Senior Manager, Data Science & AI Engineering
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
💰 $165,700 - $226,800 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead and mentor a team of Data Scientists and AI Engineers across multiple domains and products.
- Provide technical and career development guidance; foster a collaborative, high-trust culture.
- Drive standards for experimentation, evaluation, reproducibility, and model performance.
- Shape end-to-end ML and AI strategy across core DS use cases (forecasting, pricing, recommendation) and emerging LLM/VLM applications.
- Guide architectural choices around model selection, evaluation design, and deployment workflows.
- Provide oversight on LLM fine-tuning, prompt design, ASR/embedding adaptation, and production readiness.
- Act as a key interface between technical contributors and business/product stakeholders.
- Distill analytical output and AI system behavior into clear presentations, dashboards, or executive summaries.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, TPM, and Ops to align team output with company priorities.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, or AI Engineering.
- Experience leading and coaching high-performing technical teams.
- Hands-on expertise in both traditional ML (regression, classification, forecasting) and modern AI techniques (LLMs, RAG, embeddings, multimodal models).
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior leadership and simplify complex topics.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building or scaling hybrid DS+AI teams in enterprise environments.
- Familiarity with LangChain, HuggingFace, OpenAI, Pinecone, or vector-based ML architectures.
- Exposure to business domains such as QSR, retail, personalization, or intelligent automation.
Benefits
- 4 weeks’ vacation PLUS holidays
- Sick leave
- 2 paid days to volunteer at the cause of their choice
- Dollar-for-dollar matching gift program
- Generous parental leave
- Competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- 6% 401k match
- Recognition culture
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Data ScienceMachine LearningAI Engineeringtraditional MLregressionclassificationforecastingLLMsRAGembeddings
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationinfluencingsimplifying complex topics