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Yum! Brands · 2 days ago

Sr Manager, Data Science & AI Engineering

Plano, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$166K/yr - $227K/yr

8+ years exp

Yum! Brands is the world's largest restaurant company, and they are seeking a Senior Manager, Data Science & AI Engineering to lead their hybrid team of Data Scientists and AI Engineers. This role involves overseeing workstreams in forecasting, personalization, and intelligent agent development, while also shaping the ML and AI strategy across core use cases and emerging applications.

Food and BeverageHospitalityRestaurants

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Data ScienceMachine LearningAI EngineeringLLM expertiseTechnical StrategyTeam LeadershipCommunication SkillsCoachingInfluencing LeadershipSimplifying Complex TopicsHybrid Team BuildingBusiness Domain ExposureLangChainHuggingFaceOpenAIPineconeVector-based ML ArchitecturesCollaboration

Required

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

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

A dollar-for-dollar matching gift program

Generous parental leave

Competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision and life insurance

6% 401k match

All encompassed in Yum!’s world-famous recognition culture

Company

Yum! Brands

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Yum! Brands is a quick-service restaurant brand that primarily operates the likes of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell.

Founded in 1997

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.yum.com

H1B Sponsorship

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