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Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

Senior System Designer

Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

Sr. System Designer II for Yum!

Posted 4/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $125,000 - $145,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Drive the design and refinement of Helium components supporting core commerce flows (browse, customize, cart, checkout, loyalty)
  • Support brands as they onboard to the Helium Design System (adapt/adopt model)
  • Translate product and business needs into scalable, reusable system components and patterns
  • Contribute to the evolution of design tokens (color, typography, spacing, states) ensuring consistency across platforms
  • Apply and extend existing system architecture and patterns, identifying opportunities for improvement
  • Design components that support complex transactional behaviors, including: Pricing and promotions, Modifiers and customization, Availability and edge cases, Error and state handling
  • Ensure components are modular, composable, and adaptable across web, mobile, and kiosk environments
  • Partner with Engineering to ensure production-ready, implementation-aligned designs
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Research to align system solutions with roadmap priorities
  • Partner closely with Staff Systems Designer to support Helium, evolve the platform and onboard new brands
  • Collaborate with Design Systems team: Sr. Manager, Sr. Systems Designer and Director, Digital & Design Systems
  • Participate in and help facilitate design critiques, working sessions, and planning
  • Support product teams in adopting and applying Helium effectively
  • Identify and help reduce pattern fragmentation and redundancy across commerce experiences
  • Contribute to documentation, usage guidelines, and system standards
  • Ensure designs meet accessibility and usability standards across platforms
  • Support multiple brands in applying the system through tokens, theming, and component variants
  • Support multiple brands in onboarding and setup of the ‘brand expression layer’
  • Balance consistency with brand expression within defined system frameworks
  • Partner with teams to ensure alignment with Helium DS
  • Leverage AI tools (e.g., Figma MCP, Claude, etc.) to improve design efficiency, iteration speed, and documentation
  • Contribute to emerging practices for AI-assisted system workflows
  • Contributes to experience strategy for commerce-focused system areas
  • Aligns component and interaction decisions with customer needs and business goals
  • Helps evolve system direction through hands-on design and informed recommendations
  • Owns and delivers high-quality system components and patterns across multiple workstreams
  • Applies and extends existing frameworks, occasionally introducing new patterns where needed
  • Ensures solutions are scalable, reusable, and production-ready
  • Partners deeply with PM, Engineering, and Research
  • Actively participates in critiques, workshops, and cross-team alignment
  • Works within a shared system model, contributing to collective outcomes
  • Independently solves complex design challenges within commerce workflows
  • Uses judgment to identify gaps and propose practical, scalable solutions
  • Balances system integrity with product needs and delivery timelines

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 9+ years of experience in system design, product design, UX architecture, or related fields.
  • Demonstrated expertise building or evolving enterprise-scale design systems.
  • Deep knowledge of component architecture, interaction modeling, and scalable UX frameworks.
  • Experience defining and managing design token systems.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing system-level thinking and platform architecture.
  • Proven experience partnering closely with Engineering on system implementation.
  • Experience supporting multiple brands or product teams within a shared infrastructure.
  • Strong communication skills with executive-level clarity and influence.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • bonus eligibility
  • benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools
system designproduct designUX architecturecomponent architectureinteraction modelingscalable UX frameworksdesign token systemsdesign critiquesmodular designaccessibility standards
Soft Skills
communication skillscollaborationproblem-solvinginfluencesystem-level thinkingadaptabilitycreativitycritical thinkingteam alignmentstakeholder engagement