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Yum! Brands

Global franchised fast-food restaurant operator

Senior Product Manager - Web

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$148.9k - $186.5k+ Eligible bonus
Senior, Expert
Louisville, KY, USA+2 moreMore locations: Plano, TX, USA | United States
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ProductProduct Management

About the job

Requirements
  • Six to ten or more years of product management experience, including ownership of customer-facing web experiences at meaningful scale.
  • Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams to deliver measurable outcomes such as conversion, acquisition, retention, or experience quality.
  • Strong product judgment across discovery, delivery, and go-to-market, with evidence of data-driven prioritization and clear trade-off decisions.
  • Ability to run discovery by translating insights into hypotheses, validating them with research or experiments, and building an outcome-oriented roadmap.
  • Deep comfort with analytics, including funnel analysis, instrumentation, experimentation, and post-launch measurement.
  • Ability to simplify and focus, consistently delivering high value with controlled complexity.
  • Ability to collaborate and communicate across marketing, operations, engineering, and leadership stakeholders.
  • Technical fluency sufficient to understand feasibility and trade-offs involving web performance, application programming interfaces, search engine optimization implications, and experimentation tooling.
Responsibilities
  • Define and own a clear web product vision and strategy aligned to company goals and guest needs.
  • Establish outcome-based objectives for the web experience, such as acquisition, conversion, speed, accessibility, and funnel completion, and ensure priorities reflect the highest customer and business value.
  • Translate strategy into an evidence-based roadmap that balances quick wins with foundational investments in performance, reliability, search engine optimization, and instrumentation.
  • Partner with engineering, design, analytics, and marketing to deliver search-engine-optimization-strong site enhancements, scalable experimentation frameworks, and optimized merchandising experiences.
  • Develop end-to-end feature plans detailing the hypothesis, testing and implementation timeline, and results to report to product and executive teams.
  • Partner with engineering and design to solve problems and deliver outcomes, not just ship features.
  • Drive shared accountability across the squad through clear goals, rapid learning, and high-integrity commitments.
  • Create space for teams to innovate while maintaining disciplined prioritization and measurable impact.
  • Drive continuous discovery using customer research, analytics, prototypes, and experiments to validate ideas before scaling solutions.
  • Identify and mitigate key risks involving value, usability, feasibility, and viability through iterative learning.
  • Engage regularly with customer insights and behavioral data to understand friction points and opportunities in the web funnel.
  • Define success metrics and measurement plans before development begins, and ensure analytics and event instrumentation are treated as top-priority requirements.
  • Forecast impact using benchmarks, prior results, and funnel analysis; measure post-launch outcomes and adapt priorities based on results.
  • Maintain a transparent view of performance, including conversion, drop-offs, latency, search engine optimization health, and experience quality signals.
  • Prioritize initiatives to maximize impact, sequencing work to deliver compounding value while limiting complexity and churn.
  • Simplify solutions to capture most of the value with minimal implementation effort without sacrificing quality or trust.
  • Own delivery end to end, from discovery and definition through build, quality assurance, release, adoption, and iteration.
  • Ensure releases meet high standards for performance, reliability, accessibility, and usability.
  • Collaborate with engineering on pragmatic technical trade-offs that improve speed to value while preserving platform integrity.
  • Partner with marketing, brand, operations, legal, and customer care to ensure experiences are compliant, consistent, and operationally viable.
  • Coordinate with platform and mobile product partners across identity, offers, loyalty, menu and pricing, and payments to ensure coherence across channels.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in quick-service restaurants, retail, e-commerce, or other high-volume consumer environments with real-world operational constraints.
  • Experience with search engine optimization, site performance optimization, accessibility, and conversion rate optimization at scale.
  • Familiarity with modern product management principles and operating models, including empowered teams and continuous discovery.

About the company

Yum! Brands operates a global portfolio of fast-food chains, including KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and The Habit Burger Grill, primarily through franchising in more than 155 countries with about 61,000 restaurants. Its revenue mainly comes from franchise and license fees as well as royalties, plus some company-owned locations. The company differentiates itself by leveraging a large, multi-brand network with a franchise-heavy model that supports rapid international expansion while keeping operating costs down. Its goal is to grow its global footprint, maximize value from its brands, and continuously optimize operations and menus across markets.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Louisville, Kentucky

Founded

1997

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What believers are saying

  • September 1, 2026 Pizza Hut sale removed a chronic underperformer and $2.7 billion distraction.
  • Ex-Pizza Hut Q2 2026 system sales rose 7% and core profit 8%.
  • Taco Bell recovered from July's cyclospora shock, with sales improving week by week.

What critics are saying

  • July 2026 Taco Bell cyclospora lawsuits already target Yum after two Michigan deaths.
  • Taco Bell's lettuce supply chain still faces FDA scrutiny and repeat outbreak risk.
  • A fresh food-safety crisis would hit royalties, invite class actions, and damage franchisee trust.

What makes Yum! Brands unique

  • KFC, Taco Bell, and Habit run a nearly pure-franchise, asset-light global system.
  • Taco Bell's digital sales exceeded 60% of mix after Pizza Hut's exit.
  • KFC opened 660 restaurants across 55 markets in Q2 2026.

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Benefits

  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Mental Health Support

Growth & Insights and Company News

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Fortune
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Taco Bell sales recover with $1 Mexican pizza deal after lettuce outbreak triggers 2% drop

Taco Bell's same-store sales dropped 2% in July-September following a cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded lettuce, down from a 7% increase in the previous quarter. Parent company Yum Brands reported sales bottomed out the weekend of 18-19 July but have since recovered halfway to year-ago levels. The chain removed shredded iceberg lettuce from US restaurants on 17 July after federal health officials connected it to the outbreak affecting customers in nine states. Taylor Farms recalled iceberg lettuce from central Mexico the following day. Yum Brands chief executive Chris Turner credited quick action, clear social media communication, and daily specials like $1 Mexican pizza for winning back diners. Company shares rose 6% on Thursday. Other chains including Chipotle and Chopt also reported lower traffic due to the outbreak.

CNBC
Jul 30th, 2026
Yum Brands posts mixed Q2 results as Taco Bell traffic plunges after cyclospora outbreak

Yum Brands reported mixed second-quarter results on Wednesday but provided no update on the cyclospora outbreak linked to Taco Bell restaurants. The company posted adjusted earnings per share of $1.62, beating expectations of $1.58, whilst revenue of $2.17 billion fell short of the $2.2 billion forecast. Net income rose to $853 million from $374 million year-over-year. Net revenue climbed 12% to $2.17 billion, driven by new restaurant openings. Global same-store sales increased 3% in the quarter. Taco Bell's same-store sales jumped 7%, whilst KFC reported 2% growth and Pizza Hut declined 1%. The results cover the period ended 30 June, before the FDA linked the outbreak to Taco Bell in mid-July.

Yahoo Finance
Jun 11th, 2026
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