associate product manager, Beverage

Starbucks • Seattle, WA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Associate Product Manager, Beverage, supports the team responsible for handcrafted refreshment beverages served in Starbucks retail coffeehouses. The role enables disciplined execution across promotions, categories, and product performance, supporting promotional readiness, project management, reporting, and cross-functional coordination. The position also helps establish repeatable approaches to evaluating performance and informing future portfolio decisions.

The role supports product objectives and strategy, research and analysis, beverage commercialization, seasonal promotions, go-to-market readiness, and performance management. It works closely with partners across Marketing, Planning, Operations, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Finance, product development, and other functions. The successful candidate is nimble, proactive, analytical, detail-oriented, comfortable multitasking and navigating ambiguity, and focused on customer needs and retail.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience in a role supporting marketing, brand management, product management, commercialization, or operations.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills, with proficiency in Microsoft 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.
• Ability to work in a matrixed environment and collaborate cross-functionally.
• Embody Starbucks mission and values.

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience working in retail product development.
• At least 1 year of project leadership experience.
• At least 2 years of progressive analytical experience in product or marketing.

Responsibilities

• Support product objectives and strategy recommendations, including launch timing, placement, pricing, assortment, and promotional cadence for the Refreshment beverage category and seasonal promotions.
• Research customer, category, competitive, and operational signals and translate data and insights into recommendations.
• Represent Beverage in cross-functional forums, including Marketing, Planning, Operations, Sourcing, Supply Chain, and Finance.
• Support commercialization of refreshment-category beverages and seasonal promotions from concept to launch, working with cross-functional partners on feasibility, operations, product development, planning and forecasting, and launch-readiness reviews.
• Provide day-to-day execution support for refreshment beverage category and seasonal promotions, including assortment inputs, product and launch documentation, systems management, and cross-functional communication.
• Assist in writing and developing creative briefs that consider 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 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.
• Synthesize cross-functional inputs into clear status updates, risks, decisions required, and recommended next steps.
• Capture portfolio learnings to clarify what to scale, iterate, or stop, and what should inform future pipeline development.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 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 and two personal days per year.
• Eligible partners may participate in a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Discounted company stock program (S.I.P.).
• Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock).
• Incentivized emergency savings and 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 and access to other educational opportunities.
• Backup care and DACA reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

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