Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Starbucks is a company known for celebrating coffee and rich tradition while fostering a sense of connection. They are seeking an Intermediate Technical Product Manager to identify business problems and opportunities, define success metrics, and translate needs into clear epics and user stories for engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Define product value and direction by aligning business and technical objectives, setting clear priorities, and establishing product health/performance metrics and KPIs
- Translate needs into buildable work by writing well-formed epics/user stories, defining acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, resilience, usability, accessibility, security, continuity), and clarifying tradeoffs, dependencies, and constraints
- Drive delivery and outcomes through iterative Agile practices, partnering with design and engineering on sizing and planning, removing blockers, facilitating user review/acceptance, and measuring feature success post-launch to improve product health
Skills
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience in a related field)
- 7+ years delivering complex products in a technology environment
- 5+ years using analytics/optimization tools to inform product planning and prioritization
- 5+ years partnering with design and engineering to deliver customer-facing features, including building roadmaps/backlogs and writing/refining user stories
- Supply chain planning experience a must (supply and demand planning)
- 7+ years delivering complex products in a technology environment, including cross-team roadmaps and technically complex features
- Recent experience building for web and/or mobile, and ability to read/understand code (prior programming experience a plus)
- 5+ years of hands-on product planning: technical roadmaps, story outlines, acceptance criteria, and backlog refinement at scale
- Strong ability to influence without authority, communicate clearly, and stay organized while managing competing priorities; deep familiarity with Agile practices and tools
- Experience designing solutions/configuring planning platforms such as o9, SAP, Oracle, Anaplan or others and integrating them with ERP systems
- Knowledge of APIs, data interfaces, ETL processes, and other integration mechanisms used to connect planning and operational systems
- Familiarity with Databricks and experience supporting data pipelines and data validation activities
- Ability to work closely with data engineering teams to define data requirements, validate data flows, and support initiatives
- Experience with data mapping, data governance, interface validation, and integration testing activities
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
- Participation in a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- A 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
- Access to backup care and DACA reimbursement
- Vacation accrual up to a maximum of 120 hours (190 in CA) for roles below director and 200 hours (316 in CA) for roles at director or above in CA, and 120 hours annually for roles below director and 200 hours annually for roles director and above in other states
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