Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

Senior Systems Design Specialist

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

💰 $109,400 - $128,600 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Own the vision, roadmap, and day‑to‑day stewardship of the Pizza Hut design system in collaboration with Pizza Hut design and product leadership, and BYTE teams.
  • Ensure system foundations, components, and patterns are high quality, scalable, and well documented.
  • Advocate for consistency and reuse across digital products while supporting evolving product needs.
  • Measure and improve system adoption, usability, and effectiveness.
  • Treat the design system as a product, with clear goals, priorities, and outcomes.
  • Partner with leadership, product managers and BYTE to align system investments with business and product roadmaps.
  • Balance short‑term delivery needs with long‑term system health.
  • Define standards and best practices that support speed and quality across teams.
  • Work closely with engineering partners and BYTE to design and deliver production‑ready components.
  • Collaborate on component APIs, implementation patterns, and release processes.
  • Support development teams by clarifying usage, resolving implementation questions, and identifying system gaps.
  • Champion accessibility, performance, and quality throughout design and implementation.
  • In collaboration with Pizza Hut design leadership and BYTE partners, help shape and maintain contribution models, review processes, and decision‑making frameworks for the system.
  • Educate and enable designers and developers on how to effectively use and contribute to the system.
  • Promote system thinking and shared ownership across design, product, and engineering.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of workflows, tooling, and documentation.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in UX design, design systems, or platform‑focused product design.
  • Demonstrated experience owning or significantly contributing to a design system at scale.
  • Strong understanding of component‑based design, design tokens, and modern front‑end architectures.
  • Experience collaborating deeply with engineering teams to deliver reusable, production‑ready solutions.
  • Product mindset with the ability to prioritize work and make informed tradeoffs.
  • Deep knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design practices.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to influence without authority.
  • Proficiency with design tools such as Figma; familiarity with design system documentation tools is a plus.
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