senior manager, product - Equipment Strategy

About the role

Now Brewing – senior manager, product - Equipment Strategy! #tobeapartner From the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that not only celebrated coffee and the rich tradition, but that also brought a feeling of connection. We are known for developing extraordinary leaders who share this passion and are guided by their service to others. As a senior manager on the equipment strategy team, you will lead the work that connects future coffeehouse experiences, partner workflows, and enterprise equipment decisions. Equipment plays a critical role in enabling product innovation, operational efficiency, partner experience, and customer connection at scale. We are looking for a strategic, technically curious leader who can evaluate complex operational needs, translate insights into equipment and workflow strategies, and help shape the future-state coffeehouse ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Shape equipment strategy for the future coffeehouse – develop strategic recommendations that connect equipment capabilities, operating models, partner workflows, and customer experience priorities; evaluate emerging needs across coffeehouses and monitor market, supplier, and technology trends to identify opportunities that support growth, productivity, and operational simplicity; contribute to annual planning and forecasting, shaping portfolio-level strategies and capital investment recommendations for equipment and related programs.
• Translate complex problems into actionable business recommendations – use customer, partner, operational, financial, and technical inputs to assess tradeoffs, build business cases, and frame clear recommendations; bring structure to ambiguous problems, synthesize quantitative and qualitative insights, and support leadership decisions with rigorous analysis and strategic storytelling.
• Lead cross-functional equipment planning and commercialization work – partner across Retail Operations, Product, Engineering, Coffeehouse Development, Finance, Supply Chain, Store Development, Technology, and Customer Experience to define equipment requirements, align priorities, and support test-and-learn