Starbucks
LayoffWARN notice filed with the Washington State Employment Security Department
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Affected Positions
Starbucks announced its largest corporate restructuring of 2025: 612 Support Center and remote employees separated in phases from May 2025 through February 2026, cutting deeply into store technology, systems analysis, engineering, and finance up to VP level.
These positions account for 52 of the 612 workers reported to ESD. The filing does not give a position breakdown for the remainder, so this table is a partial view rather than the full layoff.
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| Position | Category | Seniority | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Systems Analysts - ST (I/II/Sr/Lead) | Engineering | Individual contributor | 32 |
| Finance (Dirs of Finance, Mgr Finance incl. NACP, Sr Dir Planning & Business Operations, Dir Planning, Dir Business Transformation) | Finance | Director | 8 |
| Technical Product Managers (incl. Sr, Principal) / Product Manager Principal | Product | Individual contributor | 6 |
| Customer & partner experience (Sr Manager, Coffee Education & Experiences Consultant, License Advisor Sr) | Customer Support | Individual contributor | 3 |
| VPs (Marketing, Store Development, Strategy & Innovation - ST) | Other | Executive | 3 |
| Engineers (Sr - ST, Systems Engineers incl. Sr/Lead, Database Engineer Sr, Application Developer, Sr Data Engineer) | Engineering | Individual contributor | — |
| Program & Project Managers - ST (incl. Sr, Mgr Program Management) | Product | Individual contributor | — |
| SDET (incl. Sr, Lead) | Engineering | Individual contributor | — |
| Scrum Masters (incl. Sr) | Product | Individual contributor | — |
| Technology managers (Mgr Application Development, Mgr Engineer - ST, Mgr Software QA, Mgr Technology Product & Solutions) | Engineering | Manager | — |
Positions extracted from the official notice document using AI; verify with the official ESD source record by employer and filing date.
More Notices from Starbucks
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| Filed | County | Workers | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 20, 2026 | King | 224 | Layoff |
| May 15, 2026 | King | 252 | Layoff |
| May 8, 2026 | King | 61 | Layoff |
| March 27, 2026 | King | 69 | Closure |
| October 9, 2025 | King | 974 | Layoff |
| October 3, 2025 | Not reported | 338 | Closure |
| May 5, 2025 | King | 8 | Layoff |
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About WARN Notices
Washington law generally requires covered employers to provide 60 days' written notice for qualifying closures, mass layoffs, and certain reductions in hours. Thresholds and exceptions apply. Data on this page comes from Washington ESD's public WARN records. Search ESD's public WARN database.