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At Taboola, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As we continue to scale across APAC and Greater China, we’re seeking an experienced HR Director, APAC to partner closely with senior Enterprise Sales leaders and shape the people decisions that directly drive commercial success. 

This is a senior, hands-on HR Business Partner role with a regional remit, suited to someone who thrives in lean, high-trust environments and brings strong judgement, close business partnership, and personal ownership to complex people challenges. We want a leader who views AI and automation as the ultimate leverage for HR. You don’t need to be a data scientist, but you should be someone who reads about LLMs, experiments with productivity tools, and dreams of an HR department where technology handles the routine so people can handle the exceptional!

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

• Extensive experience as a senior HR Business Partner or HR Director in APAC, with hands-on exposure to complex, multi-country employee relations and local employment legislation.
• Proven ability to operate as a trusted advisor to senior commercial leaders, influencing people and organisational decisions in fast-paced, matrixed environments.
• Strong judgement and confidence handling sensitive ER matters, including performance management, restructures, investigations, and expat-related issues.
• A pragmatic, execution-focused mindset, comfortable rolling up your sleeves and staying close to leaders and employees day to day.
• Solid commercial acumen, with the ability to connect people decisions directly to business outcomes.
• Tech-Forward Mindset, Maintaining a high level of curiosity regarding AI and automation; comfortable experimenting with new technologies to solve traditional HR challenges and model digital agility for the organization.
• Experience working within global organisations, balancing regional realities with global frameworks, guidance, and precedent.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, able to build credibility quickly, challenge constructively, and navigate differing perspectives.
• Comfort working with lean teams and shared service models, knowing when to partner, escalate, or step in directly.

How you’ll make an impact:

As a HR Director, you will:

• Enable APAC and Greater China Enterprise Sales leaders to make confident, well-judged people decisions by providing trusted, commercially grounded HR partnership.
• Reduce people risk across the region by proactively identifying employee relations themes, addressing issues early, and ensuring decisions align with local labour laws and global guidance.
• Strengthen leadership capability through hands-on coaching, clear advice, and practical support in performance, engagement, and sensitive people matters.
• Bring clarity and consistency to complex, multi-country people decisions by balancing regional realities with global context and precedent.
• Maintain a hands-on, region-wide view of employee relations and people risks across APAC and Greater China, identifying cross-functional themes and emerging issues early.
• Provide sound ER judgement and advice, using local legal knowledge, global guidance, and people data to anticipate issues and drive timely, well-aligned decisions.
• Improve the speed and quality of HR outcomes by reinforcing clear ways of working, escalation paths, and effective collaboration with HRBPs, COEs, and shared services.
• Build trust and stability in a fast-moving environment by staying close to leaders and employees, acting with calm judgement, and following through on outcomes that matter to the business.

Why Taboola?

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

• Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.
• Well-being: Enjoy a range of locally relevant benefits and workplace perks.
• Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
• Work with some of the biggest names: We work with some of the biggest names in the business. Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda.

Ready to realize your potential?

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.-

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About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

Get to Know Our Team

Agoda, part of Booking Holdings, operates at the cutting edge of tech innovation. Work and build LLM-powered features that enable users to seamlessly book flights, hotels, and activities in an all-in-one experience.

Build solutions operating directly in real booking flows at Agoda scale. You’ll have real ownership over how the system is designed, built, and evolved, with the freedom to make meaningful technical and product decisions from day one.

This role is ideal for senior Data Scientists or ML practitioners who enjoy owning complex systems end-to-end and working at the intersection of ML, product, and engineering.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end LLM systems: Design, build, and own LLM-based systems, from understanding user intent to planning multi-step trips and invoking internal systems to search, price, and book.
• Turn ambiguity into production solutions: Translate open-ended product problems into concrete ML and LLM designs, balancing quality, latency, cost, and reliability in a real-world environment.
• Drive cross-functional decisions: Partner closely with product, engineering, and leadership to make informed trade-offs that directly shape the product and user experience.
• Iterate with real-world feedback: Ship quickly, learn from production usage, and continuously improve system behavior at scale.

What We're Looking For

• Technical depth: Strong hands-on Data Science experience, including modeling, feature engineering, statistics, and experimentation.
• LLM systems and evaluation: Experience building and operating production LLM systems (e.g., RAG, tool/agent orchestration, context and memory management), with a strong focus on evaluation, testing, and iteration — or the ability to ramp up quickly in parts of this space.
• Problem-solving mindset: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with comfort operating in open-ended problem spaces where requirements evolve.

Why This Role

• Meaningful user impact: Help millions of travelers make better, more confident decisions for trips that matter to them.
• High ownership, high impact: Your work will directly shape a system used in real booking decisions — not demos or prototypes.
• Direct influence: Play a key role in both implementation and product direction.
• Competitive compensation: Flexible leveling with compensation aligned to experience and impact.

If you’re excited about building real-world AI products at scale and owning systems that directly impact millions of travelers, we’d love to hear from you

We welcome both local and international applications for this role. Full visa sponsorship and relocation assistance available for eligible candidates.