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 Agoda.

 The Opportunity:

We’re looking for a Senior Manager or Principal, HR Business Partner (HRBP) to lead the People agenda for our North Asia Region (Japan and South Korea) as the sole on-site HR leader. In this high-impact role, you’ll be a trusted advisor to Agoda’s Commercial teams, helping drive revenue growth by building high-performing, customer-focused teams and strengthening key B2B partnerships.

You’ll spend about 40% of your time on strategic partnering and talent management, with the remainder focused on performance management, employee relations, people operations, and learning & development. You’ll work hands-on with leaders and employees, balancing big-picture thinking with practical day-to-day support.

In this Role, you’ll get to:

• Partner as a senior advisor to regional leaders and managers, shaping business and people strategies through a deep understanding of goals, team culture, and talent needs to drive commercial success.
• Shape and deliver a People Roadmap that aligns with both company-wide and local business priorities.
• Lead and influence cross-functional initiatives that support business transformation and organizational growth.
• Anticipate business needs and implement proactive, scalable HR solutions that add long-term value.
• Use data and insights to inform decisions, measure impact, and provide actionable recommendations (e.g., retention, engagement, performance trends).
• Lead talent identification, development, and succession planning to build a strong leadership pipeline.
• Support organizational design, workforce planning, and change management to keep Agoda agile and competitive.
• Drive effective change management and communication for key business initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions and high engagement.
• Manage, in partnership with People Centre of Expertise,  employee relations cases, ensuring fair and timely resolution, and provide guidance on complex or sensitive matters.
• Oversee people operations, including onboarding, policy guidance, and compliance with local labor laws.
• Drive learning and development initiatives to build skills and support career growth.
• Mentor and coach HR colleagues and business leaders, building people leadership capability across the region.
• Champion a culture of feedback, continuous learning, and high performance.
• Ensure strong governance, compliance, and risk management in all people practices.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who enjoys both strategic work and rolling up their sleeves to get things done.

 What you’ll Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources or a related field is required.
• 8-10 years of progressive HR experience, with at least 3–5 years in a senior HRBP or HR leadership role, ideally in a fast-paced, multinational, or matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated experience embedding People and culture into business leadership, ideally at scale and in a fast-paced, global environment.
• Ability to flex between company-wide strategy and tailored solutions for specific region, with a strong business partnership mindset.
• Skilled at aligning and connecting HR functions, building strong relationships, and driving collaboration across teams.
• Expertise in leadership effectiveness, engagement, talent management, rewards, succession planning, and organizational design.
• Experience with workforce planning, organizational agility, and leading change initiatives.
• Outstanding ability to communicate with influence, use data to inform decisions, and engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to cope well with ambiguity and change.
• Willingness to get hands-on and tackle operational HR tasks as needed. Especially during transformation. You’re not afraid to roll up your sleeves and support the team wherever needed to drive results.
• Fluency in written and spoken Korean and English, with strong communication skills to effectively convey complex information. Japanese language skills are a strong plus.

It’s Great if you Have:

• Curiosity, ready to challenge current practices and perspectives.
• Experience creating and rolling out people programs or ways of working that make the company a better place to work and help teams perform at their best.
• Great sense of ownership and reliability.
• Multicultural or International Experience.
• Humility, flexibility, good interpersonal skills.

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The Community you will join:

Airbnb’s Public Policy campaign team exists to further the interests of our community of hosts and guests with politicians, regulators, opinion leaders and others who shape the political and regulatory context for our business, helping them understand the significant social and economic contributions of our platform. Across the region, we are engaged in hundreds of local conversations and negotiations with governments big and small.  We engage governments at local, state, provincial and national levels directly and also use innovative advocacy and partnership strategies that actively involve our community and stakeholders in making the case for fair, progressive home sharing rules.

The Difference You Will Make:

The main role of the Public Policy Manager is to ensure the conception and execution of successful policy campaigns in their assigned region. In coordination with the Public Policy Lead, the Public Policy Manager will draft, develop and execute integrated government relations, communications, stakeholder engagement and mobilization plans and projects to achieve key policy objectives

As a Public Policy Manager, you must be meticulously organized, detail- and solutions-oriented. You are also able to see the big picture and prioritize projects strategically when needed, while understanding how to synthesize legislation, information and data that should be escalated to leadership. You should have a strong independent work ethic and excellent communication skills, and an ability to take big ideas and translate them into policy with a positive and creative outlook. The ability to develop and maintain good and strong relationships with key internal functions and stakeholders in the region and globally within Airbnb will be highly valued.

A Typical Day:

• Develop and implement Airbnb’s legislative and public policy objectives, including helping determine advocacy priorities, positions, and strategies.
• Review legislative language, draft comments, and research issues to provide analysis and critical thinking on legislation affecting Airbnb’s priorities.
• Maintain relationships with an extensive network of contacts in local, regional, and national legislative, executive, and administrative offices, as well as with allied groups and coalition partners.
• Represent Airbnb in meetings with government and elected officials, as well as industry associations, Airbnb hosts, and other stakeholders.
• Manage consultants and agencies to support campaign plans.
• Ensure progress is reported accurately and regularly, and roadblocks are flagged in a timely fashion.
• Work closely with cross-functional partners to make sure that policy plans fit with business priorities.
• Monitor and track legislation and regulatory matters as directed.
• Support as needed to help implement Airbnb’s legislative and public policy activities.
• Lead strategic engagement with the National Assembly, ministries, regulators, and policy stakeholders.
• Define stakeholder strategies and engagement priorities aligned with business and policy objectives.
• Drive initiatives from concept through delivery, including planning, sequencing, internal alignment, and external follow-through.
• Exercise sound judgment in external communications, commitments, and escalation management in sensitive policy environments.
• Maintain structured engagement with local district offices, ensuring commitments are realistic, messaging is consistent, and execution is disciplined.
• Anticipate political dynamics, timing risks, and stakeholder sensitivities and translate them into clear recommendations for leadership.
• Produce concise, decision-ready briefing materials, meeting readouts, and leadership updates.

Your Expertise:

• 8+years experience working with policy issues in a relevant business, political, governmental, legislative or regulatory context.
• Background in the National Assembly, central government, or equivalent policy-facing role preferred
• Ability to quickly get up to speed on complex technical and regulatory issues.
• Ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously and navigate a complex matrix organization with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills; planning, memo-writing and budgeting/basic accounting skills with proficiency in major computer applications.
• Extremely creative; takes an entrepreneurial approach to the work with a proven track record of being proactive.
• Highly results-driven and strives to find the most efficient way to do things without sacrificing a high quality of work and/or results.
• Excellent communicator with great presentation and writing skills
• Acute attention to detail; extremely organized and able to help keep others organized.
• Strong work ethic, and exhibits professionalism, courtesy and strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to exercise judgment and maintain confidentiality.
• Flexible with the ability to remain poised under pressure; adapts to situations as they arise.
• Embraces change and challenges with a positive and solutions-oriented approach.
• Self-starter with a sense of humor and the ability to thrive in a fast moving and sometimes stressful environment; ability to resolve complex and unfamiliar problems in a timely and efficient manner.
• Passion for home-sharing and the mission of the company.
• Leadership skills and experience in managing other people and developing teams will be nice to have.
• Willingness to travel regularly within the assigned region.

Our Commitment to Inclusion & Belonging:

We are committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, enabling us to attract creatively-led people and develop the best products, services, and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.