Senior Product Owner, Product Development

Journey with us! Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our incredible team of employees at Royal Caribbean Group. We are proud to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, and excellent career development opportunities, each offering unique ways to explore the world.

 

We are proud to be the vacation-industry leader with global brands — including Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises and Silversea Cruises — the most innovative fleet and private destinations, and the best people. Together, we are dedicated to turning the vacation of a lifetime into a lifetime of vacations for our guests.

 

Royal Caribbean Group’s Royal Caribbean International brand has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Senior Product Owner on the Product Development Team reporting to the Senior Director, Product Development.

 

This position will work onsite in Miami, Florida

 

Position Summary:

 

In this position, you would be responsible for translating the product vision into the various briefs, documents and working sessions aligning every stakeholder and partner to ensure that whatever product or experience the Product Owner is assigned is brought to life as an amazing and uniquely Royal Caribbean International vacation product.

 

You would run day-to-day point over the execution of new concepts, experiences, activities, dedicated spaces and programming for Royal Caribbean International. This entails driving various strategic rollout efforts on new ships and modernization efforts for our existing fleet or private destinations. You would touch all the elements of the guest experience, from brief, through design and execution, ensuring that concepts are brought to life in line with the strategic goals and with a full understanding of feasibility (operational and construction). To be successful, you must work collaboratively with other teams including Product Innovation, Operations, Newbuild, Design, Marketing, Digital, Sales, Risk Management and Revenue Management.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

 

Product strategy: Provide ongoing support for the strategic direction of the product/experience. Ensures alignment between all stakeholders and partners throughout the product development process.

• Work with Consumer Insights on ways to bring forward the voice of the consumer and deliver products that resonate with guests.
• Partner and collaborate closely with key stakeholders from the various departments across the organization to adapt and evolve the strategy as necessary.

 

Product definition: Provides day-to-day product vision and support for all partners and stakeholders ensuring that the products being created for Royal Caribbean International are viable, feasible and desirable for our guests. In addition, the Senior Product Owner must be a highly collaborative team player connecting various disciplines from the brand, Newbuild and all partners to ensure a successful delivery.

• Ensure that concepts are marketable, drive guest satisfaction and ultimately drive revenue.
• Lead aspects of design and execution to continually enhance our products.
• Create stories (in the form of presentations) outlining the product direction to help partners and stakeholders stay aligned and focused on the key priorities.

 

Product delivery: The Sr Owner is ultimately responsible for helping our partners prioritize appropriately to ensure that final delivery of the product realizes our strategic vision and brings to life the desired experience for our guests.

• Communicate changes, updates in direction or priority shifts to cross functional teams while keeping Product Managers up to speed on progress.
• Work closely with operations and design teams on run of show events to showcas