senior manager, Product Innovation and Menu Strategy

Starbucks • Seattle, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for identifying consumer and product trends, uncovering whitespace opportunities, and partnering cross-functionally to bring new product innovation territories to life. You’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our portfolio by driving bold ideas, vetting new product innovation territories through consumer research and small-scale testing, and helping to ensure our pipeline reflects evolving consumer needs.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in innovation development and/or product strategy
• Excellent strategic storytelling and communication skills with the ability to influence senior leadership
• High tolerance for ambiguity paired with strong creative problem-solving skills and a bias for action
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex projects while balancing multiple priorities and deadlines
• Strong understanding of consumer insights and market dynamics
• A deep curiosity and passion for customer experience, culture, and emerging beverage trends
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• MBA preferred

Responsibilities

• Drive strategy and development of our multi-year beverage innovation pipeline
• Identify early market, whitespace opportunities through consumer insights, market analysis, and competitive benchmarking
• Shape how Starbucks wins in prioritized early market, whitespace innovation territories
• Monitor emerging global and domestic trends that will have a material impact on the Starbucks business
• Translate insights into actionable product innovation territories and concepts
• Guide iterative testing of prototypes to better understand product concept desirability and pressure-test innovation territory design principles and ways in
• Partner with Research and Development on product briefs, outline design principles, and propose ways in for identified innovation territories
• Partner with internal and external research teams to develop research briefs and learning plans
• Seamlessly hand off validated innovation territories to Product Category Business teams

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%25 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

What This Job Offers

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