sr designer, Digital Products
About The Position
Starbucks is seeking a Senior Designer for their Digital UX & Design team. This role focuses on designing and delivering world-class digital experiences across mobile, web, and in-store platforms. The designer will influence how millions of customers interact with Starbucks daily, from ordering drinks to managing loyalty programs. The position requires a hands-on designer who excels in collaboration, balances aesthetics with functionality, and prioritizes accessible, beautiful, and impactful digital experiences. The role involves actively contributing to design projects, working with cross-functional teams, and creating user-friendly digital interfaces.
Requirements
- 3+ years of customer-facing digital product design experience, ideally at scale with design-driven brands, tech companies, or agencies.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating interaction design, systems thinking, and high-quality visual design.
- Experience shipping features and experiments in agile, fast-paced environments, including data-informed design decisions.
- Experience collaborating closely with developers to ensure functional excellence and pixel-perfect execution.
- Hands-on expertise with modern design tools such as Figma for prototyping, iteration, and collaboration.
- Awareness of emerging digital design trends, with the ability to thoughtfully apply them in a brand-led environment.
- Ability to communicate concepts and design rationale clearly—visually, verbally, and in writing.
- Previously designed for native mobile OS and possess knowledge of platform-specific guidelines.
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing for retail, eCommerce, loyalty programs, or mobile ordering platforms.
- Experience designing with and for AI-powered features.
- Familiarity with accessibility standards and inclusive design practices.
- Advanced prototyping skills.
Responsibilities
- Design innovative features and experiences millions of people engage with every day.
- Create modern and intuitive UX and UI that scale across platforms by leveraging an end-to end design process that includes concepting, sketching, designing and prototyping.
- Collaborate closely with researchers, data scientists, product owners, creative studio designers and engineers to design, test and deliver major customer features across app and web.
- Influence Starbuck’s product strategies through strong design explorations and rationale, connecting decisions to customer and business impact.
- Contribute to design systems, ensuring visual consistency, accessibility, and brand integrity.
- Contribute feedback and active discussions to elevate the collective quality of the design team’s work.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, balancing rapid iteration with thoughtful craft.
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
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
