Senior Product Designer II - Inventory Designer

Role Overview

We are hiring a Senior Product Designer II (L9) to serve as the IC Design Lead for Inventory. This designer will own the end-to-end user experience for Inventory, from problem framing through detailed execution, working in close partnership with Product Management and Engineering.

This role is ideal for a senior designer with strong systems-level thinking who thrives in complex, operational domains. You will design experiences used in fast-paced, high-stakes environments, where clarity, speed, and reliability directly impact restaurant performance. This is a hands-on senior IC role reporting to the Design Manager for Smart Operations.

About Byte by Yum!

Byte by Yum! is the technology platform powering digital and operational experiences across Yum! Brands’ global portfolio. Our Smart Operations products support restaurant teams with tools that improve efficiency, reduce costs, and simplify complex workflows—so operators can focus on delivering great guest experiences.

Responsibilities

Experience Strategy & Problem Framing

• Support and lead UX for the Inventory product area, aligning design direction with product goals, operational realities, and user needs.
• Frame complex inventory challenges into clear, actionable design opportunities across workflows such as counting, ordering, waste, transfers, prep, and reporting.
• Translate business and operational goals into coherent experience direction without over-indexing on feature-level design.

Design Execution & Systems Thinking

• Design end-to-end, production-ready experiences across mobile and web for operational users (e.g., restaurant managers, shift leads, team members).
• Create clear user flows, interaction patterns, and detailed UI designs that balance usability, speed, accuracy, and real-world constraints.
• Ensure designs support scalability, accessibility, and consistency while remaining pragmatic for engineering delivery.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Act as the primary design partner for Inventory Product and Engineering leads.
• Facilitate design critiques, working sessions, and reviews to align across disciplines.
• Communicate tradeoffs clearly, balancing usability, technical feasibility, and delivery constraints.
• Advocate for user-centered solutions while navigating tradeoffs between operational needs, technical constraints, and business priorities.

Quality, Accessibility, & Reliability

• Design for operational environments where speed, legibility, and error recovery are critical.
• Incorporate accessibility and usability best practices appropriate for shared, on-premise systems.
• Anticipate failure modes and “unhappy paths,” ensuring the system remains usable under stress or degraded conditions.

Requirements

Experience & Skills

• 5+ years of experience in product design, UX design, or interaction design.
• Proven ability to lead UX strategy and execution for a feature set or product area within a cross-functional team.
• Strong interaction, systems, and workflow design skills—especially for data-heavy, operational, or task-driven products.
• Experience designing for mobile-first or mobile-heavy environments.

Craft & Execution

• High bar for interaction design, information hierarchy, and usability.
• Comfortable designing detailed flows, states, and edge cases for real-world use.
• Strong proficiency with modern design tools (e.g., Figma) and design documentation practices.

Collaboration & Communication

• Demonstrated ability to partner deeply with Product and Engineering.
• Clear communicator who can explain design rationale and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable operating with autonomy and limited supervision wit