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Yum! Brands · 21 hours ago

Senior Product Designer - Systems & Information Architecture

Plano, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$99K/yr - $115K/yr

6+ years exp

Yum! Brands is looking for a Senior Product Designer who excels in systems thinking and information architecture. This role involves defining complex workflows, creating scalable structures, and leading design efforts while collaborating closely with engineering and product management teams.

Food and BeverageHospitalityRestaurants

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Information ArchitectureSystems ThinkingInteraction DesignPrototypingDomain ModelingTaxonomy DesignUI DesignCross-Functional LeadershipMentorshipCommunication Skills

Required

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

Preferred

Experience in large-scale operational systems, admin tools, B2B platforms, or internal product ecosystems

Familiarity with design system contribution (defining components, patterns, logic, or usage guidelines)

Strong understanding of how backend systems, APIs, schemas, and configuration frameworks influence UX

Experience working within or improving a maturing design organization

Comfort designing for multi-market, multi-tenant, or highly variable configuration environments

Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders through clear communication and structured thinking

Benefits

Bonus eligibility

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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