Senior Design Lead (Bangkok based, relocation provided)

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. A bit about the Brand team Agoda’s Brand team brings together, brand managers, media planners, project managers, designers, and creatives. We shape how consumers, business partners, and employees experience Agoda, building recognition and brand trust. Working as an internal agency, we develop brand campaigns and marketing communications across digital channels, events, presentations, and other brand touchpoints. About the role We are looking for a Senior Design Lead who combines exceptional design craft with experience managing and developing designers. This role carries both individual contributor and people management responsibilities. You will personally develop concepts and design key work, while guiding the team and raising the quality of its output. A central focus will be making Agoda’s distinctive brand assets more recognizable, versatile, and effective through repeated use. You will shape how these assets appear across campaigns, channels, and markets, building familiarity while finding fresh, purposeful ways to express the brand. You bring a refined eye for impactful design and a strong understanding of visual and message hierarchy. You can demonstrate your thinking through your own work, coach others to strengthen theirs, and use AI confidently in visual design and campaign development. In this role you’ll get to • Personally concept and design. Own design projects from brief through final execution, producing original work and contributing actively to the team’s everyday creative output. • Strengthen Agoda’s distinctive brand assets. Develop consistent, inventive applications that make our assets more recognizable, versatile, and effective across touchpoints and over time. • Lead and develop designers. Manage and coach the team, set clear expectations, and run constructive creative reviews. Give actionable feedback and demonstrate solutions through your own design work. • Shape visual and message architecture. Work with copy, creative, and marketing partners to establish what audiences should notice first, understand next, and act on. • Evolve our design guidelines. Develop practical principles, examples, and reusable resources that help teams and external partners use our brand assets consistently and imaginatively. • Connect creative quality to business objectives . Present a clear rationale for design decisions, use audience insights and performance feedback to improve work, and balance priorities and deadlines. Collaborate with production specialists to carry the creative vision through delivery. • Use AI to elevate design and brand campaigns. Apply AI tools confidently to develop campaign concepts, explore visual directions, and create and refine layouts and brand imagery. Guide the team in integrating AI into everyday design work while maintaining strong craft, clear message hierarchy, and consistent use of Agoda’s distinctive assets. What you’ll need to succeed • 10+ years of design experience within creative, branding, or adve