Payment & Operations Support Team Manager (Based in Bangkok)
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p></p> <p><strong>About Agoda</strong></p> <p>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. </p> <p> </p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <p>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.</p></div><p><strong>Get to Know our Team: </strong></p> <p>The Payment & Ops Support team is responsible for providing high quality customer support to Agoda customers, with a primary focus on payment solutions. </p> <p>The Payment & Ops Support team provide Agoda customers & internal stakeholders with escalated payment related support, manage manual processing needs as part of delivering payments and refunds across global and local payment methods. The Payment & Ops Support team provide a high standard of post-booking customer service supporting the remediation & processing of payment requests and assisting frontline agents.</p> <p>The teams prides ourselves on outstanding attention to details, commitment, and full dedication to what they do. </p> <p>The Payment & Ops support team strives to protect Agoda from regulatory incidents & financial loss through identifying & preventing compliance opportunities.</p> <p><strong>The Opportunity:</strong></p> <p>Our team supports all Agoda languages with representation from most teams. We operate with a strong sense of teamwork to support each other through sharing workload, skills & information, productivity & language support. We connect regularly through team meetings, training sessions and team fun events as well as catch ups with team leaders.</p> <p><strong>In this Role, you'll get to: </strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Lead a team of Payment & Ops Support specialists</strong> <ul> <li>Lead, develop, and inspire a team of Payment & Operations Support Specialists</li> <li>Set clear performance expectations and monitor team productivity and quality through structured KPIs and SLAs</li> <li>Provide consistent, constructive coaching and performance feedback; identify gaps early and implement targeted action plans</li> <li>Manage attendance, conduct, and team wellbeing with empathy and consistency</li> <li>Drive talent growth by participating in recruitment, onboarding, and career development conversations</li> <li>Act as a deputy for the Regional Customer Services Manager when required</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Support agents managing payment related cases:</strong> <ul> <li>Processing payment escalations</li> <li>Interco/Merchant Commission Escalations</li> <li>Cancelling & manually authorizing complex payments</li> <li>Processing stuck refund via logging in to payment gateways’ interfaces</li> <li>Serve as a subject-matter expert — applying real-world payment industry knowledge to diagnose, triage, and resolve operational issues quickly</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Oversees traff