product manager, Engineering Deployment & Scale-up

Starbucks Coffee Company•Seattle, WA

5d•$109,300 - $178,300•Onsite

About The Position

As a Product Manager on Starbucks’ Engineering Deployment & Scale-up team, you will help transform the business by driving productivity improvements, enhancing customer and partner experiences, supporting sustainability goals, and improving food and beverage quality. You will help bring Starbucks’ strategic ambitions to life at scale across engine strategy, equipment, and packaging. The role involves identifying opportunities, defining product problems and success measures, leading cross-functional teams, making equipment innovation decisions, and guiding testing and rollout.

Requirements

Experience leading multiple projects, with proven success in driving team engagement.
Proven ability to influence and mobilize cross-functional teams to bring initiatives to market.
Strength in driving clarity and organizational focus.
Ability to influence peers and leadership to meet strategic objectives and drive effective execution.
Ability to create and use strategy to lead highly complex, ambiguous business priorities with clear communication and execution plans.
Ability to make decisions involving highly ambiguous and complex financial business issues, with a track record of focusing on possibilities rather than restrictions.
Basic understanding of technology and ability to work effectively with cross-functional technical partners.
Success in 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

Develop a holistic understanding of consumers, partners, and the marketplace to identify opportunities that build Starbucks’ 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 big 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 the testing and rollout approach for equipment innovation to improve productivity, reduce costs, and reduce complexity.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Basic and supplemental life insurance and other voluntary insurance benefits.
Short- and long-term disability.
Paid parental leave and family expansion reimbursement.
Paid vacation from date of hire, sick time, 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.) and 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.