Principal Product Manager

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:

This role is SINGAPORE-BASED, Our Principal Product Managers are analytical, data-driven product leaders who independently drive large, complex initiatives end-to-end. In this role, you will lead the Trip Planner team, shaping a multi-quarter to multi-year vision for how travelers plan and manage their whole trip with Agoda.

As our Trip Planner Principal Product Manager, you will lead a group of Product Managers and partner closely with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and business functions to define strategy and align stakeholders around a clear roadmap for the trip canvas and cross-product travel experiences.

You will have dedicated engineering capacity that you are accountable for directing and prioritizing, and are expected to be hands-on with your teams, with strong technical understanding of Agoda’s systems. You will champion a culture that balances traveler experience with KPI optimization and quality, driving cross-team initiatives that meaningfully improve our Trip Planner product.

Beyond your immediate scope, you are an agent of change and a culture carrier: you initiate better ways of working and you help develop other PMs by modeling Agoda’s product principles and leadership behaviors.

In this role, you’ll get to: 

• Lead and develop a group of Product Managers, providing clear direction, coaching, and actionable feedback.
• Shape product vision and roadmap aligned with Agoda’s business goals.
• Analyze the online travel ecosystem, markets, competitive landscape and user requirements.
• Conceptualize, launch and optimize products and features, experiment, test their performance and iterate quickly.
• Work collaboratively with Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning engineering, Marketing, Legal and UX teams on cutting-edge technologies.
• Develop innovative solutions to some of the world’s difficult problems by collaborating as needed across regions, product areas, and functions.

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
• Strong data skills 
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written in English) with proven ability to convey complex messages clearly and with conviction to different stakeholders
• Experience developing and launching products
• Experience leading global product vision, go-to-market strategy and design discussions.
• Experience leading and developing a team of Product Managers.
• Experience in travel planning, trip management, or itinerary products (e.g., trip planners, travel assistants, or similar multi-product experiences).
• Understanding of generative AI and machine learning concepts.
• Entrepreneurial and analytical skills; effective at breaking down complex problems and driving and managing change
• 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