Product Leader, Flights

**About Agoda**

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with a global network of 4.7M hotels and holiday properties worldwide, plus flights, activities, and more. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 7,100+ employees representing 95+ nationalities in 27 markets foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

**Our Purpose - **Bridging the World Through Travel**

We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness.
We are a skillful, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone.

**About Agoda**

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with more than 2.5 million accommodations globally. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 6,000+ employees representing 90+ nationalities foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability of our customers to experience the world.

**Get to know our team**:
In Product, ideas come alive. The world is moving fast, so our culture empowers ownership and mínimal 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 the engineering and business worlds. Agoda Product Managers work closely with executive leadership and have high visibility among the C-suite; they have a direct impact on Agoda's growth and strategy. The product puts our travelers first and delivers that special travel experience in the most creative expression.

**The opportunity**:
We're looking for a **Product Leader **for the **Flight Product team**. This role is **Bangkok-based **and is an **individual contributor role**.

The Flight Product Team at Agoda is seeking a Product Leader with a **strong background in complex platform**s and **air distribution**, an empathic understanding of customer struggles, and strong stakeholder management skills. **Background in the travel industry, especially in the flight space is a strong plus **(Flight distribution, GDS, IATA, booking lifecycle, supply optimization, user experience in booking and post booking area).**

The Product Leader will be responsible for the global strategy, roadmap implementation and growth of our flight business. You'll work with internal & external stakeholders and platform customers to resolve the most relevant, dial-moving features. You'll then partner with the technology team to deliver innovative scalable solutions on time and on target.

**In this role, you'll get to**:

- Develop and execute the product roadmap for the Flight Platform, aligning it with the company's overall strategic goals and vision.
- Partner with customers of the Flight Platform to understand their needs and account for those needs as you build out solutions with your team.
- Conceptualize, launch, and optimize flight products and features, experiment, test their performance, and iterate quickly.
- Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and customer insights to identify market opportunities and user needs**.**
- Define higher-level objectives and key results and translate those into requirements, and stories, establish landmarks, and lead the execution of projects across multiple teams.
- Spend time in quantitative data monitoring of critical metrics around platform health and feature quality, and understand the relationship between those platform metrics, key business results, and customer happiness.
- Work collaboratively with Engineering, Marketing, Content, Flight commercial & supply operation 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**:

- 7+ years of proven track record as a product manager, preferably in the flight/travel industry with a focus on flight platforms.
- Possesses a deep understanding of the travel industry, particularly in the flight sector
- 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