Senior Manager, Design

The Royal Caribbean Group’s Human Resources 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.

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.

• 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 deliverables.

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or a related field. Master’s degree or relevant certification preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in corporate compensation, Total Rewards consulting, or a related analytical/advisory field directly tied to rewards, workforce cost, incentive design, or compensation governance.
• Strong analytical capability, including advanced Excel skills, financial modeling, market data analysis, scenario planning, and interpretation of complex datasets.
• Demonstrated ability to independently build, review, audit, and…