Senior Travel Designer – Asia Pacific Specialist
At Jacada, we make travel uplifting. We design highly personalised, bespoke journeys that include authentic experiences across Asia Pacific, designed with responsible travel practices in mind.
This is a target-based, relationship-driven sales role for a results-motivated professional who enjoys converting leads into bookings and thrives on exceeding targets. You will manage a high-value pipeline for luxury travel clients, building deep trust and acting as an expert partner. Through frequent and thoughtful phone conversations, you will get to know our clients, inspire them with your passion for travel, and deliver exceptional service throughout their journey.
We are looking for a naturally curious individual who is sales-motivated, enjoys working towards targets, and is equally passionate about delivering a high-touch, premium service experience.
What you’ll be doing
Proactively follow up on new enquiries, showing the persistence needed to nurture warm leads into quotes. Maintaining consistent, effective outreach to clients who do not initially respond.
Manage a high-contact sales pipeline, consistently meeting commercial and conversion targets while maintaining exceptional customer care.
Speak directly with our clients through frequent phone and video calls to gain a comprehensive understanding of them and their travelling companions, including their travel needs, interests, and passions.
Guide clients to the best travel decisions, using your expertise to introduce premium options and unique experiences that elevate their trip.
Leverage your deep, personal destination expertise from day one to inspire clients, handle regional questions confidently, and bring their dream itineraries to life.
Curate bespoke itineraries across Asia Pacific that pair sustainable, unique hotels and experiences with responsible travel practices.
Proactively maintain contact with past clients in between their trips to build deep rapport, nurture long-term loyalty, and drive repeat and referral business.
Maintain exceptional data hygiene in our CRM (Hubspot). Handle administrative tasks quickly and accurately, including booking confirmations, invoicing, and keeping client records up to date.
Partner with our post-sales teams to manage real-time feedback or micro-complaints quickly pre-, during, and post-travel.
Collaborate closely with your immediate regional team while actively cultivating connections across our wider global teams to share destination insights and support collective success
Happily lend a helping hand to support client care and your colleagues when regional team members are away.
Travel on annual FAM trips within your region to keep your destination expertise unparalleled, and support our Positive Impact Collection by recommending unique properties
What you’re like
Ideally 5+ years in travel sales or a high-contact, relationship-driven sales role.
A true regional expert, possessing extensive first-hand travel knowledge and a genuine love for Asia Pacific.
Confident using your personal destination insights descriptively and persuasively to capture a client's imagination and close sales.
A genuine people-person who loves building deep rapport and moving clients from a transactional mindset to a trusted partnership.
A proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding commercial sales targets.
Sales-motivated and driven by uncapped commission structures and clear performance metrics.
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with a sharp eye for detail and data accuracy, understanding that your input impacts success
Highly organised with strong time-management skills. Quick to pick up new systems and software, with the ability to confidently navigate a multi-platform environment to manage your workflow efficiently.
A creative problem-solver who views complex logistical challenges or client adjustments as opportunities to design innovative solutions.
Passionate about responsible travel and aligned with our vision to make positive impact the natural path for luxury travelers.
A collaborative team player who looks beyond their immediate desk, eager to invest in meaningful relationships, celebrating diversity and connecting with colleagues across our global network.
Compensation & Benefits
Base Salary: £34,067 per annum.
Guaranteed Earnings: A minimum guaranteed commission top-up to ensure you earn at least £47,000 p.a. during your first 6 months of onboarding and training.
Uncapped Commission: A lucrative, performance-driven commission structure with typical Senior Travel Designer overall earnings ranging from £60,000 to £100,000. Top performers can significantly exceed this range.
Working Hours: Monday – Friday, 10am–6pm, based in our Old Street office with one late shift per week (typically 12-8 but split shifts also possible). 3 or more days per week in-office working.
Private Medical Insurance: We offer all UK based employees private medical insurance through Bupa.
Structured learning and development: You'll be set up to succeed with a 6-month sales programme run by our dedicated L&D team, plus hands-on upskilling and support from your manager and L&D throughout your time at Jacada.
Reports to: Head of Asia Pacific Travel Design
Application Closing Date: 22nd of July 2026 (Subject to the volume of applications)
Start Date: 28th of September 2026
- Department
- Travel Designers
- Locations
- Jacada Travel
- Remote status
- Hybrid
Jacada Travel
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Agile Hours
⏳ It's important to us that everyone at Jacada leads a healthy work-life balance. Have a gym class to attend? Have a course you're working on outside of work? Whatever it might be, we're here to support your life ambitions and offer agile hours to help you achieve this.
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Mental Wellbeing Support
🧠 Promoting mental well-being is a core focus here at Jacada. We ensure that all our employees have access to resources such as our mental health first-aiders, and dedicated Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs). Additionally, for those based in the UK we also offer access to Bupa Mental Health support. We also conduct Monday meditation sessions for all, to help start the week in a positive way.
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Learning and Development
📖 Here at Jacada, we place a strong emphasis on training and career development. We are committed to providing all our employees with opportunities for growth and the chance to continually nurture their growth mindset. In your initial three weeks, you will receive a comprehensive training program, but the journey of learning doesn't stop there. Our dedicated Learning and Development Manager works to ensure that every member of our team receives the necessary training throughout their time with us and is well-informed about their career progression opportunities.
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Bank holidays
🌴 We provide 25 days of paid annual leave in addition to bank holidays. At Jacada we celebrate diversity and this means understanding that each of us has our own beliefs, culture, and identity. So we allow our team to work bank holidays which can then be taken whenever they want throughout the year!
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Socials
🎊 We’re a social bunch and enjoy spending time together, but this is optional so no pressure socials if this isn't your vibe! Each quarter teams organise socials together, whether we are remote or in person we love any excuse to get together. Some recent social activities have included shuffleboard, BBQ boat outings, and virtual cooking classes. Additionally, we arrange annual summer and winter soirées that include both in-office and remote team members.
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Casual Dress Code
👟 We feel that it’s important for everyone to feel comfortable at work. After all the best work doesn’t depend on whether you’re wearing a suit!
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🏥 Private Medical Care
At Jacada, we care about the mental and physical wellbeing of everyone working here. That's why we've introduced private medical care for our employees living in the UK.
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Dog Friendly Office
🐶 We operate a dog-friendly office and are always happy to see more furry work buddies!
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🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme (UK)
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🚆 Season Ticket Policy (UK)
Workplace & culture
We've created an environment that allows people to be their authentic selves. A place where individuals can grow and build strong connections with like-minded others. We strive to ensure everyone feels like they have a purpose and are having fun whilst doing it!
Our team is based all over the globe, no matter where you are, or what time zone you're in, we vouch to try our best, learn from our mistakes and grow a strong and progressive culture together.
About Jacada Travel
We are a luxury travel company offering completely personalised, private trips all over the world. We strive to be that well-travelled friend our clients can come to for advice and inspiration and to really get under the skin of the places they visit and experience things that don’t always make it into the guidebooks.