Senior Engineering Manager, Commerce

Toast Toast · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland · R & D : Engineering : Customer Experience Platform

This role leads the strategy and execution for Toast's self-service support ecosystem and account management experiences, focusing on customer issue resolution and engagement. It involves applying AI and automation to understand customer context and surface insights across support, billing, and account experiences, while ensuring clarity and trust in communications and charges. The role requires strong leadership in building scalable systems for self-service support, proactive communications, and account management, with a focus on customer experience and operational efficiency.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the technical vision and execution for Toast’s Support Center, communications platform, and pricing and billing experiences, driving measurable improvements in customer self-service and operational efficiency.
  2. Create leverage across product, support, and business teams by building scalable systems for self-service support, proactive communications, and account management.
  3. Apply AI and automation to support and account experiences, enabling better understanding of customer context (e.g., support history, knowledge, billing, and subscriptions) and surfacing relevant insights, actions, and guidance.
  4. Break down complex, cross-functional initiatives into clear, incremental milestones that deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes.
  5. Establish and uphold technical standards, architecture patterns, and best practices across the organization.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience leading high-performing product, platform, or customer experience teams in complex, cross-functional environments.
  • Strong background in full-stack systems, with experience building customer-facing applications that integrate with a wide range of backend services, platforms, and data systems.
  • Proven experience owning and scaling customer-facing platforms or systems that span multiple teams and touchpoints.
  • Ability to translate broad, ambiguous strategic goals into clear roadmaps and execution plans.
  • Demonstrated success partnering with product stakeholders to drive measurable outcomes
  • Strong communication and leadership skills with experience influencing senior technical and product leaders and aligning teams around shared goals
  • Track record of building inclusive, high-ownership teams and developing talent.

Nice to have

  • Experience leading teams that sit at the intersection of customer-facing platforms and internal systems such as support, communications, or billing.
  • Background in experimentation driven product development or optimizing customer journeys through data-driven experimentation.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI and automation to support and account experiences
  • customer-facing applications
  • customer-facing platforms or systems