Royal Caribbean Cruises - Miami, FL
posted 3 months ago
Journey with us! Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our exciting team of employees at Royal Caribbean Group. The Design Director provides a primary leadership role and expertise to the new building projects as assigned by the EVP of New Buildings. In doing so, the incumbent continually directs the activities of architects, designers, and computer-aided design professionals to achieve brand-specific design concept goals for the various brands. This role also serves as a conduit of information and intelligence from the corporation and/or the brand to the design staff and outside architects/design firms, ensuring the success of these groups. The Design Director is responsible for directing, developing, and maintaining the entire overall design process for all assigned projects, forming and maintaining brand-specific design concepts. This includes ensuring that brand concepts are apparent and credible, fulfilling the voice of the Corporation and each Brand, which continues our culture of design innovation. The Director fosters and leads highly collaborative forums used in developing total brand conceptual programs per ship and class, striving for unique first-in-class design thinking. Participation in Brand Think Tank groups with representatives of other departments and functions as a creative design leader is also a key aspect of this role. In addition, the Design Director evaluates the talent and effort of architects, designers, and consultants, monitors the quality and suitability of their work, and ensures that design goals are met. Effective communication of brand concepts to global building site offices and shipyards is essential, as is leading troubleshooting issues and resolving related matters. The Director presents large to small-scale presentations at the executive level and other groups using a variety of media to compellingly convey design and give recommendations. Working with subordinate managers and staff members to achieve on-time, on-cost, and high-quality delivery of department projects is also a critical responsibility. The role includes analyzing and comparing statistics, ratios, and other metrics of various ships within our fleet and across our competition, bringing forth observations, conclusions, and recommendations.