Talent Acquistion Partner (Tokyo-based)

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:   The People Team is a purveyor of opportunity, searching the globe for the most talented individuals and offering them an open, collaborative workplace. By prioritizing skill and potential, we have cultivated a powerful assembly of professionals through our drive for equal opportunity and diversity. We make the move to Agoda a breeze with assisted onboarding programs, and we continue to support and enrich our thousands of Agoda employees through individual growth with outstanding learning programs and various means of assistance. Our development of incredible benefits has ensured everyone can stay strong, healthy, and happy during their time at Agoda. Leading ambitious changes and making a positive impact in the lives of our employees, the People Team is a crucial and rewarding part of the Agoda family.   The Opportunity  We are looking for a Talent Acquisition Partner who will help us strategically yet grow our world-class team in India and other countries across the globe. You should be passionate about recruiting first-rate talents that will add value to the business. Partnering with senior management (including Country Director/SR Director/AD), you will be critical to creating a seamless recruiting process to help Agoda scale our business globally.  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

Must-Have-8+ years of end-to-end recruitment experience, ideally in a fast-growing technology, product, or similarly dynamic environment.-Strong stakeholder management skills, including clear communication, proactive updates, expectation management, and the ability to influence hiring managers and senior leaders using data and market insights.-Exceptional sourcing skills, with a proven ability to build strong top-of-funnel pipelines in challenging and competitive talent markets. -A strong problem-solving mindset, with the ability to identify root causes, propose practical solutions, and create clear action plans when pipelines are challenging.-Experience hiring across different levels, from early-career talent through to leadership roles, including negotiating complex compensation packages and successfully closing candidates.-A data-driven approach, with the ability to analyze recruitment metrics, generate useful insights, and translate them into recommendations for Japan leaders.-Excellent communication, listening, presentation, and relationship-building skills.-Strong proficiency with recruitment and productivity tools, such as LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, Greenhouse, and Microsoft Office.-A proactive and continuous-improvement mindset, with the ability to identify opportunities and drive recruitment process improvements.-A passion for recruitment and delivering an excellent candidate experience. - Proficiency in Japanese and English is required Good-to-Have-Experience in both agency and in-house recruitment environments.-Experience partnering with senior leadership on strategic recruitment initiatives.-Experience using recruitment data to identify market trends and inform workforce or hiring strategies.-Proven ability to take initiative and lead cross-functional projects from planning through to completion. #Tokyo

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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.