Technical Product Manager - Global Corporate Technology Service Desk

McDonald's evolving Accelerating the Arches growth strategy puts our customers and people first and demonstrates our competitive advantages to strengthen our brand. We are recognized on lists like Fortune’s Most Admired Companies and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies.

Doubling Down on the 4Ds (Delivery, Digital, Drive Thru, and Development)

Our growth pillars emphasize the critical role technology plays as the best-in-class, global omni-channel restaurant brand. Technology enables the organization through digital technologies, and improving the customer, crew and employee experience each and every day!

Global Technology forging the way

Leading the digitization of our business is the Technology organization made up of innovation specialists who build industry defining tech using the latest innovations and platforms, like AI and edge computing to deliver on the next set of groundbreaking opportunities for the business. We take on technology innovation challenges at an incredible scale, and work across global teams who are always hungry for a challenge! This provides access to compelling career paths for technologists. It’s bonus points when you get to see your family and friends use the tech you build at their favorite McD restaurant.

This opportunity is part of the Global Technology Service Desk organization, where our mission is to identify, monitor, prioritize, and solve issues across the McDonald's System for Global Technology products and services.  We value collaboration, thoughtful effort, and clear communications to get our people back to work and our systems back to green quickly and effectively.  As the Technical Product Manager you will manage the relationship with our Global Corporate Service Desk provider and act as a single point of contact for issue escalation and Shift Best continuous improvement.  You will be responsible for driving the Global Corporate Service Desk toward the future of support services, vendor management, governance, and leadership communications.

Responsibilities

• Continuously drive Shift Best activities to improve issues resolution and organizational effectiveness across Global Technology.
• Lead Automation opportunities toward next generation support experiences including Chat, AI, contact management, and pre-emptive issue resolution.
• Define and measure critical metrics for success demonstrating value to our organization.
• Develop and maintain 2-3 year future forward Service Desk evolution plan
• Manage collaboration, communications, and governance with our Global and Market partners to share roadmaps, gather and maintain knowledge and expertise, and foster adoption.
• Collaborate with Global Technology teams to enable understanding and support of end user experience
• Work flexibly to facilitate and manage stakeholder expectations and vendor delivery in a federated environment.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Technology or related experience
• Willingness and drive for continuous improvement and problem solving.
• Patience and empathy paired with technical understanding and communication skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to optimally communicate sophisticated concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Clear understanding of end user experience paired ability to understand technical solutions.
• Ability to solicit and communicate business expectations and build strong client and collaborator relationships.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Willingness and ability to live the McDonald's values every day: Serve, Inclusion, Integrity, Community, and Family.
• Clear understanding of industry trends and opportunities.

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