*must be local to Seattle*
Top Candidate Skills
1 Hardware technology 4+
2 Technical product management 4+
3 Communication 4+
Years experience?:
• 4+
Required background? Skills?:
• Detailed and results-oriented, able to analyze data to justify product decisions and apply key learnings
• Ability to apply knowledge of business principles and practices to achieve successful outcomes in cross-functional projects and activities
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Consistently uses communications skills to influence outcomes within a known skill set
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Strong knowledge of agile development practices, methodologies, and tools
• Technical knowledge in web and mobile applications
• Knowledgeable of agile/scrum methodology and user centric design; may be certified product owner; may collaborate with PMO/scrum master on project methodology to highlight issues and help as needed for product lifecycle
• Demonstrated ability to use analytics and optimization tools to inform product planning and prioritization (4 years)
• Demonstrated ability to work with design and engineering to deliver customer facing features (4 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 (4 years)
• Industry experience in a technology environment with a record of successfully delivering complex products (4+ years)
Nice-to-Haves:
• Love to have some diversity with Genders (looking for possibly more female candidates)
• Need to be innovative
Technology requirements?:
• POS Registers and Peripheral Equipment
• Payment and Cash Management Hardware
• Production Fulfillment Hardware
• In-Store Music Service and Hardware
• Digital Menu/Surfaces Hardware and Digital Experiences
• Drive Thru Technology – headsets, timers, expeditors, digital order, etc.
• Edge Compute hardware and cameras
Degree or certifications required?:
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or relevant field
Duration:
• Chance for extension or conversion Duration: ~ 7 months
Possibility for Extension or conversion: Possibly
Daily Responsibilities:
Product Definition & Value
• Responsible for determining business needs, understanding market demands and technical trends, problem solving and proposing solutions
• Align with business partners to balance business and technical objectives and manifest these as clear, stable priorities for the team
• Manages product planning through day-to-day collaboration and decision making with a cross-functional team including engineers and business partners
• Defines non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, resilience, usability, accessibility, security, and business continuity
• Defines product health and performance metrics
• Creates dashboard/reporting requirements and KPIs to measure product performance
• Identifies opportunities to improve feature performance and overall product health using data
• Measures feature success post deployment and feeds insights back to the team and business partners
Communication and Collaboration
• Interacts directly with business stakeholders to understand business problems
• Presents options/recommendations clearly and persuasively to support business stakeholder decisions
• Works with engineering teams to understand, prioritize and document technical and non-functional features
• Owns effective relationships with engineering teams across Starbucks Technology
Product Planning & Delivery
• Practices iterative, agile development
• Identifies and documents technical tradeoffs as well as dependencies and constraints
• Performs validation of feature against stated goals; facilitates user review/acceptance testing
• Manages execution and eliminates blocking issues during development
• Works with cross-functional teams on feature sizing and delivery planning
• Effective communications of product delivery milestones and progress
Team culture/work environment:
• Pretty tight knit team, super smart and work together
• Hybrid team
Key projects:
• This role will recognize and articulate business problems or opportunities, define target metrics, and create well-formed epics or user stories for engineering teams, who can then design, build, release, and monitor technical solutions efficiently
• Taking a look at the landscape and make the most strategic sense
Hybrid work space (local candidates)
Required Skills :
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :Yes
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :Other Project Type
Master Job Title :Misc: Non-Technical
Branch Code :Seattle