- Lead a team of designers and architects to create innovative and functional restaurant designs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design concepts align with brand strategy and customer expectations.
- Oversee the development of design guidelines and standards, ensuring consistency across all restaurant units.
- Conduct market research and stay updated on industry trends to inform design decisions.
- Manage the design process from concept to completion, including site selection, space planning, and construction.
- Ensure compliance with local regulations and building codes during the design and construction phases.
- Work closely with the marketing team to develop visually appealing and brand-aligned restaurant interiors.
- Mentor and develop junior designers, providing guidance and support to enhance their skills.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with external partners, including architects and contractors.
- Stay updated on emerging technologies and materials to incorporate sustainable and innovative design solutions.
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Architecture, or a related field.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in restaurant or retail design, with a proven track record of success.
- Strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a team.
- Excellent knowledge of design principles, trends, and best practices in the restaurant industry.
- Proficiency in design software and tools, such as AutoCAD, SketchUp, and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and external partners.
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with a creative approach to design challenges.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.
- A keen eye for detail and a passion for creating exceptional customer experiences.
- Flexibility to travel as required for site visits and project management.
Who is KFC?
KFC, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM.), is a global chicken restaurant brand with a rich, decades-long history of success and innovation. It all started with one cook, Colonel Harland Sanders, who believed in doing things “the hard way,” because nothing ever got done right by cutting corners. Hard work, hospitality and integrity are still core to our brand today.
While we’re grounded in our heritage, we’re always looking forward to the future and evolving to make it easier for our customers to enjoy our chicken. Through digital innovation, our goal is to make KFC available everywhere, implementing a frictionless & friendly experience leveraging scalable technology stack and standards and accelerating rollouts via multiple channels. And we’re growing… a new KFC restaurant opens somewhere in the world every six hours.
As we grow, KFC is committed to doing so responsibly through commitments like our 2025 global plastic packaging goal and the KFC Harvest program, which to date has donated over 82 million pounds of food to our local communities around the world. Our purposes is feeding people’s potential, whether that means helping team members get through school, turn their passion for fried chicken into a career, or being a positive force in our communities. We fight inequality and believe in all people. Everyone has a seat at our table: from millionaires to truck drivers, to our more than 800,000 Team Members, to our customers around the world, KFC treats everyone like family.
Our people are what make us distinctively KFC, and we value every opportunity to celebrate the unique perspectives and backgrounds they bring to our company. To learn more about KFC Global, check out our company page here.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Architecture, or a related field.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in restaurant or retail design.
- Strong leadership and management skills.
- Excellent knowledge of design principles, trends, and best practices in the restaurant industry.
- Proficiency in design software and tools, such as AutoCAD, SketchUp, and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and external partners.
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with a creative approach to design challenges.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.
- A keen eye for detail and a passion for creating exceptional customer experiences.
- Flexibility to travel as required for site visits and project management.
Yum! Brands Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Yum! Brands and has not been reviewed or approved by Yum! Brands.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Corporate roles include four weeks of vacation, year‑round half‑day Fridays, company holidays, dedicated “Live Well” days, and paid volunteer days. These policies contribute meaningfully to overall compensation value for corporate employees.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Offerings include free access to mental‑health counselors, onsite/virtual wellness tools, onsite gyms in select offices, and wellbeing discounts. Smoking‑cessation and weight‑management programs further bolster lifestyle support.
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Parental & Family Support — Benefits span family‑planning coverage such as adoption, fertility, and baby‑bonding leave. Corporate materials also note enhanced parental leave for U.S. corporate employees.
Yum! Brands Insights
What We Do
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, and its subsidiaries franchise or operate a system of over 55,000 restaurants in more than 155 countries and territories under the Company’s concepts – KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and the Habit Burger Grill. The Company's KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands are global leaders of the chicken, Mexican-style food, and pizza categories, respectively. The Habit Burger Grill is a fast casual restaurant concept specializing in made-to-order chargrilled burgers, sandwiches and more. What makes Yum! a great place to work? It's our people. As the world's largest restaurant company, we invest in people capability so that our global workforce can make the most of their careers. With ongoing opportunities for personal and professional success, we've built a culture that rewards and recognizes great effort while providing the flexibility that is so important to all of us.
