associate product manager, Lobby Innovation

Starbucks • Seattle, WA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

As an associate product manager, Lobby Innovation, you will be part of a dynamic and entrepreneurial team responsible for packaged products sold in our coffeehouse lobbies, including Ready-to-Eat, Ready-to-Drink, and packaged At-Home Coffee. This role enables disciplined execution across promotions, categories, and product performance, with a primary day-to-day focus on our Retail North America At-Home Coffee business. You will support promotional readiness, project management, reporting, and cross-functional coordination while helping the team build repeatable ways to evaluate performance and inform future portfolio decisions. We are looking for a candidate who is nimble, proactive, analytical, able to multitask and enjoys problem-solving, with a focus on the customer. Bring your relentless curiosity, strategic expertise, attention to detail, and passion for retail.

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a role supporting marketing, brand management, product management, commercialization, or operations
• Strong analytical/reporting skills with proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and persuasively
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Ability and willingness to navigate change and ambiguity

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience working in CPG or retail product development preferred
• Minimum of 1 year of project leadership experience preferred
• Minimum of 2 years of progressive analytical experience in product or marketing preferred

Responsibilities

• Support and provide recommendations regarding product objectives and strategy (e.g. launch timing, placement, pricing, assortment, and promotional cadence) within our packaged At-Home Coffee category.
• Assist in researching customer, category, competitive, and operational signals and translates data and insights into logical, compelling recommendations.
• Represent the Lobby Innovation team in cross-functional forums, including Marketing, Planning, Operations, Sourcing, Supply Chain, and Finance.
• Support the RNA At-Home Coffee commercialization process from concept to launch working closely with cross-functional partners through feasibility, operations, product development, planning and forecasting, and launch-readiness reviews.
• Provide primary day-to-day execution support for RNA At-Home Coffee, including assortment inputs, product and launch documentation, systems management, and cross-functional communication.
• Assist in writing and developing product and packaging creative briefs with a lens on customer need-states, category opportunity, operational feasibility, and business potential.
• Support delivery of products for each promotional window, including product direction, launch documentation, and inputs into supply chain requirements.
• Maintain cross-functional workback plans, launch trackers, milestone schedules, decision logs, and recap documents.
• Support lobby innovation team with readiness tracking, issue escalation, and launch documentation by promotion and category.
• Manage promotional inputs and multiple reviews for in-store signage and coffeehouse product communications.
• Build and maintain standardized KPI templates, reporting inputs, meeting cadences, and team operating routines.
• Assist in compiling promotional and category performance readouts
• Supports monthly performance reviews, seasonal RNA At-Home coffee pipeline reviews, post-promotion recaps and retrospectives.
• Synthesize inputs across functions into clear status updates, risks, decisions required and recommended next steps.
• Help capture portfolio learnings to clarify what to scale, what to iterate, what to stop, and what should inform future pipeline development.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits
• short-term and long-term disability
• paid parental leave
• family expansion reimbursement
• paid vacation from date of hire
• sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked)
• eight paid holidays
• two personal days per year
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• discounted company stock program (S.I.P.)
• Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock)
• incentivized emergency savings
• financial well-being tools
• 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through Arizona State University’s online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan
• student loan management resources
• access to other educational opportunities
• backup care
• DACA reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed