roadmap that achieves a broad set of business, partner, customer, and quality goals
• Work with our commercial partners and business teams to create innovative traveler experiences and achieve strategic business goals
• Work with engineering to understand timelines, dependencies, and tradeoffs, and provide input on technical roadmap and architecture
• Work with designers to create customer-centric, lovable experiences
• Lead a team of product owners; hire, grow, and mentor them
• Work with senior members of the company collaboratively to communicate and finalize decisions
• Create your own path at an organization growing double-digit percent annually
• Develop innovative solutions to some of the world’s difficult problems by collaborating as needed across regions, product areas, and functions.
• Conceptualize, launch and optimize products and features, experiment, test their performance and iterate quickly.

What you’ll need to succeed:

Bachelor’s degree in technical field (i.e. Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar quantitative discipline).
• Proven ability to leverage analytics and quantitative methods to inform and influence decision-making
Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written in English) with proven ability to convey complex messages clearly and with conviction to different stakeholders
• Extensive experience building products, businesses, and/or organizations, managing through scenarios of evolving ambiguity, resources, and constraints
• Experience leading global product vision, go-to-market strategy and design discussions.
• Entrepreneurial and analytical skills; effective at breaking down complex problems and driving and managing change
• Adopt an empathetic approach towards partners and internally, understanding the inherent tradeoffs in building technology products and building towards a long-term win-win for all parties
• Hands-on mentality

It’s great if you have:

• MBA or Master’s degree in Math, Economics, Computer Science or Statistics
• Data tools – SQL, Python, R, or equivalent

Rocket Travel by agoda is a place where you:

• Work with a group of intrinsically motivated people with a track record for building successful new businesses from scratch.
• Embody curiosity, community, and accountability. We live and build products by these values every day.
• Receive a competitive compensation package , including bonus, potential for equity, and generous benefits. Total Compensation is based on experience
Own decisions and take action that can be implemented in a matter of days (or hours).
• Get inspired and encouraged to vacation faster, with an annual vacation stipend.
• Share your passion for travel with equally adventurous teammates.

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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 .

To all recruitment agencies: Agoda does not accept third party resumes. Please do not send resumes to our jobs alias, Agoda employees or any other organization location. Agoda is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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