Director, Restaurant Technology

Based in Pasadena, California, Dine Brands Global, Inc. (NYSE: DIN), through its subsidiaries, franchises restaurants under Applebee's Neighborhood Grill + Bar®, IHOP® and Fuzzy's Taco Shop® brands. With over 3,500 restaurants combined in 18 countries and 354 franchisees as of December 31, 2023, Dine Brands is one of the largest full-service restaurant companies in the world. For more information on Dine Brands, visit the Company's website located at www.dinebrands.com.

The Director, Restaurant Technology must be a hands-on leader and is responsible for collaborating, driving, and creating the IT strategy for IHOP, Applebee’s, and Fuzzy’s Taco Shop. They will lead and direct the activities of a team that delivers technology solutions across restaurant brands. The Director will manage a team of engineers and vendor partners to design, develop, and deliver innovative IT solutions, and they will ensure that projects are delivered with high quality. This is a critical and exciting role within IT to deliver innovation that produces business results.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to development of long-range technology solutions roadmap, and ensure products and services are aligned with business needs and all technology solutions are aligned with the Dine Brands business strategy multi-year investment/capital plans and asset creation.
• Establish and maintain IT development and innovation lab.
• Manage an engineering team of 10-15 resources. Responsible for performance reviews and career development.
• Responsible for hardware and software lifecycle management.
• Establish 3rd party vendor partnerships/contracts and management vendor relationships.
• Ensure restaurant technology projects are delivered on-time and on-budget with high quality.
• Work closely with finance and project management teams to manage development projects, define business cases, outline investment criteria, and determine investment priority.
• Work with IT Project Management Organization (PMO), risk, and security teams to ensure compliance and overall governance.
• Base Salary $180,000+
  
  

Skills & Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Business Administration, or equivalent on-the-job experience
• Minimum of 10 years of leadership experience in a business-facing technical role that successfully delivered complex projects and solutions.
• Experience with agile software development and networking.
• Experience leading innovative IT development projects required such as application development, mobile device development, web development, AI, robotics, or IoT experience.
• Proven ability to develop high performing teams.
• Ability to collaborate across organizations.
• Must have vendor management experience. Contract development experience a plus.
• Software Engineering and/or Project Management or scrum certification a plus.
  
  

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