Description
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.
We are looking for a business-minded Legal Associate Director to support Agoda’s expanding travel business, with a particular focus on flights, travel packages, and related travel products. This role oversees and directly contributes to a mix of product development advisory, consumer-facing and cross-border regulatory advice and commercial contracting support.
Key responsibilities:
- Advise on a broad range of legal and regulatory matters relating to Agoda’s travel business, with a particular focus on flights, activities, travel packages, and adjacent travel products.
- Ensure delivery and occasionally draft, review, and negotiate agreements relating to travel-related content, technology licensing and services, and commercial supplier arrangements.
- Ensure delivery and provide strategic guidance on new travel products and new product features, including deployment in new markets.
- Partner with internal stakeholders to identify cross-functional risks and provide practical legal solutions.
- Provide legal support in disputes, complaints, and consumer protection or regulatory matters.
- Contribute to templates, guidance materials, and internal procedures.
- Actively engage with senior stakeholders in the company and influence key risk decisions.
- Lead, manage and develop a team of senior lawyers.
The successful applicant will have:
- A Law Degree (JD) with 10+ years of post-qualification experience in private practice, in-house, or a combination of both.
- Experience in a multinational corporation with a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrable ability to work autonomously with proven management and leadership experience of small-medium sized teams.
- High level of commercial awareness and business acumen.
- Strong product/regulatory advisory background and a practical approach to balancing legal risk with business needs.
- Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, experience in travel, aviation, packages, e-commerce, marketplaces, or other digital consumer businesses.