Duration: 12 Months
Location: Seattle WA (Hybrid Onsite)
Role Specific
We are looking for a strong TPM to lead the effort of building out
several business-critical enterprise initiatives.
Design Standards Tool (DST) is an equipment right-sizing tool that helps
Store Designers and Field Leaders make data-driven decisions for store
equipment and station investments. The DST plans for up to 5 years
growth leveraging a DAIBO modeling framework. It includes new stores and
renovations across both Company Operated and Licensed Stores.
The SD Project Scorecard is a new tool folded into the existing Store
Development process in support of brand excellence and adherence to
standard. For new stores and renovations, it enables: Benchmark design
excellence against current standards & drive adherence. Supported by: Visual Guidance with links to standards as reference and scoring thresholds to determine path forward.
Job Summary and Mission
Starbucks as a company is all about creating a culture of warmth and
belonging, acting with courage, and delivering our very best. We are
performance driven through the lens of humanity. When you work with us
you hold Starbucks legacy. Our mission: Inspiring and nurturing the
human spirit – one person, one cup, one neighborhood at a time. We are
looking for someone who is not only passionate around design but
embodies the Starbucks mission and values.
This position contributes to Starbucks success by assuming end-to-end
responsibility for the strategic value, usability, and performance of
multiple Data, Analytics, Insights, and Business Operations data
products. We design, build, and nurture a digital ecosystem that elevates the Starbucks brand and grows our business by amplifying human connections, relationships, and experiences. To be successful, the Senior Technical Product Manager, needs to have significant technical acumen and experience along with a passion for delighting product users with simple solutions and engaging data driven digital experiences.
Summary of Key Responsibilities
• Manages product planning and development through day-to-day
collaboration and decision making with a cross functional team including
architects, developers, designers and business or subject matter
representatives.
• Translates customer experience into technical requirements and product
solutions.
• Drives technical solution for large features/technically complex
features independently.
• Is technically adept on end-to-end system architecture.
• Creates data flows and functional and technical specifications as
needed.
• Responsible for defining the acceptance criteria of a product feature.
• Responsible for documentation of requirements, and acceptance criteria
per process, provides guidance to others in working team.
• Works with producers, engineering, and QA to align on feature sizing
and delivery planning.
• Ensures engineering team has needed information on endpoints, inputs,
and outputs.
• Helps resolve technical blocking issues and coordinates solutions
across multiple technical teams.
• Performs validation of feature against customer and business goals and
acceptance criteria.
• Determines technical feasibility, dependencies, and constraints of
features with support from neighboring technology teams as needed.
• Communicates effectively with technology and business teams
independently.
• Defines product performance and effectiveness metrics that measure and
benchmark product success.
• Monitors feature performance to find opportunities to address
continuous improvement.
o Drives optimization and process improvements between product, design,
and development teams.
o Stays abreast of new technology capabilities and leverages knowledge
in contributing to product solutions.
• Recommends and plans innovative products and features.
• Works with other product managers to scope and prioritize upcoming
projects into the roadmap.
• Manages a cross-team digital product roadmap.
Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to use analytics and optimization tools to inform
product planning and prioritization (5 years).
• Demonstrated ability to work with design and engineering to deliver customer facing features (5 years). • Hands on experience in developing roadmaps, priorities, features, story outlines, writing user stories, refining product backlogs, and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast-paced, changing environment with variety of stakeholders (5 years). • Industry experience in a technology environment with a record of successfully delivering complex products (7+ years).
Preferred Qualifications
• 7+ years of industry experience in a technology environment with a
record of successfully delivering complex products.
• Recent experience in building applications in the enterprise data
space.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, ability to quickly
master new systems and/or processes, capacity to stay organized while
managing competing priorities.
• Hands on experience in developing technical roadmaps, story outlines,
writing user stories, refining product backlogs, and
coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast-paced,
changing environment.
• Detail-and results-oriented, able to analyze data to justify product
decisions and apply key learnings.
• Ability to thoroughly understand complex business and technical issues
and influence decision making.
• Ability to apply knowledge of multidisciplinary business principles
and practices to achieve successful outcomes in cross-functional
projects and activities.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Strong knowledge of agile development practices, methodologies, and
tools.
• Technical knowledge in web and mobile applications preferred.
• Technical knowledge in data visualizations and reporting preferred.
• Prior programming experience, or enterprise architecture a plus.
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Thanks
Sameer Sharma
sameer@empowerprofessionals.com
