Senior Manager, Design

Position: Senior Manager, Compensation Design
Journey with us! Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our exciting team of employees. Royal Caribbean Group is pleased 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.

The Royal Caribbean Group's HR Total Rewards Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full-time Senior Manager, Compensation Design reporting to the Senior Director, Shoreside Compensation.

This role is onsite and will be based in Miami, Florida.

This position is also not eligible for work authorization sponsorship.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Senior Manager, 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 Group's shoreside populations.

This role will lead the structuring, modeling, and implementation of work across broad-based compensation, sales compensation, job architecture, market pricing, pay equity, and compensation analytics. The Senior Manager will translate business and Total Rewards priorities into structured recommendations, financial models, program designs, and implementation-ready solutions while serving as a thought partner to Brand leaders and cross-functional partners.

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 while ensuring consistent, decision-ready team output.

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: Structure base pay practices, pay ranges, annual incentive opportunities, and variable compensation programs with clear governance, modeling, and implementation discipline.
• Sales Compensation: Lead the modeling, structuring, and evaluation of sales compensation plans, including plan mechanics, performance measures, pay mix, targets, funding approaches, and governance requirements.
• Job Architecture & Job Evaluation: Build, optimize, and manage job evaluation methodologies, leveling frameworks, job architecture principles, and related governance.
• Analytics & Financial Modeling: Build, review, and challenge 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 and strengthen 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 key stakeholders; manage compensation vendors and support escalation/remediation events with Compensation Delivery.
• Team Leadership & Workstream Execution: Manage and develop direct reports while leading compensation work streams with strong ownership, urgency, and quality; provide guidance, coaching, and technical oversight to support effective execution and consistent, decision-ready…