lead digital designer, Starbucks Technology
About The Position
This critical role will be part of the Partner Experience Design team, responsible for designing and enhancing digital experiences used by Starbucks partners across stores and support organizations. The team collaborates closely with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to identify partner needs, define experience strategies, and deliver intuitive, scalable solutions. In addition, the team serves as a strategic partner throughout the product development lifecycle, ensuring partner-facing applications are human-centered, operationally effective, and aligned to both business and technology objectives.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience of UX design for digital products
- 3+ years experience designing products using a design system
- 1+ years experience overseeing the development or maintenance of a design system
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Self-starter able to work in an agile environment with other disciplines in quick design loops
- Experience mentoring other designers and giving actionable design feedback
- Experience leading cross-team efforts and collaborating with engineering, design and product management.
- Experience designing for iOS
- Familiarity with relevant front-end technologies (HTML/CSS/Javascript) and their affordances and limitations
- Solid communication skills, written and verbal
- Experience with design languages and human interface guidelines and are familiar with frameworks, components and patterns -- ideally as both a designer and system creator.
- Used to dealing with ambiguity and love solving ambitious problems in an agile, iterative manner.
- Strong knowledge of interaction and visual design as well as familiarity with information architecture.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and have experience aligning teams and stakeholders by persuasion and influence.
Responsibilities
- Define the core elements of the Starbucks Retail Design System, specifying UX, visual, interaction and motion elements as well as documenting behaviors and usage guidelines.
- Cultivate internal knowledge around the design system by serving as a subject matter expert to contributing teams who are building additions to the design system.
- Utilize collaborative leadership skills to facilitate the adoption of the design system and ensure the best outcome for stakeholders.
- Work within a product delivery team to understand the experience we are building for our partners. The result of this work will be used by every store partner in North America.
- Be comfortable thinking in terms of systems, connecting and making relationships across multiple teams and experiences.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- basic and supplemental life insurance
- 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
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
