product manager, Engineering Deployment & Scale-up

Starbucks • Seattle, WA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Product Manager on Starbucks’ Engineering Deployment & Scale-up team, you will help transform the business by improving productivity, customer and partner experiences, sustainability, and food and beverage quality. You will help deliver major initiatives at scale in engine strategy, equipment, and packaging.

The role involves identifying opportunities based on consumer, partner, and marketplace understanding; defining product briefs and measurable success criteria; leading cross-functional teams through ambiguity; evaluating equipment innovation; and guiding testing and rollout to achieve productivity improvements, cost savings, and reduced complexity. Starbucks works onsite four days a week.

Requirements

• Experience leading multiple projects, with demonstrated success driving team engagement.
• Proven ability to influence and mobilize cross-functional teams to bring initiatives to market.
• Ability to create clarity and organizational focus.
• Ability to influence peers and leadership to meet strategic objectives and drive effective execution.
• Ability to develop and use strategy to lead complex, ambiguous business priorities, supported by clear communication and execution plans.
• Ability to make complex, ambiguous financial business decisions and a track record of considering possibilities rather than restrictions.
• Basic understanding of technology and ability to work effectively with cross-functional technical partners.
• Success creating a welcoming team environment aligned with Starbucks’ Mission and Values.
• Bachelor’s degree or at least four years of U.S. military experience.
• 3–5 years of progressive experience in product or brand management.
• 3–5 years of project leadership in a cross-functional environment.

Responsibilities

• Build a holistic understanding of consumers, partners, and the marketplace to identify opportunities for competitive advantage.
• Define product briefs and quantify problems to help engineering develop solutions with clear KPIs and success criteria.
• Lead cross-functional teams through ambiguity to bring major ideas to life.
• Evaluate, prioritize, and lead decisions about equipment innovation based on customer and partner needs, financial viability, technical feasibility, sustainability goals, and brand fit.
• Lead testing and rollout approaches for equipment innovation to improve productivity, save costs, and reduce complexity.

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
• Accrued sick time
• Eight paid holidays and two personal days per year
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match for eligible partners
• Discounted company stock program (S.I.P.)
• Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock)
• Incentivized emergency savings and financial well-being tools
• 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
• DACA reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level