Product Design Lead – AI Assistant & Conversational UX

Agoda; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 293,000 - 441,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel technology company is seeking a Product Design Lead for their AI Assistant team. This hybrid role combines hands-on design with light team leadership, focusing on crafting AI-powered experiences in travel. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of design experience, especially with conversational interfaces, and will manage a small team of designers while collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in product or interaction design.
• Experience designing for conversational interfaces.
• Strong portfolio showing user-centered thinking.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design of AI and chat-based experiences.
• Manage and mentor a small team of designers.
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering.

Skills

User-centered thinking

Complex problem-solving

Collaboration

Tools

Prototyping tools

Design software

Job description

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Bangkok, Thailand

About Agoda

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with a global network of 4.7M hotels and holiday properties worldwide, plus flights, activities, and more. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 7,100+ employees representing 95+ nationalities in 27 markets foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

Our Purpose – Bridging the World Through Travel

We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness.

We are a skillful, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone.

This role is BANGKOK-BASED, RELOCATION PROVIDED.

Get to Know Our Design Team:

The Design team is a diverse group of product designers and researchers that help to build Agoda’s products from our home office in Bangkok. Being a product-driven company, we constantly partner with product managers and engineers to understand user problems and design workflows, interactions, and visual interfaces.

This is a great time to join a team that’s small enough to be scrappy and hands on, yet big enough to influence change and product strategy.

There’s always room to grow here. As a Product Design Lead, you can deepen your craft through complex problem-solving and systems thinking, or expand your leadership by mentoring others, driving strategy, and leading cross-functional initiatives. This is a great time to join a team that’s small enough to be scrappy and hands on, yet big enough to influence change and product strategy.

We’re building the next generation of AI-powered travel experiences, and conversational UX is central to that vision. Join our design team to help shape how users engage with intelligent travel assistants, real-time chat, and natural language interfaces across platforms.

The Role

We’re looking for a Product Design Lead to join our AI Assistant team and shape the future of conversational travel experiences. This hybrid role blends hands-on product design with light team leadership, managing a small group of 2–3 talented designers.

You’ll lead the UX strategy for AI-powered interactions like smart chat, trip planning, support automation, and contextual travel recommendations. You’ll also mentor designers, collaborate closely with product and engineering, and help evolve our design culture across the organisation.

What You’ll Do

Design & Execution

• Lead the end-to-end design of AI and chat-based experiences across web and app
• Translate complex AI capabilities into clear, helpful user flows and intuitive interfaces
• Create prototypes and flows that balance clarity, trust, and speed for our users
• Drive UX and visual design quality within your scope, while aligning with Agoda’s broader vision
• Partner with Design Leadership, Product managers, Engineers, Researchers, Analysts and Content designers to shape what we build and how we build it
• Use data-driven insights, research, and industry best practices to align on design direction.

Leadership & People

• Manage and mentor a small team of 2–3 designers, focusing on growth and creativity
• Provide regular feedback, run critiques, and support career development
• Help scale design culture, systems, and quality through org-wide design initiatives
• Act as a thought partner to senior stakeholders across Product, Data Science, and Engineering

What You’ll Bring

• 7+ years of experience in product or interaction design, with proven hands-on craft
• Experience designing for conversational interfaces, chatbots, or AI-powered systems
• A strong portfolio showing user-centered thinking and high-quality execution
• Ability to simplify complexity through clear information architecture and interaction flows
• Experience leading design discussions and collaborating cross-functionally
• Mentorship or light people management experience is a plus
• Familiarity with LLMs, natural language UX, or multimodal interactions is a bonus
• A data-informed mindset with experience using research, analytics, and best practices to guide design decisions and validate ideas with cross-functional teams

Bonus Points

• Background in voice UX, multimodal interfaces, or customer support tools
• Experience with localisation and designing for multilingual audiences
• Familiarity with personalisation engines or recommendation systems
• Prior experience in travel, e-commerce, or large-scale B2C platforms

Why This Role

This is a rare chance to combine craft leadership and small-team management in a high-impact AI product area. You’ll influence the direction of a new travel paradigm and shape the conversational layer that connects users to Agoda’s entire ecosystem, from search to support to inspiration.

Join us to help build the next generation of AI-powered travel experiences.

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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.

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