Manager, Business Technical Analysis
Date: Jun 27, 2025
Location: Chicago, IL, US, 60607
Company: McDonald's Corporation
Company Description:
McDonald’s growth strategy, Accelerating the Arches, encompasses all aspects of our business as the leading global omni-channel restaurant brand. As the consumer landscape shifts we are using our competitive advantages to further strengthen our brand. One of our core growth strategies is to Double Down on the 3Ds (Delivery, Digital and Drive Thru). McDonald’s will accelerate technology innovation so 65M+ customers a day will experience a fast, easy experience, whether at one of our 25,000 and growing Drive thrus, through McDelivery, dine-in or takeaway.
McDonald’s Global Technology is here to power tomorrow’s feel-good moments.
That’s why you’ll find us at the forefront of transformative technology, exploring new and innovative ways to serve our millions of customers and spread happiness one delicious Hot Fudge Sundae-dipped fry at a time. Using AI, robotics and emerging tech, we’re digitizing the Golden Arches. Combine that with our unparalleled global scale, and we’re reshaping all areas of the business, industry and every community that is home to a McDonald’s restaurant. We face complex tech challenges every day. But that’s where our diverse and talented teams come in. They’re made up of the best and brightest from all over the globe, and they thrive in the space where feel-good meets fast-paced.
Check out the McDonald’s Global Technology Technical Blog to learn how technology and our global team are directly enabling the Accelerating the Arches strategy.
Department Overview
Global Technology forging the way
Leading the digitization of our business is the Technology organization made up of intrapreneurs who build industry defining tech using the latest innovations and platforms, like AI and edge computing to deliver on the next set of cutting-edge opportunities for the business. At McDonald’s you get to solve technology innovation challenges at an incredible scale, and work across global teams who are always hungry for a challenge. This provides access to exciting 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 McDonald’s restaurant.
We are looking for a self-starter to be a part of the US Technology Solution Readiness team. The Manager, Business Technical Analysis role will lead a group of Business Technical Analysts focused on gathering requirements, defining acceptance criteria, and assisting in the deployment of new technology solutions to our Restaurant and Consumer platforms. Maintaining an open channel with stakeholders to gather business requirements and transforming them into technology requirements is a key success factor for this role. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the transformation of McDonald’s.
This role is based at our McDonald’s Global Headquarters in Chicago, IL.
Duties
- Assesses and defines impact on local market solutions.
- Gather and write market specific requirements and acceptance criteria for new features.
- Integrate and /or modify local market solutions where feasible to support innovation.
- Rapidly validate integration with local market solutions to ensure successful testing.
- Serve as market technology subject matter expert resource to global innovation teams.
- Stakeholder management to influence our Digital and Engineering partners.
- Identify and implement process efficiencies across systems and resources.
- Review and prioritize defects impacting customers.
- Serve as a point-person for questions and be able to dig deep into problems to help find a solution.
- Work with operators and franchisees to identify enhancement opportunities
- Understand and anticipate operations, crew, customer, and business needs.
- Work closely with peer product managers across all channels and capabilities to prioritize initiatives, find opportunities for collaboration, and coordinate product development and delivery.
- Guide quality testing and Pilot testing for new product releases and features.
Qualifications
- Willingness and ability to live the McDonald’s values every day: Serve, Inclusion, Integrity, Community, and Family.
- Minimum of 5 years working in an agile environment, preferably with customer-facing, mobile and digital products.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities successfully.
- Desire to work in a fast-paced, often changing, and sometimes ambiguous environment.
- Strong quantitative analysis skills and knowledge on how to use reporting tools.
- Proven ability to work with and influence cross functional team and stakeholders.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience leading complex, cross-functional projects.
- Familiarity with native software development tools and platform standard methodologies.
- Curious and a self-starter with a strong bias for action; Consistent track record of “getting things done”.
- Detail-obsessed and able to meet deadlines.
- Expertise in digital project and product planning - including feature/defect prioritization, trade-off processes, roadmap creation and timeline planning.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prefer experience in Quick Service Restaurant industry
Compensation
Bonus Eligible: Yes
Long - Term Incentive: Yes
Benefits Eligible: Yes
Salary Range
The expected salary range for this role is $112,860.00 - $143,900.00 per year
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.
Competencies
Additional Information:
Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, adoption assistance program, educational assistance program, flexible ways of working, and time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO). Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment.
Bonus eligible: This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance.
Long term Incentive eligible: This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to McDonald’s long-term incentive plan.
McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
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Nearest Major Market: Chicago