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The Royal Caribbean Group’s Global eCommerce Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Design Operations Lead reporting to the Director User Experience

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This position will work onsite in Miami Florida

Position Summary:

This position plays a critical role in ensuring the smooth operation of the User Experience (UX) User Research (UXR) and eCommerce Product Insights (ePI) teams within the organization and will be key in maximizing the impact of team initiatives by bridging the gap between UX/UXR and cross-functioning teams

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for UX/UXR operations coordinating and facilitating cross-functional collaboration between research design development and other stakeholders

• Act as a bridge between UX/UXR and other departments promoting a user-centric approach and advocating for the importance of UX/UXR in product development

• Manage intake and stakeholder communication for UX and UR projects

• Collaborate with stakeholders and teams to ensure timely delivery of milestones managing resource allocation and workload balancing

• Identify bottlenecks pain points and areas for improvement in the UX/UR workflow and proactively address them

• Develop implement and maintain UX/UXR operational standards guidelines and best practices

• Facilitate execution of scopes of work contracts and any other paperwork while ensuring adherence to budget

• Provide mentorship guidance and support to UX/UXR team members fostering their professional growth and promoting a culture of learning and innovation

• Stay informed about emerging UX trends technologies and methodologies and share knowledge and expertise with the team

• Must have 4 years working directly on or with a UX/UXR/VoC team within a corporate setting

• Must have experience leading a complex project with multiple stakeholders from start to finish

• Must have understanding of entire Human Centered Design process and role of usablity testing

• Must have experience leading a cross-functional team through various projects simultaneously

• Must have proficiency in communicating updates on a large scale

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Project Management/PMP or similar

• Experience working on large-scale travel retail and/or e-commerce experiences

• Experience working with/coordinating cross-functional research design product and engineering teams
• Located in Miami/South Florida and ability to work on location

Mindset

• You are collaborative flexible and accountable all at once
• You are a communicator who is able to concisely distribute timely cross-functional updates

• You are a leader with the ability to inspire and motivate a team towards a shared goal

• You are a Systems Thinker that advocates for holistic consistent and scalable solutions

• You are a self-starter who is always upskilling and looking for new tools and techniques

• You are a proactive problem solver who volunteers to help educate and support others

• Willingness to be hands on within a fast-paced environment who doesn’t sacrifice quality

• Employee Cruise Discounts and Family and Friend Discount Programs

• Company Social Events Gym Memberships Discounted Lunches and Snacks

• Health Vision Dental Disability and Life Insurance benefits along with Employee Assistance Program
• 401k Employee Stock Purchase Plan and Performance Bonuses

• Family and Parenting Benefits Medical Leave and Adoption Assistance

• Paid Vacation and Holidays

• Professional Development Tuition Reimbursement Job Training and Employee Resource Groups

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

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