Job Description
At Carnival UK, we’re committed to delivering a connected, end-to-end guest journey that spans booking, onboard experiences, and beyond.
We are seeking a Product Director to shape this vision, ensuring our guests enjoy a truly integrated experience supported by innovative technology and product leadership.
Your focus will be on driving integration and creating a seamless experience from pre-cruise through onboard and shore environments. This includes transforming our web and commerce platforms to deliver a frictionless booking and purchasing experience.
Responsibilities
* Provide strategic leadership and product vision across platforms that underpin the guest journey.
* Own and communicate the strategic product roadmap, vision, and backlog to the business and wider team.
* Lead and coach a team of Product Managers/Owners to deliver a centre of excellence for Product.
* Champion composable architecture principles and oversee the first-ever launch of a native guest app.
* Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver exceptional results.
Job Requirements
This role demands a blend of strategic vision & technical expertise. We’re looking for someone with:
* Proven experience in product management and transformation within an Enterprise Organisation.
* Knowledge of composable architecture and modern ecosystems.
* Experience launching native apps and managing large-scale commerce platforms.
* Certified Agile qualification (essential).
* Hands‑on leadership style with ability to inspire and coach teams.
* Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
* Collaborative mindset and cultural fit: one team, one vision.
Why Join Us?
Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK05, offered as a full‑time position, on a fixed‑term basis for 2 years, with an offering of hybrid work including up to two days from home.
We’re more than just a holiday company; we’re a community that values work‑life balance, personal growth, and wellbeing. As part of our team, you’ll enjoy:
* Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
* Annual bonus
* Car allowance
* Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
* Employee-led networks
* Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
* Company paid private medical and dental insurance and health assessment
* In‑house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP
* Life Assurance
* Employee Shares Plan
* Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes
* Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal
Application Note
Due to the high volume of interest in our roles, we encourage early applications. This is your chance to contribute to a company that’s setting the standard for holiday experiences. Apply today to be part of our journey to create joy and memories for our guests—and for you.
Don’t let this opportunity sail away. Join us in making holiday dreams come true while advancing your career to new horizons.
Recruitment Journey
For more information on your recruitment journey, please visit https://bit.ly/CUKCandidateJourney.
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About Us
Holidays are one of life’s greatest pleasures. Having the chance to relax, escape and explore is a magical thing. And there is no better holiday than a cruise.
No one knows cruising like Carnival UK, where talented people from across the globe come together to create unforgettable holiday happiness. As part of the world’s largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britain’s rich seafaring heritage, P&O Cruises and Cunard. Collectively they have been delivering unbridled joy, boundless adventure and lifelong memories to millions of people for over 350 years. And in a multi-million pound global holiday market, where cruising has barely scratched the surface, we have the opportunity to do that for many, many more people.
Our diverse yet tight knit teams share high standards, heartfelt values and passion for our purpose. Our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion.
It’s through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture that we hope to become Travel’s Employer of Choice.
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