Director of Product Design, Toast
Marketing and Digital Storefront Suite
$177-283k
+Equity
Point of sale and management system for restaurants
Open for applications
Point of sale and management system for restaurants
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$177-283k
+Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Toast's mission is to enrich the food experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a Director of Product Design with a deep passion for crafting exceptional user experiences to shape our Digital Storefront and Guest Marketing product suites
- The ideal candidate knows how to balance high craft and speed, is a passionate advocate for customer-centered design, is not afraid to dig into the metrics, is a skilled mentor who fosters a culture of creativity and experimentation
- A proactive, outcome-oriented design leader with 7+ years experience partnering with product, engineering, and marketing to understand users, translating that understanding into strategy that drives customer and business outcomes
- You see around corners, responding the present and seeing the future to lead the team to create intuitive experiences across responsive web and native mobile platforms
- You possess an enduring sense of curiosity with a desire to continuously learn and evolve
- You Regularly conduct design reviews to obtain feedback, iterating on the designs to improve results
- You have a growth mindset - you see challenges as opportunities, believe feedback is a gift and can speak confidently to the why
What the job involves
- In this role, you will play a pivotal role in leading design, strategy, and vision across the organization; fundamentally you’ll help restaurants bring more guests to their restaurants more often using tools that represent their unique version of hospitality
- Your work will span across traditional product led growth initiatives, as well as core guest surfaces and new 0-1 product experiences. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, accessible, and engaging solutions that meet user needs and drive business growth
- You'll work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and analytics to define overall organization strategy and inspire the team
- Strategic Leadership: Develop and drive the overall product design vision for the growth organization, aligning it with business goals and user needs
- Team Development: Build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing design team, fostering a culture of creativity, design excellence, and impact
- Design Excellence: Coach team members to continually improve their craft and deliver an exceptional experience
- Customer Insights: Leverage qualitative and quantitative research to inform design decisions and continuously improve product experiences
- Metrics-Driven: Use design to drive critical business metrics and KPIs
Our take
Running a restaurant means managing a stressful set of elements, all needing to work together seamlessly to create a good experience for diners. Toast helps to streamline processes, and puts an end to piles of paperwork, by providing a platform whereby tableside ordering, menu modifications, labour management, payroll, and more are all housed in one system that can run from a tablet.
Toast offers restaurant-grade hardware and cloud-based customisable payment solutions to serve clients from startup through to growth phase, as well as a service for established restaurants. By combining all the digital services a restaurant might need, the platform can act as the one and comprehensive solution for restaurants of any size, avoiding restaurateurs having to invest in a range of technologies.
Toast has over 70,000 restaurants on its books, from food trucks to national brands, and its mobile ordering and payment solutions have made it a recognized brand for consumers. The company's IPO in 2021 saw it valued at over $30 billion and since then, it has added more features to its product suite including wholesale and catering order tools. Toast then, has proven its place as an indispensable player in the restaurant space.
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Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2020
$400m
SERIES F
Apr 2019
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $899m
Company benefits
- Peer and company recognition programs
- Unlimited Vacation
- Sabbatical opportunity after five years
- Professional Development Reimbursement Program
- Commitment to Employee Wellness through resources such as a quarterly Wellness Stipend
- Various peer and company recognition programs
- 401(k) and matching
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
- Mental Health Benefits
- Subsidized backup childcare
Company HQ
Fenway–Kenmore, Boston, MA
Leadership
Steve Fredette
(President)They studied at MIT before co-founding Klick Mobile in 2009 and spending almost 7 years at Endeca. They left their Management role in June 2012 having co-founded Toast in May.
Aman Narang
(CEO)Having studied Computer Science at MIT, they worked at Endeca for 5 years. They moved from working as Product Manager to work full-time as President of Toast in 2013, having co-founded it the previous year.
Jonathan Grimm
(CTO)They also studied Computer Science at MIT before working as an Engineer for Endeca for over 4 years. They worked at Oracle for 5 months prior to co-founding Toast in May 2012.
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