Starbucks Corporation

digital designer lead - ST

Starbucks Corporation$90K — $120K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of UX design experience for digital products
  • 3+ years of experience with design systems
  • 1+ year overseeing development or maintenance of design systems
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Experience mentoring designers and providing actionable feedback
  • Ability to collaborate across teams in agile environments
  • Familiarity with HTML/CSS/JavaScript and their limitations

Responsibilities

  • Define core elements of the Starbucks Retail Design System
  • Serve as subject matter expert for design system
  • Facilitate adoption of the design system across teams
  • Collaborate with product delivery teams to enhance partner experience
  • Establish relationships across multiple teams and experiences

Benefits

  • Opportunity to impact every Starbucks store partner in North America
  • Collaboration with creative teams
  • Agile and dynamic work environment
  • Mentorship opportunities
  • Development of system documentation and best practices
Full Job Description
Job Summary and Mission

This critical role will be responsible for developing system in collaboration with our design team, as well as establishing the

framework for design system documentation. In addition, this role will serve as subject matter expert to designers, engineers

and product managers for all things related to the design system.

Summary of Key Responsibilities
• Define the core elements of the Starbucks Retail Design System, specifying UX, visual, interaction and motion

elements as well as documenting behaviors and usage guidelines.
• Cultivate internal knowledge around the design system by serving as a subject matter expert to contributing teams who

are building additions to the design system.
• Utilize collaborative leadership skills to facilitate the adoption of the design system and ensure the best outcome for

stakeholders.
• Work within a product delivery team to understand the experience we are building for our partners. The result of this

work will be used by every store partner in North America.
• Be comfortable thinking in terms of systems, connecting and making relationships across multiple teams and

experiences.

Summary of Experience
• 5+ years experience of UX design for digital products
• 3+ years experience designing products using a design system
• 1+ years experience overseeing the development or maintenance of a design system
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Self-starter able to work in an agile environment with other disciplines in quick design loops
• Experience mentoring other designers and giving actionable design feedback
• Experience leading cross-team efforts and collaborating with engineering, design and product management.
• Experience designing for iOS
• Familiarity with relevant front-end technologies (HTML/CSS/Javascript) and their affordances and limitations
• Solid communication skills, written and verbal
• Experience with design languages and human interface guidelines and are familiar with frameworks, components and

patterns -- ideally as both a designer and system creator.
• Used to dealing with ambiguity and love solving ambitious problems in an agile, iterative manner.
• Strong knowledge of interaction and visual design as well as familiarity with information architecture.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and have experience aligning teams and stakeholders by persuasion

and influence.

About Starbucks Corporation

Starbucks is an international chain of restaurants that retails handcrafted coffee, tea, and fresh food items. With 23,132 stores in 65 countries and territories, Starbucks locations serve hot and cold drinks, whole-bean coffee, microground instant coffee, espresso, caffe latte, full-leaf teas, evolution fresh juices, pastries, and snacks. Most stores also sell pre-packaged food items, hot and cold sandwiches, and items such as mugs and tumblers. The stores also offer a variety of beers, wines, and appetizers, and markets books, music, and film. Some of the company’s products are seasonal or specific to the locality of the store. Starbucks-brand coffee, ice cream, and bottled cold coffee drinks are also sold at grocery stores. Starbucks was founded by Orin Smith in October 1971 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Starbucks Corporation Careers

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Learn more about Starbucks Corporation
Size
383,000 employees
Market Cap
$113.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$664.8 million
Founded
1971
5 Year Trend
+7.6%
Revenue
$23.1 billion
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