Product Owner

We are looking for a passionate, dynamic, pizza-loving Product Owner to lead Pizza Hut’s Restaurant Experience back of house transformation. As a Sr. Product Owner at Pizza Hut, you are the ultimate owner of the team member experience – partnering closely with design, engineering, and data science teams to bring human-centered digital experiences to life.

In this role you will investigate and discover ways to improve team member experience in store through a digital transformation of our back-of-house technologies. You will coordinate with internal and external stakeholders and vendor partners to improve restaurant operations with an eye towards improving user experiences. You’ll also help drive forward complex, large-scale technical transformation projects as Pizza Hut modernizes its tech stack and prepares for the future.

We are looking for someone who is proficient with priority scheduling and making technical decisions. Your primary focus will be owning a technical product or platform. You will manage the day-to-day tasks for the development team and coordinate projects with the Business Product Manager. You will ensure that projects are estimated accurately and delivered on time. You will coordinate meetings and run Agile ceremonies. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, project management, and quality products is important.

Strategy & Planning

• Executes the vision established by the Sr. Product Manager
• Owns the lifecycle of their product(s)
• Manage team backlog and prioritize items.
• Work progress tracking and managing predictability.
• Maintain and communicate weekly status updates.
• Manage sprint iterations and Agile ceremonies like stand up, storyboarding, retrospective, etc.
  
  

• Creates requirements and synthesizes into user stories; Breaks requirements into iterative sprint-sized stories to optimize speed-to-value.
• Develops project plans & participates in release process - manages risks, communicates product needs, and surfaces issues to cross-functional teams and key stakeholders.
• Coordination across 3rd party vendors ensuring timely issue resolution and delivery on key milestones.
• Participates in stand-ups, grooming/planning sessions, demos, and retrospectives. Fosters team collaboration, co-creation, and open communication.
• Learn and understand the customer’s needs; and translate those into business requirements.
• Bachelor's degree required or relevant experience required.
• 4-6 years’ experience as PO/PM required.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Analytical mindset and experience turning insights into action required.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (epics, features, stories,), modern software development practices (test driven development) and tools (Jira, Confluence) required.
• A software engineering background is a definite plus, in addition to QSR experience.