Sr. Technical Product Manager II

The Role:

The world’s largest restaurant company is seeking a talented and driven Technical Product Manager to lead the ongoing evolution of Byte Commerce’s Payment Capabilities. As a Product Manager at Byte by Yum!, you will be responsible for the strategic and tactical execution of technical solutions tailored for KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and The Habit Burger Grill.

The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in planning, prioritizing, and delivering complex technical software solutions in concert with engineering and design counterparts. Experience in managing a diverse set of stakeholders and sometimes-competing production-critical needs is key. To be successful, Product Managers at Yum! must be willing to dive in and become experts on the products we’re building including how we architect and create them.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy & Planning:

· Support and execute the payments strategy and roadmap to encompass both engineering and product requirements, ensuring alignment with company, brand, and technical goals.

· Serve as the primary contact for the Yum Commerce Payments capabilities, steering both product development and technical architecture.

· Evaluate and prioritize enhancement and intake requests from integrated applications, brands, and stakeholders across the globe.

· Lead and communicate quarterly product and capacity planning process.

· Work with the discovery teams to plan for new market launches and set expectations on timelines, delivery and roadmap. · Become a trusted partner to the global brands we support.

Delivery & Execution:

· Partner with stakeholders and other product teams to gather top-level scope and requirements.

· Lead the development team in understanding, refining, and executing on a roadmap.

· Be an invaluable, trusted partner to the brands we support, as well as engineering and design peers.

· Capture, track, and provide status on top risks, actions, issues, and dependencies.

· Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.

· Identify key decision points for escalation and maintain decision logs.

· Proactively provide regular updates to stakeholders and the Yum! Leadership Team.

Qualifications:

· Minimum of 5+ years of Technical Product Management or equivalent product experience.

· Highly organized, detail-oriented, strategic leader with ability to track and manage multiple priorities.

· Experience with Jira & Confluence.

· Ability to read and author system diagrams and technical documents.

· Experience working in technical teams and understanding complex systems and products.

· Exceptional prioritization skills and influencing skills; You know how to organize execution and sell the prioritization decisions.

· Strong written and verbal communication skills.

· Deep experience in stakeholder management, managing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization across a global organization.

· Demonstrated problem-solving and negotiation skills.

· Big picture strategic thinker with ability to translate plans into an executable roadmap with key stakeholders Ability to work independently and collaborate with others effectively

Technical Qualifications:

Familiarity with agile development methodologies

Familiar with SQL - execute queries against a database to extract or update data.

Familiarity with REST API’s – how to execute a REST API request and read the response.

Experience owning/managing a product consisting of at least a backend API

Experience writing API documentation

Pluses:

Familiarity with GraphQL

Experience with microservice architectures

Basic understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Experience with monitoring and observability tools

Understanding of CI/CD pipelines

Salary Range: $127,900-$160,200 annually + bonus eligibility. This is the expected salary range for this position. Ultimately, in determining pay, we'll consider the successful candidate’s location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Benefits: Employees (and their eligible family members) may enroll in the following types of insurance coverage: medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment, as well as FSA/HSA (depending on enrolled medical plan). Yum! also provides short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance. Employees may enroll in our 401(k) plan. Yum! provides 4 weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, a floating day off and 2 paid days for volunteer time each calendar year. To learn more about working at Yum! -Click here. 

At Yum!, one of our core values is to Believe in ALL People. This means seeing the value in everyone and unlocking their full potential to be their best self. YUM! Brands, Inc. (including its subsidiaries Yum Restaurant Services Group, LLC (“YRSG”) and Yum Connect, LLC (“Yum Digital and Technology”)(collectively, “Yum”) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equity, inclusion, and belonging for all dimensions of diversity.  We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other protected characteristic. Yum! is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities or special needs.

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This posting will be open for a minimum of two weeks. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until a candidate is selected.

Beware of fake job postings using Yum! and/or our brand logos -- KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Habit Burger & Grill -- on fraudulent sites. Yum! Brands only posts jobs on official career pages and never asks for money during onboarding. Avoid unsolicited contacts via Telegram, WhatsApp or similar social apps.

Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, and its subsidiaries franchise or operate a system of over 55,000 restaurants in more than 155 countries and territories under the company’s concepts – KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and the Habit Burger Grill. The Company's KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands are global leaders of the chicken, Mexican-style food, and pizza categories, respectively. The Habit Burger Grill is a fast casual restaurant concept specializing in made-to-order chargrilled burgers, sandwiches and more. In 2023, the KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands were ranked in the top five of Entrepreneur’s Top Global Franchises Ranking. In addition, in 2023 Yum! Brands was included on the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index; Forbes’ list of America’s Best Employers for Diversity; and Newsweek’s lists recognizing America’s Most Responsible Companies, America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity and America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women. In 2022, the Company was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America.

As the world's largest restaurant company, we have a clear and compelling mission: to build the world's most loved, trusted, and fastest-growing restaurant brands. The key and not-so-secret ingredient in our recipe for growth is our unrivaled culture and talent, which fuels our results. To that end, we're looking for talented, motivated, team-oriented individuals to join us and have the opportunity be your best, have fun, make friends, and make a positive impact.

We are excited about the future growth of our brands. In fact, as a company we are opening an average of 8 restaurants a day worldwide! This growth creates endless opportunities for professional, as well as personal growth.  Customer sentiment and love for our brands is the fuel for our excitement!  Taco Bell has been named one of the 10 Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast Company. Pizza Hut delivers more pizzas than any other pizza company in the world, KFC's still uses its 75-year-old finger-lickin' good recipe, including secret herbs and spices to hand-bread its chicken every day, and the Habit Burger Grill is looking to expand its regional footprint across the country.