Product Associate Principal

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The Royal Caribbean Group’s HR Transformation Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full-time Senior Manager, HR Product Owner reporting to the Director, HR Product Owner.

This position works on-site in Miami, FL.

The Product Associate Principal - SAP, is a strategic product leader responsible for the end-to-end ownership of our HR technology products, including SAP Success Factors and custom system applications. This role operates at the intersection of business strategy, product management, and technology delivery, ensuring solutions are aligned to enterprise priorities, scalable, and delivering measurable business value.

This leader executes against the organizations product vision, governs the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and drives execution across complex, cross-functional environments. They serve as the primary bridge between HR, IT, and business stakeholders, translating strategic objectives into actionable product roadmaps and high-quality system outcomes.

Reporting to the Director, HR Product Owner, this role is responsible for overseeing designated products within the HR ecosystem and leading the execution of associated Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) initiatives.

• Support and Execute against the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for HR platforms (e.g., SAP Success Factors, case management, custom applications).
• Align product direction with enterprise workforce strategy, HR transformation goals, and business priorities.
• Act as the voice of the customer and business, ensuring solutions meet user needs and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Analyze industry trends and emerging HR technology capabilities to inform product evolution.
• Manage system enhancements, integrations, releases, and ongoing platform optimization.
• Drive data integrity, process standardization, and system usability across the HR vertical.

• Perform In-take and manage the product backlog, ensuring clear communication and prioritization based on business value, risk, and urgency.
• Translate business needs into user stories, requirements, and technical specifications.
• Ensure consistent delivery cadence while balancing competing priorities across multiple products and stakeholders.

• Enforce SDLC governance, standards, and controls across all product initiatives.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery including requirement gather, design, build, test, deploy, and sustainment.
• Define test strategy, scenarios, and acceptance criteria to ensure quality and scalability.
• Partner with engineering and architecture teams to ensure solutions are technically sound and future-ready.

• Build strong partnerships with HR COEs, business leaders, and IT stakeholders.
• Lead cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, operations, and vendors.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes for executive stakeholders.
• Define and execute change management and communication strategies to enable adoption.

• Develop and manage integrated product and program plans across multiple initiatives.
• Identify, manage, and escalation risks, dependencies, and delivery constraints.
• Ensure delivery to scope, timeline, cost, and quality expectations.
• Provide executive-level reporting on progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Perform other duties as required.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management.

• 10+ years of experience in product management, HR technology, or enterprise systems delivery.
• 3–5+ years of people…