Jr. Ux Designer Jobs

Yum!'s vision for the future is simple: a world with more Yum!: with our iconic brands in more places and more ways for consumers to access them. The key and not-so-secret ingredient in our recipe for growth is our unrivaled talent and culture, which fuels our results. And like all companies who win consistently, our brands, employees, and franchisees will need to continually adjust to stay relevant now and in the future. The software we’re building does just that: it serves people in new ways to make team members more productive and customers happier.
About The Role
We look for solutions for some of the most challenging problems in the restaurant industry. Our fast-paced growth for scalability forces us to design, test and iterate for rapid results. If you are looking to learn more about UX than what you are in the classroom, where every project is a learning opportunity, then look no further you have found what you are looking for. As an intern, you'll own a project from start to finish and with a dedicated mentor, and manager working alongside to set you up for success. You'll learn the importance of a Triad and when they work together how fast and well a product can be built.
You Have

• Interest in design tools and methods through education
• A hyper focus attention to detail
• A drive to dig into the why behind user behavior
• Desire to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Highly developed emotional intelligence, curiosity, and creativity
• Excellent visual and verbal communication skills
• A passion to investigate user problems and present reasonable solutions for them

You Will

• Perform design audits to ensure integrity and accessibility standards
• Collaborate with your Triad (you, engineering and PO) to understand technical limitations
• Create discussion guides and test scripts to conduct research
• Perform 1:1 usability testing and identify friction points from our users
• Document UX artifacts around the work you’ll be communicating to stakeholders
• Contribute to product design and implementation discussions
• Document UI enhancements and supply engineering-ready design files for build
• Find, design wireframes, user-flows and present solutions to user problems

The Yum! Brands story is simple. We have the three distinctive, relevant and easy global brands – KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell -- born from the hopes and dreams, ambitions and grit of passionate entrepreneurs. And we want more of this to create our future!
As the world’s largest restaurant company we have a clear and compelling mission: to build the world’s most love, trusted and fastest-growing restaurant brands. The key and not-so-secret ingredient in our recipe for growth is our unrivaled talent and culture, which fuels our results.
We’re looking for talented, motivated, visionary and team-oriented leaders to join us as we elevate and personalize the customer experience across our 48,000 restaurants, operating in 145 countries and territories around the world!
We put pizza, chicken and tacos in the hands of customers through customized ordering, unique delivery approaches, app experiences, and click and collect services and consumer data analytics creating unique customer dining experiences – and we are only getting started.
Employees may work for a single brand and potentially grow to support all company-owned brands depending on their role. Regardless of where they work, as a company opening an average of 8 restaurants a day worldwide, the growth opportunities are endless. Taco Bell has been named of the 10 Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast Company; Pizza Hut delivers more pizzas than any other pizza company in the world and KFC’s still use its 75-year-old finger lickin’ good recipe including secret herbs and spices to hand-bread its chicken every day.
Yum! and its brands have offices in Chicago, IL, Louisville KY, Irvine, CA, Plano, TX and other markets around the world. We don’t just say we are a great place to work – our commitments to the world and our employees show it. Yum! has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and ranked among the top 100 Best Corporate Citizens by Corporate Responsibility Magazine in addition to being named to the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index. Our employees work in an environment where the value of “believe in all people” is lived every day, enjoying benefits including but not limited to: 4 weeks’ vacation PLUS holidays, sick leave and 2 paid days to volunteer at the cause of their choice and a dollar-for-dollar matching gift program; generous parental leave; competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as a 6% 401k match – all encompassed in Yum!’s world-famous recognition culture.