Lead, Design

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.

The Royal Caribbean Group’s Shoreside Compensation Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Lead, Compensation Design reporting to the Senior Manager, Compensation Design
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This position is onsite and based in Miami, Florida.

This position is also not eligible for work authorization sponsorship.

Position Summary:

The Lead, Compensation Design is responsible for developing compensation programs, frameworks, analytics, and recommendations that support business outcomes, market competitiveness, internal equity, and effective governance across Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Silversea Cruises, and our Private Destination locations.

This role will independently drive the structuring, modeling, and implementation of assigned work across broad‑based compensation, job architecture, market pricing, pay equity, and compensation analytics. The Lead will translate business and Total Rewards priorities into structured recommendations, financial models, program designs, and implementation‑ready solutions while serving as a Compensation Design partner to Brand leaders and cross‑functional stakeholders.

The ideal candidate brings strong analytical capability, business judgment, urgency, and ownership. Success requires the ability to take ambiguous business needs, quickly structure the work, develop a clear point of view, and deliver high‑quality outputs with limited direction.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Compensation Strategy & Structure: Develop, implement, and maintain compensation frameworks, salary structures, market pricing approaches, and incentive programs that align with business priorities and talent strategy.
• Broad‑Based Compensation Expertise: Structure base pay practices, pay ranges, annual incentive opportunities, and variable compensation programs with clear governance, modeling, and implementation discipline.
• Job Architecture & Job Evaluation: Perform and support job evaluations, leveling assessments, job architecture activities, and related governance to promote consistency and appropriate role alignment across supported businesses.
• Analytics & Financial Modeling: Build, review, and analyze financial models, forecasts, and scenario analyses related to compensation cycles, program design, budget allocation, and business cases.
• Insights & Recommendations: Translate complex data into clear insights, tradeoffs, implications, and recommendations for leadership decision‑making.
• Workflow Innovation & AI Enablement: Apply AI, emerging technologies, and process improvement thinking to improve compensation workflows, increase scalability, reduce manual effort, and strengthen insight generation.
• Governance, Compliance & Pay Equity: Support compensation governance, pay transparency, pay fairness, regulatory reporting, global pay equity analysis, remediation planning, and audit readiness.
• Cross‑Functional Partnership: Partner with Brand leaders, HR, Finance, Legal, Payroll, Operations, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and other stakeholders to develop compensation recommendations and support program design, implementation, governance, and key business initiatives.
• Workstream Leadership & Execution: Independently lead assigned compensation work streams from problem definition through analysis, recommendation, stakeholder alignment, implementation, and closure with strong ownership, urgency, and quality.

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