Lead Product Designer, Connected Trip(Bangkok - Based, Relocation Provided)

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.

This role is BANGKOK-BASED, RELOCATION PROVIDED.

About Agoda

Agoda is a leading global travel booking platform, part of Booking Holdings. Headquartered in Bangkok, we connect travelers with 2.5M+ properties worldwide. With a team of 4,000+ people from over 90 nationalities, we embrace diversity, experimentation, and ownership to build innovative travel experiences.

Get to Know Our Design Team:

The Design team is a diverse group of product designers and researchers that help to build Agoda’s products from our home office in Bangkok. Being a product-driven company, we constantly partner with product managers and engineers to understand user problems and design workflows, interactions, and visual interfaces.

This is a great time to join a team that’s small enough to be scrappy and hands on, yet big enough to influence change and product strategy.

There’s always room to grow here. As a Product Design Lead, you can deepen your craft through complex problem-solving and systems thinking, or expand your leadership by mentoring others, driving strategy, and leading cross-functional initiatives. This is a great time to join a team that’s small enough to be scrappy and hands on, yet big enough to influence change and product strategy.

We’re building the next generation of travel experiences helping travellers from the moment inspiration sparks to the moment they return home. Join our design team to help shape how users engage Agoda to plan their trip.

The Role

We’re looking for a Product Design Lead to join our Connected Trip team and shape Agoda’s trip‑centric, AI‑powered trip planning experience. This role blends hands-on craft, product design strategy and team leadership, managing a small group of talented designers.

You will lead the UX strategy for AI-powered travel assistants, personalized recommendations and trip planning tools. You will collaborate closely with Product and Engineering, and play a key role in evolving Agoda’s design culture across the organisation

What You’ll Do

Design & Execution

• Lead the end-to-end design of AI-powered trip planning experiences across web and app.
• Co-create with Product and Research to define long‑term vision and translate it into executable plans and ensure delivery.
• Create prototypes and flows that balance clarity, trust, and speed for our users.
• Drive UX and visual design quality within your scope, while aligning with Agoda’s broader vision.
• Partner with Design Leadership, Product managers, Engineers, Researchers, Analysts and Content designers to shape what we build and how we build it.
• Use data-driven insights, research, and industry best practices to align on design direction.

Leadership & People

• Manage and mentor a small team, focusing on growth and creativity.
• Provide regular feedback, run critiques, and support career development.
• Help scale design culture, systems, and quality through org-wide design initiatives.
• Act as a thought partner to senior stakeholders across Product, Data Science, and Engineering.

What You’ll Bring

• 7+ years of experience in product or interaction design, with proven hands-on craft.
• Experience defining a long‑term design vision and translating it into executable plans.
• A strong portfolio showing user-centered thinking and high-quality execution.
• Ability to simplify complexity through clear information architecture and interaction flows.
• Experience leading design discussions and collaborating cross-functionally.
• Mentorship or people management experience.
• A data-informed mindset with experience using research, analytics, and best practices to guide design decisions and validate ideas with cross-functional teams.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with LLMs, natural language UX, or multimodal interactions.
• Background in voice UX, multimodal interfaces, or customer support tools
• Experience with localisation and designing for multilingual audiences
• Familiarity with personalisation engines or recommendation systems
• Prior experience in travel, e-commerce, or large-scale B2C platforms
• Prior experience in designing for conversational interfaces, chatbots, or AI-powered systems.

Why This Role

This is a rare chance to combine craft leadership and small-team management in a high-impact product area. You’ll influence the direction and shape the trip planning experience that extends Agoda’s ecosystem from a place to book, to a place where we support every step of the trip journey.

Join us to help build our Connected Trip vision.

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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.

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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.