Sr. Manager, Architecture and Design
About The Position
Royal Caribbean Group’s Product Development – Private Destinations team is hiring a full-time Senior Manager, Design. This onsite Miami position reports to the Senior Director of Architecture & Design. The role oversees design projects from conception through completion, ensuring timely delivery, budget control, and quality. It leads project teams, coordinates with architects and consultants, and provides strategic direction to meet project goals and realize the brand vision. The Senior Manager coordinates administrative and technical project efforts, develops strategic plans, manages ownership budgets, schedules, programs, communications, documentation, and team assignments, and serves as a primary liaison between third-party consultants and ownership. The role estimates scope and fees, prepares proposals and contracts for complex projects, and monitors less experienced team members. It may act as team leader when the Senior Director is absent. The role manages design for one Private Destinations asset at a time, tracks design decisions and requests, coordinates consultant follow-ups, and reviews drawings with the RCL project architect to confirm design intent and material choices through all design phases. It also coordinates design information for jurisdictional and municipal submissions and collaborates with architecture and design leadership to integrate decisions into project documentation and delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from an accredited program.
- At least 10 years of related design experience in hospitality, retail/dining/entertainment (RDE), or theme park projects.
- At least 5 years of project management experience.
- Experience with campus-style developments involving multiple buildings.
- Strong design abilities in master planning, site planning, conceptual building design (plans, sections, elevations, and massing), and material selection.
- Strong drafting, modeling, and graphic skills.
- Ability to provide quick markups and alternative solutions when areas require immediate responses.
- Excellent multidisciplinary technical knowledge.
- Ability to lead a team on projects.
- Experience with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and Project.
- Strong planning and mentoring skills.
- Exceptional organizational skills.
- Ability to travel.
Nice To Haves
- Architecture licensure is preferred but not required.
Responsibilities
- Oversee design management for one Private Destinations asset at a time.
- Track design directions discussed in consultant, internal, leadership, and executive design meetings.
- Follow up with design consultants on design advancement and coordination with sub-consultants.
- Maintain the design tracker, including design requests and decisions, dates, responsible parties, and blockers.
- Review progress drawings with the RCL project architect to confirm design intent and material choices throughout planning, concept, schematic, design development, construction documents, and construction administration phases.
- Work with the Senior Manager of Architecture & Design to integrate design decisions into project reports, proposals, additional service agreements, change orders, and contracts.
- Manage design-related information supplied to consultants for jurisdictional and municipal submissions, including planning submissions, environmental impact, design reviews, permitting, and bidding.
- Oversee design of large hospitality and commercial developments.
- Participate in or lead management of deliverables at all project phases.
- Coordinate project efforts, manage project communications and documentation, and oversee budgets, schedules, programs, administrative tasks, and team assignments.
- Estimate scope and fees and prepare proposals and contracts for complex projects.
- Oversee third-party consultant teams under contract with Royal Caribbean Group, including contracts, additional service agreements, schedules, and deliverables.
- Provide oversight and monitoring of less experienced team members.
- Lead project teams and provide planning and mentoring.
- Support Royal Caribbean International policies on project delivery, quality control, and safety.
- May act as team leader in the absence of the Senior Director of Architecture & Design.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Career development opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
