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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*
We’re looking for an Associate Product Designer for POS Innovation. You will help design experiences that connect in-store restaurant operations with real-time data through LLMs, AI agents, voice and even video. Toast sits at the intersection of hospitality and data. Every order placed, dish served, and table turned generates insights that can unlock smarter operations and more personalized guest experiences. This is a role on a fast paced team focused on using innovation to drive impact. Your work will help restaurants deliver better service and make smarter decisions to deliver exceptional hospitality at scale.
We’re looking for a motivated designer who is eager to learn, always asks questions, owns the quality of their work, and collaborates at every opportunity. This individual will grow their skills with guidance from a mentor while working on intuitive experiences that make a difference and “Do right by the customer.” We seek a teammate dedicated to our mission; helping restaurants do what they love and thrive.
The right ingredients* (Requirements)
- 1-2 years of experience in a product design role
- Proficient in designing for responsive web and native mobile platforms including wireframes, user journey maps, prototypes and detailed designs
- Ability to work with UI components to create pixel perfect experiences
- Experience using Figma and other prototyping and design collaboration tools
- Enough user research fluency to plan and conduct research that generates actionable insights
- Understand how to conduct design reviews to obtain feedback and iterate on designs to improve results
- Proactive about seeking out guidance and mentorship from others
- Able to work in a fast-paced hybrid work environment and independently manage tasks
Special Sauce* (Nonessential Skills/Nice to Haves)
- Experience designing for 0 to 1 products
- Experience (or deep interest) in applying AI technologies to real-world product experiences
About You
You are a dynamic team player 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 your work.
- You lift others up: and recognize you don’t have to be a manager to engage and exhibit true leadership. You proactively participate in the team and support the culture.
- 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 within your direct work teams.
- You build strong perspectives: and guide yourself and your teams to make good decisions quickly and often. You make informed decisions within your direct project spaces.
- You raise the bar: and commit to continually improving the technical skills relevant to your role. You take direct feedback and internalize learnings to improve over time.
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
The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions, if eligible), benefits, and equity (if eligible).
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.
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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 [email protected].
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Toast Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
Toast’s headquarters is located in the heart of the Seaport District. Toasters are surrounded by art, culture, and delicious cuisine in one of the most bustling neighborhoods in Boston.
Early Careers
Toast's Early Careers program is designed to launch students' careers by integrating them into the company's vibrant culture and impactful work. Interns and co-ops are treated as full-time Toasters from day one, given meaningful projects, and provided with mentorship from industry professionals. The program emphasizes hands-on learning, collaboration across teams, and the autonomy for students to develop and showcase their skills, supported by consistent feedback. Toast offers opportunities across various departments, including technical roles like Software Engineering and Data Science, as well as non-technical roles such as Human Resources and People Operations.
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