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Royal Caribbean Group · 3 days ago

Product Owner, Product Development

Royal Caribbean Group is a leader in the vacation industry, offering innovative cruise experiences. The Product Owner, Product Development will be responsible for translating product vision into actionable briefs, ensuring alignment among stakeholders, and driving the execution of new concepts and experiences for Royal Caribbean International.

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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 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 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 showcase programming and ensure the guest experience will be delivered on strategy/vision
Create startup plans and training materials to ensure each concept/experience is flawlessly executed
Work closely with Newbuild and other architectural/design/construction partners to ensure physical products meet brand expectations
Leverage data from Insights & Analytics to help inform development of the product
Product standards: Helps maintain and share our Royal Caribbean International “experience DNA”, so that the product development standards, practices and experience design guidelines are consistent across all products, projects and teams
Help share experience guidelines to ensure Creative Agencies, Operations and Newbuild teams (along with new hires within the team) have the needed information to design and build venues that deliver against our desired guest experience
Product roadmap: Works in close collaboration with the Project Management Office and Newbuild to ensure all gates, milestones, goals and timelines are being tracked as necessary to meet the proper design quality standards while ensure the aspiration for each product is delivered
Manage our short and long-term goals along complex timelines and deliverables

Qualification

Product strategyConsumer insightsCross-functional collaborationProduct deliveryProject managementCreative problem solvingVerbal communicationWritten communicationAttention to detailTeam leadership

Required

Minimum 3-5 years in a product, design or other similar role developing experiences for consumers
Bachelor's degree required
Experience bringing high quality products to market

Preferred

Experience working with Architects/Designers/Creative & Innovation Consultants a plus
Experience in the travel industry a plus

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits package
Excellent career development opportunities

Company

Royal Caribbean Group

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Royal Caribbean Group is a cruise vacation company with a global fleet of 63 ships traveling around the world.

H1B Sponsorship

Royal Caribbean Group has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (36)
2024 (19)
2023 (12)
2022 (14)
2021 (4)
2020 (14)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$15.43B
Key Investors
RCI HoldingsMorgan Stanley
2025-09-22Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2025-05-14Post Ipo Debt· $2.28B
2024-09-16Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B

Leadership Team

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Jason Liberty
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Matt Denesuk
SVP, Chief AI Officer
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