Jobs at Dairy Queen

Provides consulting, coaching, and operational guidance to Dairy Queen franchisees across a district. Develops business plans, improves sales, profitability, food safety, service, quality, cleanliness, and maintenance standards, and supports marketing, training, development, and supply chain initiatives. Builds relationships with franchise leadership, assists with store openings and reinvestment strategies, ensures policy compliance, and travels extensively for franchisee visits and meetings.

Advise and coach Dairy Queen franchisees and operations teams to improve sales, profitability, restaurant standards, customer experience, and compliance. Develop district and franchisee business plans spanning marketing, operations, training, development, and supply chain. Provide guidance on restaurant operations, financial health, marketing performance, renewals, new store openings, and franchisee relationships. Travel frequently for franchisee visits and meetings.

Advise and coach Dairy Queen franchisees and operations teams across a district. Develop business plans, improve sales and profitability, strengthen restaurant standards, support marketing and financial performance, ensure policy compliance, and assist with store openings and franchise development. The role requires extensive travel to franchisee locations, meetings, and staff visits, including overnight and air travel.

Leads food safety, quality, and regulatory programs for DQ products, including vendor qualification, product evaluations, plant inspections, specification management, HACCP procedures, shelf-life extensions, and issue resolution. Analyzes quality data, develops corrective actions, manages recalls and other food safety incidents, supports product development, and drives continuous improvement. Builds relationships with vendors, franchisees, regulators, and internal teams while providing technical guidance and strategic recommendations.

Leads enterprise-wide corporate communications, including public relations, employee and franchisee communications, fan relations, crisis management, executive counsel, media relations, and reputation management. Oversees communications managers, agencies, vendors, messaging strategies, crisis responses, and stakeholder engagement. Develops communication plans aligned with business priorities and manages communications for high-impact issues, special events, and franchisee initiatives.

Lead regional operations for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, driving franchisee support, operational excellence, kitchen automation and AI-enabled systems adoption, organizational optimization, compliance, and cross-functional alignment to improve productivity, unit economics and growth.

Oversee international franchise operations support programs, tools, vendors, and continuous-improvement initiatives. Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, manage vendor performance and business reviews, align global operations, and support pilots and launches. Develop dashboards, scorecards, reports, and executive summaries while analyzing operational, financial, customer, and program data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities. Provide actionable recommendations to leadership and influence franchisees, field teams, vendors, and internal partners in a matrixed environment.

Lead APAC marketing strategy for Dairy Queen, advising franchisees and agencies, driving brand, digital/social, LSM and product innovation, approving creative, guiding research, and managing regional marketing plans, budgets, and stakeholder relationships.

Lead Dairy Queen’s digital commerce, loyalty, and gift card strategy across the U.S. and Canada. Own P&L and roadmap to grow digital sales, optimize mobile/web and third‑party channels, scale loyalty/CRM and personalization, drive experimentation and analytics, and partner with cross‑functional teams and franchisees to deliver revenue, margin, and operational results. Manage a 9–11 person team.

Lead digital commerce, loyalty, and gift card strategy across the U.S. and Canada to drive digital revenue growth, customer lifetime value, and franchisee profitability. Own mobile, web, third‑party marketplaces, CRM, personalization, and gift card platforms; set KPIs, partner cross‑functionally, run experimentation, and build a high‑performing team to scale to $1B+ in digital sales by 2030.

Lead International Dairy Queen's international market entry and expansion. Source and diligence franchise partners, negotiate development agreements, build market strategies and pipelines, manage site selection and first-store project execution, assess franchisee finance and transactions, and coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure disciplined growth and compliance.