Director, Portfolio Management Office (PMO)

Who is Taco Bell?  

Taco Bell was born and raised in California and has been around since 1962. We went from selling everyone’s favorite Crunchy Tacos on the West Coast to a global brand with 8,500+ restaurants, 350 franchise organizations, that serve 42+ million fans each week around the globe. We’re not only the largest Mexican-inspired quick service brand (QSR) in the world, we’re also part of the biggest restaurant group in the world: Yum! Brands.  

Much of our fan love and authentic connection with our communities are rooted in being rebels with a cause. From ensuring we use high quality, sustainable ingredients to elevating restaurant technology in ways that hasn’t been done before… we will continue to be inclusive, bold, challenge the status quo and push industry boundaries.    

We’re a company that celebrates and advocates for different, has bold self-expression, strives for a better future, and brings the fun while we’re at it. We fuel our culture with real people who bring unique experiences. We inspire and enable our teams and the world to Live Más. 

At Taco Bell, we’re Cultural Rebels. Want to join in on the passion-fueled fun? Learn more about the career below. 

About the Job: 

This is a highly visible executive leadership role with direct influence across Taco Bell, Yum! Digital & Technology, Finance, Operations, and Franchise stakeholders.

The Director, PMO will architect and institutionalize Taco Bell’s Digital & Technology enterprise alignment model — shaping how D&T operates as an integrated system across Product, Engineering, Platforms, Data, and Operations.

Reporting to the Global Chief Digital & Technology Officer, this leader is responsible for designing and scaling the governance, integration, capacity transparency, and decision-rights clarity mechanisms that enable D&T to execute strategy cohesively at enterprise scale.

This role does not own capital allocation or product execution. Instead, it ensures that leadership decisions are informed, trade-offs are transparent, and the enterprise delivery system operates with clarity and accountability.

This is a senior enterprise operating model leadership role with significant executive influence across Taco Bell and Yum! stakeholders.

The Day-to-Day: 

• Design and institutionalize Taco Bell D&T’s enterprise prioritization and roadmap integration framework

• Provide enterprise-level scenario modeling, sequencing visibility, and capacity transparency to inform executive trade-offs

• Architect cross-functional orchestration mechanisms, including dependency governance, risk escalation, and control tower forums

• Establish enterprise reporting standards, delivery health transparency, and observability expectations across squads and platforms

• Partner with Finance to ensure value visibility and outcome transparency (Finance retains ownership of economic validation and ROI modeling)

• Codify decision-rights clarity across CX, TMX, Platform, and Infrastructure domains

• Lead and develop a high-performing PMO team focused on enterprise integration and transparency

• Serve as a trusted thought partner to the CD&TO and DTLT on operating model design and continuous improvement

Is This You?

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise PMO leadership, strategy & operations, or large-scale technology program leadership

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience; MBA or advanced degree a plus

• Proven track record of designing and scaling enterprise governance, delivery integration models, and capacity transparency systems in complex, matrixed environments

• Demonstrated ability to influence and align strategic prioritization with operational execution realities across product and engineering organizations

• Experience building or scaling Agile governance frameworks or Centers of Excellence at enterprise level

• Influences and shapes enterprise governance architecture and organizational design & integration

• Strong financial acumen, including investment planning, capacity modeling, and business case evaluation

• Experience leading and developing high-perform