senior manager, Product, International Brand
About The Position
As a senior manager at Starbucks, you will lead international product strategy and integration efforts that bring clarity, consistency, and impact to our brand across 90 global markets. We’re looking for a thoughtful, sharp, and agile senior manager to join the International Brand team to directly support our Product vertical. In this role, you’ll be a critical player in making global product innovation work smarter and faster, fueled by collective insight. Your role is to help us connect dots across the Beverage, Food, and Merchandise categories, and elevate the work emerging from international markets to inform global brand strategy. This is a unique opportunity to sit at the intersection of brand, product, and geography – and help scale ideas, frameworks, and insights across one of the world’s most recognizable consumer brands.
Requirements
- 6-8+ years in product, strategy, insights, or brand management roles – ideally within Food & Beverage, retail, CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods), or global multi-market businesses
- Strong experience navigating matrixed orgs and managing through influence
- Ability to build trust, credibility, and strong relationships with cross-functional partners at all levels within the organization
- A strategic lens – but also highly organized and operational
- Strong written and verbal storytelling skills – this role translates insights into impact
- Ability to handle ambiguity while translating ideas and/or problems to solve into action
- Curiosity, flexibility, and a bias towards action – we’re a lean team with a broad remit
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related work experience
Nice To Haves
- experience working with international teams, or in global-to-regional roles
Responsibilities
- Manage product innovation and category forums that connect global and regional teams, ensuring visibility and coordination among regions to inform strategies and decision making.
- Lead global product initiatives and develop program implementation strategies and supporting toolkits for international markets.
- Develop and drive strategic product innovation and portfolio direction for global, regional, and market programming and initiatives. Track trends, customer insights, and innovation performance across business units to help identify what’s gaining traction and what might scale across markets.
- Inspire and influence cross-functional and cross-regional stakeholders via partnership with support center, regional, and product -based teams to drive meaningful action to reach their full potential.
- Develop and maintain standards and best practices for the development, launch, and optimization of Starbucks product.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
