Senior Regional Manager, Customer/ Partner Operations (Based in Seoul)

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Seoul, KOR
In-Office
Senior level
Software • Travel
The Role
Lead multi-site, multi-country customer and partner operations across the region, owning service quality, efficiency, resiliency, and cost. Translate strategy into a 12–18 month regional roadmap, sponsor cross-site initiatives, scale tools and best practices, strengthen resiliency playbooks, align stakeholders, and develop regional leadership and talent pipelines.
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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.

About the Team   

Agoda’s Customer Experience Group delivers critical support to customers and partners across markets, channels, and business lines. As our operations scale in complexity, Senior Regional Managers play a pivotal role in ensuring regional resiliency, standardization, and sustained performance across multiple sites and partners.   
  
About the Role   

The Senior Regional Manager is accountable for end-to-end performance of a regional customer/partner operations area, typically spanning multiple countries, sites, or vendor partners. This role translates company strategy into a cohesive regional roadmap, balances cross site tradeoffs, and ensures consistent, high quality service delivery at scale.   

You will act as the regional authority on customer operations performance, risks, and improvement initiatives, while developing strong leadership benches and resilient operating models.   


Key Responsibilities
   

Regional & Operational Ownership  

  • Lead multi-site, multi-country customer operations (including inhouse and BPO partners where applicable) 
  • Own end to end regional outcomes, including service quality, efficiency, resiliency, and cost to serve 
  • Balance cross site tradeoffs across capacity, language coverage, channel mix, routing, and vendor strategy    

Strategy & Roadmap   

  • Translate CEG strategy into a 12–18 month regional roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that deliver measurable customer and business impact 
  • Anticipate demand shifts (seasonality, launches, policy or regulatory changes) and lead proactive regional adjustments 
  • Sponsor and govern cross site initiatives to ensure consistency and scalability   

Improvement, Innovation & Resiliency   

  • Scale adoption of tools, technologies, and best practices across sites 
  • Institutionalize experimentation standards, operational rigor, and learning across the regional leadership team 
  • Strengthen regional resiliency through standardized playbooks (e.g. surge, BCP, knowledge governance)   

Stakeholder Leadership   

  • Serve as the regional “go to” for customer operations performance, risks, and initiatives 
  • Bring together WFM, QA, Training, Analytics, Product/Tech, Policy, and Commercial partners to land regionwide solutions 
  • Communicate regional performance, scenarios, and recommendations to senior stakeholders with minimal supervision   

People & Organization Leadership   

  • Lead through Regional Managers and/or Vendor Managers, setting a high bar for performance management and leadership capability 
  • Design and evolve regional org structures, language pools, and shift strategies to meet KPIs 
  • Build successor ready pipelines, enable cross site talent mobility, and develop future senior leaders 
  • Address underperformance decisively, fairly, and in line with Agoda values   

What You’ll Bring   

  • Must have excellent spoken and written Korean skills, and Business level of English
  • Extensive demonstrated experience leading largescale, multisite or multi-country operations 
  • Proven ability to own regional outcomes and manage complexity across markets and partners 
  • Strategic thinking combined with operational execution excellence with strong analytical and experimentation mindset   
  • Demonstrated ability and willingness to dive into detail to understand issue complexity, propose actionable plans, and collaborate effectively with stakeholders
  • Advanced stakeholder management and influencing skills, including Senior Leadership exposure 
  • A track record of developing leaders and building resilient organizations   

Nice to Have   

  • Experience managing outsourced/vendor operations at scale
  • Deep exposure to regulatory-complex or high-growth markets  

Why Agoda  

  • Hybrid Work 
  • Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives
  • Annual discretionary performance bonus
  • Health insurance and other locally competitive benefits
  • Agoda travel discounts and special rates on accommodation and related products
  • Work from anywhere for up to 30 days per year
  • An inclusive, international work environment where your ideas and feedback are valued
  • Agoda choice(welfare points)
  • $400 USD allowance to set up your home office(one time payment) 

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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.

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.

Skills Required

  • Excellent spoken and written Korean skills
  • Business-level English
  • Extensive experience leading large-scale, multi-site or multi-country operations
  • Proven ability to own regional outcomes and manage complexity across markets and partners
  • Strategic thinking with operational execution excellence, strong analytical and experimentation mindset
  • Willingness and ability to dive into detail, propose actionable plans, and collaborate with stakeholders
  • Advanced stakeholder management and influencing skills, including Senior Leadership exposure
  • Track record of developing leaders and building resilient organizations
  • Experience managing outsourced/vendor operations at scale
  • Exposure to regulatory-complex or high-growth markets

Agoda Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Agoda and has not been reviewed or approved by Agoda.

  • Flexible Benefits — Flexible allowances like “Agoda Choice” are presented as customizable for health, learning, travel, fitness, or wellness, which can increase perceived value beyond base pay. Reimbursement-style options are also described as usable for a wide range of personal needs, from training to wellness expenses.
  • Healthcare Strength — Health-related coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical and life insurance and, in some places, dental and vision. Mental-health and support resources such as an Employee Assistance Program and unlimited Headspace access are also highlighted.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Hybrid/remote arrangements and a work-from-anywhere style program are positioned as benefits that support work-life balance. Travel-related perks such as employee discounts and automatic Platinum membership add lifestyle value for employees who use the platform.

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The Company
HQ: Singapore
9,211 Employees
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Agoda is transforming travel for millions of customers across the globe. Headquartered in Asia, Agoda is one of the world’s largest online travel platforms. Founded in 2005 and now part of Booking Holdings (Nasdaq:BKNG), Agoda has a network of over 2,900,000 properties worldwide. Our web and mobile products provide a first-rate reservation service in 38 languages that uniquely combines local knowledge and local connections to provide the best deals for business and leisure travelers. Agoda employs over 7,000 professionals from 90 nationalities in locations around the globe. In every department – from engineering to customer experience – we provide an environment rich with creativity, collaboration, and experimentation, and the tools to work faster and smarter. At Agoda, we believe our people are our strength. We work hard and have fun, and we choose people who are dedicated to making things great. For properties seeking partnership with Agoda, visit https://connect.agoda.com

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