Sr. Manager - Architecture and Design

Journey with us! Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our incredible team of employees at Royal Caribbean Group. We are proud 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.

This position will be working onsite from Miami.

Position Summary:

The Senior Manager of Architecture serves as Royal Caribbean International's project lead and Owner's Representative for assigned Private Destinations development projects, guiding projects from concept through construction completion. This role combines architectural project management, consultant oversight, and strategic project leadership to ensure projects align with brand standards, operational objectives, budgets, schedules, and quality expectations.

The Senior Manager manages multidisciplinary consultant teams, coordinates internal stakeholders, and oversees the advancement of design and technical documentation throughout all project phases. Acting as the primary liaison between Royal Caribbean International and external architects, engineers, planners, and specialty consultants, this position is responsible for driving accountability, facilitating decision-making, mitigating project risks, and ensuring successful project delivery.

The ideal candidate possesses a strong architectural background, exceptional project management skills, and experience representing ownership interests on large-scale hospitality, entertainment, resort, mixed-use, or destination development projects. Success in this role requires the ability to balance design excellence, operational requirements, financial objectives, and executional realities within a fast-paced development environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Project Leadership & Owner's Representation

• Serve as the Architecture & Design lead and Owner's Representative for assigned Private Destinations projects.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, and design deliverables throughout all phases of project development.
• Champion Royal Caribbean International’s interests and ensure project decisions align with brand, operational, guest experience, and business objectives.
• Facilitate timely decision-making and maintain alignment among cross-functional stakeholders, consultants, and project leadership.
• Identify project risks, constraints, and opportunities, and develop strategies to support successful project outcomes.

Design & Consultant Management

• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary consultant teams, including architects, planners, engineers, landscape architects, specialty consultants, and local architects of record.
• Monitor consultant performance, contract compliance, schedules, milestones, and deliverables.
• Review design packages and technical documentation for compliance with project objectives, brand standards, operational requirements, constructability considerations, and applicable codes.
• Ensure comments are effectively incorporated and design decisions are documented and communicated across project teams.
• Coordinate permitting, entitlement, environmental review, and authority-approval processes in collaboration with consultants and local agencies.

Project Coordination & Delivery

• Document and track project direction, decisions, action items, and responsibilities resulting from design reviews, coordination meetings, and executive presentations, in tandem with PMO team.
• Maintain project tracking tools, including responsibility matrices, risk registers, design status logs, decision trackers, budget reports, and consultant deliverable matrices.
• Support development and administration of consultant agreements, additional service authorizations, change orders, and contract amendments.
• Collaborate with Product Development, Construction Management, Operations, Procurement, Finance, Legal, PMO, and external partners throughout project execution.
• Assist in preparation of executive presentations, project updates, budget reviews, and strategic recommendations.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in Architecture required.
• Professional architectural registration preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of architectural design, project management, or development experience.
• Minimum 5 years managing complex hospitality, entertainment, resort, mixed-use, or large-scale commercial projects.
• Demonstrated experience serving as an Project Manager, Owner's Representative, Project Architect, Development Manager, or similar leadership role.
• Experience managing consultant teams through planning, design, permitting, procurement, and construction phases.
• Experience with campus-style developments, resorts, theme parks, destination developments, or multi-building projects preferred.
• Strong understanding of project delivery, consultant management, budgeting, scheduling, permitting, and construction administration processes.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.

We know there's a lot to consider. As you go through the application process, our recruiters will be glad to provide guidance, and more relevant details to answer any additional questions. Thank you again for your interest in Royal Caribbean Group. We'll hope to see you onboard soon!

No immigration sponsorship is offered.

Agency and Third-Party Submissions: Please note this is a direct search by the Company, and applications through agencies and other third parties will not be accepted, nor will fees be paid for unsolicited resumes. Any unsolicited resumes will be considered the Company's property.

It is the policy of the Company to ensure equal employment and promotion opportunity to qualified candidates without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sexuality, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Royal Caribbean Group and each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.