About Toast
Our focus is on building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. And because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people, restaurants can trust that we’ll deliver on their needs for today while investing in experiences that will power their restaurant of the future. We build experiences that help make operating and growing a restaurant and delighting guests easier and scalable. It’s why tens of thousands of restaurant locations love Toast.
About The Roll*
Toast Inc. is seeking a Senior Product Designer (UX/UI) to drive experimentation and execution for an experience focused** around the agentic management of restaurants and their people**. You will design end-to-end AI-first experiences on surfaces like our customer-facing web and native mobile experiences. These platforms are the touchpoints that thread together the restaurant ecosystem and allow Toast to serve up the insights and opportunities that make restaurants great and employees happy. The agentic experiences you build will inform how a restaurant pays and schedules employees, how the restaurant team communicates and connects, and how restaurant employees can be supported in their professional development.
You will play a critical role in shaping how Toast supports its customers, ensuring our solutions are simple, intuitive, and highly functional. Your work will directly impact our customers’ ability to find solutions quickly, feel supported, and stay focused on running their businesses. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and work directly with other product designers to create experiences that reflect Toast’s commitment to excellent customer service and innovation in the restaurant technology space.
The right ingredients* (Requirements)
- Prototyping: You’ll demonstrate fluency with AI-native prototyping tools such as Cursor, v0, Replit etc alongside Figma for rapid concept exploration and functional prototypes. You must be able to generate working artifacts that the team can test with real customers.
- **Quality: **You’ll leverage Toast’s design system in concert with creative experimentation to help direct the future of Toast products towards an experience that exemplifies quality, refinement, and ease-of-use.
- Data-driven: You’ll track and design experiences that move a multitude of customer success metrics, as well as leverage data to drive better designs and customer outcomes.
- Experimentation, learning & growth: A portion of your role will include running experiments to discover solutions. You’ll need to be excited about continuous learning and maintaining a working understanding of AI infrastructure concepts relevant to design, including our AI Assistant (Toast IQ), platform tool use, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and agent orchestration patterns.
- **Pro-research: You have **the ability and desire to conduct and coordinate user research and usability testing to inform design decisions. You also use data, analytics and conversation history to dig in, find opportunities and solve problems for our customers.
- Collaboration: Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define design requirements and align on goals.
Special Sauce* (Nonessential Skills/Nice to Haves)
- Restaurant Passion: First hand experience and enthusiasm for the restaurant industry and designing impactful solutions for its unique challenges is something we value highly
- **Past Experiences: Experience and passion for designing at the very edge of technology for modern customer support experiences (AI chat bots, agent tooling, voice AI experiences etc) is a HUGE plus. **
- **Fluency with tools: **Any experience working AI tools for design, research, etc
About You
You are a dynamic leader with proven impact in previous roles who is ready and willing to take on new challenges! You’re excited to join the remotely distributed group of product designers, user researchers, design ops leaders, and product managers that compose the Toast Design team. You embody the tenets that drive Toast’s Design practice:
- You have a founder’s mentality and exhibit ownership of outcomes over outputs. You own the quality and outcomes associated with full end to end experiences.
- You lift others up and recognize you don’t have to be a manager to engage and exhibit true leadership. You find formal ways to utilize your personal skill set to uplevel those around you.
- **You drive action through influence **and appreciate that building trusting and productive relationships with those around you_ _is integral to driving action. You build strong relationships to enact influence throughout the entirety of the area of the business you work within.
- **You build strong perspectives **and guide yourself and your teams to make good decisions quickly and often. You collaboratively make well informed decisions with large scale impact across the area of the business you work within.
- **You raise the bar **and commit to continually improving the technical skills relevant to your role. You find large scale, creative methods to continually build your skill set.
Our Spread of Total Rewards*
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.
*Bread puns encouraged but not required
Bready to make a change? Apply today!*
Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
AI at Toast
At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.
#LI-Remote
The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and benefits. You can learn more about how we align pay with local labor markets in our Geographic Pay Zone Philosophy.
Zone A
$159,000—$254,000 USD
Zone B
$138,000—$221,000 USD
Zone C
$125,000—$200,000 USD
How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process
Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success
At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.
We Thrive Together
We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.
Apply today!
Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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