Royal Caribbean Group

Product Owner

Royal Caribbean Group  •  Miami, FL (Hybrid)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Journey with us! Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our exciting team of employees. Royal Caribbean Group is pleased 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.

The Royal Caribbean Group’s Travel Platforms Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time IT Product Owner reporting to the Senior Director, Product.

This role is ideal for a builder–product hybrid who can:

  • Develop automation solutions using Python
  • Work closely with business stakeholders to refine requirements
  • Drive delivery in an Agile environment

The candidate will play a critical role in bridging business, product, and engineering, while independently building scalable solutions to improve operational efficiency.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Technical Development & Automation (Hands-on)

  • Design and develop automation workflows and tools using Python
  • Build data pipelines and transformations using:
    • Pandas
    • DuckDB
  • Develop lightweight APIs and services using FastAPI
  • Optimize data processing and performance for large datasets
  • Troubleshoot and debug technical issues across the stack

2. Product Ownership & Requirement Refinement

  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather and refine requirements
  • Convert business needs into:
    • User stories
    • Functional/technical specifications
  • Drive clarity in ambiguous problem statements
  • Ensure requirements are implementation-ready for development

3. Agile Delivery & Execution

  • Act as an Individual Contributor within Agile PODs
  • Participate actively in:
    • Sprint planning
    • Backlog refinement
    • Daily stand-ups
    • Retrospectives
  • Prioritize work based on business value and technical feasibility
  • Take ownership of end-to-end delivery of solutions

4. Data & Platform Thinking

  • Work with structured/unstructured data to derive insights and automation opportunities
  • Design scalable solutions aligned with platform architecture
  • Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and performance

5. Cross-functional Collaboration

  • Partner with:
    • Product teams
    • Engineering teams
    • Business stakeholders
  • Serve as a bridge between technical and non-technical teams
  • Communicate solutions clearly to leadership

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:

Experience

  • Minimum 5+ years of experience in:
    • Technical Product Management / Technical Lead roles
    • OR Software Engineering with strong product exposure
  • Proven experience working in Agile environments

Technical Skills (Mandatory)

  • Strong hands-on development experience in:
    • Python
  • Deep expertise in:
    • Pandas (data manipulation)
    • DuckDB (analytics/data querying)
  • Experience building APIs using:
    • FastAPI
  • Strong understanding of:
    • Data processing pipelines
    • Performance optimization
    • Debugging and troubleshooting

Product & Agile Skills

  • Strong understanding of:
    • Product lifecycle
    • Agile methodologies
  • Ability to:
    • Write clear user stories
    • Drive backlog refinement
    • Prioritize effectively

Domain Knowledge (Preferred)

  • Experience in:
    • Travel industry
    • Cruise / booking / reservation systems
  • Understanding of:
    • End-to-end travel journeys (search, booking, payments)

Soft Skills

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management
  • Ability to operate independently as an IC
  • High ownership and accountability

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.

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!

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.

Royal Caribbean Group

About Royal Caribbean Group

At Royal Caribbean Group, we deliver unforgettable vacations to guests who trust us with life’s greatest moments. We build the best ships, and even better careers, all while doing the right thing. We are passionate. We are innovative. We are unstoppable. We open the world to our employees. Your journey is our journey — chart your own course. Journey with us!

Our culture: 

What sets the Group apart is the multicultural environment we create with employees from over 126 countries. We cultivate a workplace where employees feel they can be themselves, are appreciated because of their differences and are empowered to become part of the fabric of the Group. We have been repeatedly recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. For us, it’s a simple three-word phrase: Make good choices. Our employees have a commitment to compliance, doing the right thing and integrity. 

Our brands: 

Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL) is a cruise vacation company comprised of three award-winning global brands: Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises. Royal Caribbean Group is also a 50% owner of a joint venture that operates TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. Together, our brands operate a global fleet traveling to more than 800 destinations worldwide.

Our promise: 

We deliver the best vacation experiences, responsibly. Every one of our values and actions flows from this promise. To operate the safest ships on the seas. To protect the oceans we sail. To put people and communities first in everything we do. Find out more here - https://www.royalcaribbeangroup.com/bluegreenpromise/

Link to the careers page: https://careers.royalcaribbeangroup.com/

Industry
Travel & Hospitality
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Miami, Florida
Year Founded
Unknown
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