director, coffeehouse development - Mid Atlantic
Starbucks Coffee Company•Gaston, SC
•$165,800 - $319,000
About The Position
As director, coffeehouse development, you will lead the strategic planning and execution of new coffeehouse development within an assigned geographic region. You will guide a cross-functional team of Real Estate, Design, and Construction partners to deliver the company's growth agenda from site identification through opening. As a strategic partner to senior leadership, you will help shape market plans, investment decisions, and project execution while aligning growth with brand standards, financial objectives, customer experience expectations, and long-term business goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Real Estate, Finance, Urban Planning, or related field.
- Expertise in real estate development and growth strategy
- Knowledge of site selection, market planning, entitlements, permitting, design, and construction processes
- Strong financial and business acumen
- Ability to evaluate development investments and growth opportunities
- Executive presence and influence skills
- Strong negotiation and relationship-building capabilities
- Ability to lead through ambiguity and organizational change
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to manage multiple large-scale development initiatives simultaneously
- Strong project governance and risk management capabilities
- Leading multi-disciplinary development organizations: 10+ years
- Real estate development, site selection, or market planning: 10+ years
- Strategic planning and business growth leadership: 10+ years
- Leading large-scale retail, hospitality, restaurant, or consumer-facing development programs: 8+ years
- Design and construction management: 7+ years
- Leading cross-functional teams and complex stakeholder environments: 7+ years
- Financial analysis, capital planning, and investment evaluation: 5+ years
Responsibilities
- Lead market growth, site selection, and portfolio development strategies to support scalable business expansion.
- Direct Real Estate, Design, and Construction teams to deliver successful coffeehouse openings from strategy through execution.
- Build and develop high-performing teams while optimizing investments, improving efficiency, and accelerating speed to market.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
