Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

Senior Product Designer – Systems, Information Architecture

Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Plano • Texas • United States

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Salary

💰 $99,200 - $115,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Define information architecture, conceptual models, taxonomy, and domain logic for configuration-heavy or multi-role systems.
  • Establish system clarity by mapping objects, relationships, behaviors, constraints, and states.
  • Create scalable, coherent structures that other designers and engineers can confidently build upon.
  • Lead the scoping of design work, breaking large ambiguous problem spaces into actionable, sequenced design efforts.
  • Prioritize design focus areas to maximize velocity and unblock engineering.
  • Communicate design progress, risks, and decisions to PM and engineering partners, reducing ambiguity across teams.
  • Push back when proposed technical approaches degrade experience quality or violate established models.
  • Facilitate design–engineering tradeoff discussions grounded in system logic and user impact.
  • Ensure engineering understands interaction rules, behaviors, states, edge cases, and object relationships before implementation.
  • Provide structure, guidance, and critique to the Workflow/Interaction Designer working within your system models.
  • Help convert system logic into flows, prototypes, and task-level interactions.
  • Ensure alignment between IA decisions and downstream interaction patterns.
  • Produce high-quality IA maps, conceptual diagrams, domain models, and architectural documentation.
  • Create task flows, wireframes, and mid-fidelity prototypes when needed to illustrate behaviors, transitions, and interactions.
  • Use usability principles to simplify complex conceptual spaces and improve the operator experience.
  • Facilitate collaborative working sessions with engineering, PM, data, and operations partners.
  • Establish shared mental models and structural clarity across functions.
  • Drive decisions in ambiguous areas through clear reasoning, diagrams, and conceptual framing.
  • Mentor other designers in IA, systems thinking, workflow modeling, and structured problem-solving.
  • Contribute to the evolution of design practices, tools, and rituals across the design org.
  • Support the development of reusable patterns and frameworks that contribute to a cohesive design system.

Requirements

  • 6–8+ years of experience in product design, including work on enterprise, internal tools, or configuration-heavy systems.
  • Demonstrated mastery of IA, systems thinking, domain modeling, and conceptual mapping.
  • Strong interaction design skills with experience in task flows, wireframes, and mid-fidelity prototypes.
  • Experience scoping complex design work and leading design progress independently.
  • Proven ability to partner directly with engineering leadership on feasibility, system behavior, and implementation clarity.
  • Experience guiding or mentoring other designers.
  • Portfolio that includes system architecture + IA artifacts, not just UI screens.
  • Experience in large-scale operational systems, admin tools, B2B platforms, or internal product ecosystems. (preferred)
  • Familiarity with design system contribution (defining components, patterns, logic, or usage guidelines). (preferred)
  • Strong understanding of how backend systems, APIs, schemas, and configuration frameworks influence UX. (preferred)
  • Experience working within or improving a maturing design organization. (preferred)
  • Comfort designing for multi-market, multi-tenant, or highly variable configuration environments. (preferred)
  • Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders through clear communication and structured thinking. (preferred)

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
information architectureconceptual modelstaxonomydomain logicinteraction designtask flowswireframesmid-fidelity prototypessystems thinkingdomain modeling
Soft skills
communicationmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingleadershipinfluenceclarityguidancecritiquefacilitation