Talent Acquisition Partner

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 the Team

Agoda is a digital travel platform headquartered in Asia and part of Booking Holdings. Our technology teams build and operate the products, platforms, and infrastructure that power millions of travel experiences globally.

The Tech Talent Acquisition team plays a critical role in supporting Agoda’s continued growth and innovation. We partner closely with leaders across Engineering, Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and other technology functions to attract and hire exceptional talent from across the region and around the world.

We are a high-performing, collaborative, and globally minded team that values speed, quality, data-driven decision-making, and an outstanding candidate experience. Our work goes beyond filling roles—we help shape Agoda’s talent strategy, strengthen our employer brand, and build the capabilities needed for long-term business success.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner – Tech, you will play a strategic and hands-on role in building Agoda’s technology organization.

You will partner with senior technology leaders and hiring managers to understand business priorities, translate them into effective hiring strategies, and deliver high-quality talent across a range of technical roles. You will manage the full recruitment lifecycle, from workforce planning and talent mapping through to offer negotiation and onboarding partnership.

This role is ideal for an experienced recruiter who is comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth technology environment; understands the technical talent market; and can balance strategic stakeholder partnership with strong execution.

You will also contribute to improving how Agoda hires by using market intelligence, recruitment data, experimentation, and process improvement to raise the standard of talent acquisition across the organization.

In This Role, You’ll Get to

• Partner with senior technology leaders and hiring managers to understand business objectives, workforce plans, team structures, and hiring priorities.
• Translate business needs into clear recruitment strategies, target candidate profiles, sourcing plans, and hiring timelines.
• Own the full-cycle recruitment process for technical and technology leadership roles, ensuring a consistent, efficient, and positive candidate experience.
• Recruit across areas such as Software Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Product, Infrastructure, Cloud, Cybersecurity, DevOps, Architecture, and other technology disciplines.
• Build strong relationships with candidates and develop long-term talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs.
• Conduct proactive sourcing, market mapping, talent identification, and competitor research to strengthen Agoda’s access to high-quality talent.
• Provide hiring managers with market intelligence on talent availability, compensation expectations, role requirements, skills trends, and competitor activity.
• Advise stakeholders on role scope, job requirements, seniority, interview processes, assessment approaches, and candidate calibration.
• Manage complex recruitment processes across multiple locations and jurisdictions, including international hiring and relocation where relevant.
• Assess candidates against both technical requirements and Agoda’s leadership principles, team fit, and long-term potential.
• Lead candidate engagement, closing, offer negotiation, and pre-joining management for senior and hard-to-hire talent.
• Use recruitment data and insights to monitor hiring performance, identify risks, and recommend improvements.
• Contribute to recruitment projects, employer branding initiatives, talent events, sourcing campaigns, interview training, and process improvement programs.
• Collaborate with other Talent Acquisition Partners and cross-functional teams to share market knowledge, improve hiring practices, and deliver a consistent experience across Agoda.
• Represent Agoda externally and help position the company as an employer of choice for technology professionals.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• 8–10+ years of experience in end-to-end talent acquisition, preferably within an in-house environment.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting for technology roles across multiple disciplines and seniority levels.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders and hiring managers in technology, digital, platform, or similarly complex businesses.
• Strong understanding of technical talent markets, particularly within software engineering, data, product, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, or related areas.
• Proven ability to develop and execute talent acquisition strategies in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Experience recruiting senior-level or leadership talent and managing complex candidate engagement and offer processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to challenge, advise, and build trust with senior leaders.
• Ability to use data, market insights, and structured problem-solving to guide recruitment decisions.
• Strong sourcing and talent-mapping capability, including the use of LinkedIn and other recruitment channels.
• Excellent candidate management and closing skills, including the ability to communicate Agoda’s value proposition and secure in-demand talent.
• Experience supporting international recruitment, relocation, or cross-border hiring would be an advantage.
• A proactive, adaptable, and solutions-oriented approach, with a strong bias for action.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Experience using recruitment and productivity tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, applicant tracking systems, job boards, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, and Excel.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to shape the technology organization of one of Asia’s leading digital travel companies.
• A highly collaborative, international, and technology-driven working environment.
• The opportunity to work directly with senior leaders and influence hiring strategy at scale.
• Exposure to a broad range of technical roles, talent markets, and recruitment challenges.
• A culture that values ownership, experimentation, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision-making.
• The chance to make a meaningful impact on both business performance and candidate experience.

Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click here to learn how interviewing at Agoda works.

Discover more about working at Agoda

• Agoda Careers https://careersatagoda.com
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda
• YouTube 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.

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.