Lead, Compensation Design

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd • Miami, FL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

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. This position is onsite and based in Miami, Florida. This position is also not eligible for work authorization sponsorship. 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in corporate compensation, Total Rewards consulting, or a related analytical/advisory field directly tied to rewards, workforce cost, compensation 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 validate complex data and financial models.
• Experience with broad-based compensation, market pricing, job evaluation, job architecture, variable compensation, pay equity, or compensation governance.
• Proven ability to convert ambiguous business issues into structured workplans, clear analysis, actionable recommendations, and implementation-ready solutions.
• Strong business acumen and judgment; able to connect compensation design to talent strategy, financial objectives, stakeholder needs, governance, and operational realities.
• Strong consulting acumen and ability to influence without authority across HR, Finance, Legal, Payroll, Operations, Brand leaders, and the business; able to translate complex compensation issues into clear, business-relevant recommendations.
• Customer-focused and results-oriented with strong ownership and a bias toward action; comfortable working independently in a demanding, deadline-driven environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in large, matrixed, multi-brand, multinational, or highly complex organizations preferred.
• Experience with enterprise HRIS platforms, such as SuccessFactors or Workday; compensation systems; survey platforms; and analytics/visualization tools, such as Tableau or Power BI, preferred.
• Applied curiosity and fluency with AI, emerging technologies, and process improvement approaches to improve scalability, reduce manual work, and strengthen compensation insights.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain compensation frameworks, salary structures, market pricing approaches, and incentive programs that align with business priorities and talent strategy.
• Structure base pay practices, pay ranges, annual incentive opportunities, and variable compensation programs with clear governance, modeling, and implementation discipline.
• Perform and support job evaluations, leveling assessments, job architecture activities, and related governance to promote consistency and appropriate role alignment across supported businesses.
• Build, review, and analyze financial models, forecasts, and scenario analyses related to compensation cycles, program design, budget allocation, and business cases.
• Translate complex data into clear insights, tradeoffs, implications, and recommendations for leadership decision-making.
• Apply AI, emerging technologies, and process improvement thinking to improve compensation workflows, increase scalability, reduce manual effort, and strengthen insight generation.
• Support compensation governance, pay transparency, pay fairness, regulatory reporting, global pay equity analysis, remediation planning, and audit readiness.
• 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.
• Independently lead assigned compensation workstreams from problem definition through analysis, recommendation, stakeholder alignment, implementation, and closure with strong ownership, urgency, and quality.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level