Senior Talent Acquisition Partner (Legal)

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: 

In the age of rapid technological advancement, the travel industry is more dynamic and complex than ever. Agoda’s Legal team is uniquely positioned to navigate this evolving global regulatory landscape. With a proactive mindset, the team tackles challenges head-on, providing decisive, solutions-oriented support while collaborating closely with multiple departments. We value out-of-the-box thinkers who are grounded in strong ethics and legal expertise, ensuring Agoda achieves the right results — the right way.

Supporting this mission is our People Team — a true purveyor of opportunity. We search the globe for exceptional talent and foster an open, collaborative workplace built on diversity, equal opportunity, and potential. From seamless onboarding programs to continuous learning and development initiatives, we empower our employees to grow and thrive. Through comprehensive benefits and meaningful support systems, we ensure our people stay strong, healthy, and happy throughout their journey at Agoda.

Together, our Legal and People teams play a critical role in driving Agoda’s success — protecting the business while empowering the talent that makes it all possible. As a Talent Acquisition Partner for the Legal team, you will sit at the intersection of these two impactful functions, helping us attract outstanding legal professionals who will shape Agoda’s future.

The Opportunity:

Join our dynamic team as a Talent Acquisition Partner, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our workforce. Dive into the heart of recruitment, working collaboratively to source, screen, and connect with top-tier candidates. Your journey will involve close collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure that Agoda attracts and secures the brightest talents. This is more than a job; it's a chance for you to shape the future of our team and contribute to our success from day one. Seize the opportunity to build and implement best practices, making an immediate impact on our talent acquisition strategy

In this role, you will focus on hiring for a variety of legal and compliance positions, including but not limited to Legal Operations, Contract Management, Corporate Governance, Compliance, Employment, Regulatory/Consumer Disputes, Product and Commercial Legal Counsel roles. 

Join us and be a key player in bringing exceptional individuals on board to drive Agoda's continued success!

In this Role, you'll get to:

• Partner with hiring managers to understand their business objectives and hiring needs. Develop the recruitment strategy and ways to build a talent pipeline accordingly. 

• Own the full-cycle recruitment process ensuring a seamless, uniform, and positive candidate experience. 

• Build your network with high-potential talents to ensure that the business has access to the best talent in the market, working comfortably on a global level. 

• Engage in creative talent, mapping efforts for the purposes of building our candidate pipeline as well as to provide market intelligence to the business. 

• Work on recruitment projects and training to improve the standard for hiring within the organization. 

What you'll Need to Succeed:

• 6-8+ years of recruiting experience in end-to-end recruitment  

• Demonstrated experience recruiting for legal roles, ideally within an in-house legal team for companies ideally in technology companies and platforms or for clients in the legal sectors

• Ability to influence and partner with senior leadership across the company using a data driven approach. 

• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements and target candidate profiles, while providing guidance on market expectations, job leveling, and competitive compensation packages to secure top talent

• Experience closing candidates at all levels from early career to senior level candidates and negotiating complex compensation packages. 

• Strong computer skills and ability to work with different tools such as LinkedIn, Job Boards, Greenhouse, MS Office Suite, Power point and Excel

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a strong ability to influence and “sell” opportunities, build trust with senior candidates, and guide them through jurisdictional changes and international relocation decisions

• Ability to be proactive, identify areas of improvement, and drive process improvement initiatives.  

• Highly passionate about recruitment 

It's Great if you have: 

• Knowledge of recruiting and/or sourcing in APAC region 

• Experience hiring for legal professionals

• Familiarity with legal qualifications, certifications, and the unique requirements of legal and compliance roles

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.