Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.
Our customers trust us with their payments, their staff data, and the system their restaurant runs on. We hold ourselves to a high bar in protecting it. This role's job is to make that provable — to a restaurant group's IT team, to an enterprise procurement reviewer, and to a regulator — fast enough that security becomes a reason we win deals rather than a step that slows them down.
This is one of the clearest expressions of a broader shift underway in Toast's new Trust & Security organization: moving from a compliance-led, reactive function toward one that's engineering-led and proactive, where trust is treated as a product rather than asserted in documents. Customer Trust is the business engine of that shift.
The role has two halves, and we want to be upfront about that. The first is external customer-facing: you own how Toast demonstrates its security to the market. The second focuses on our internal customers and stakeholders: you own the planning and operating rhythm of the security organization itself. Both are senior work, and the combination will have significant impact across the company.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
- Run the Customer Trust Program: Own the Trust Center, customer security reviews and questionnaires, and how we support the sales team. You own the customer-facing surface — the Trust Center, the review process, and the relationship with sales. Our Security Assurance & Compliance team produces the underlying evidence; you decide how it's presented and how fast it moves.
- Lead Governance and Reporting: Own policy, security measurement, and the reporting rhythm for leadership, the board, and regulators, so each audience is working from a rhythm they trust.
- Run Security Business Operations: Own portfolio management, joint planning, and workforce and budget planning for the security organization; write the budget and headcount case that leadership believes.
- Build Security Culture: Build awareness and design our champions program so it extends the security function's reach without adding headcount.
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
- You've built a customer-facing trust or assurance program for a platform business — a Trust Center, a customer security review function, or a security sales-support motion.
- You work comfortably where security, sales, and executive communication meet, and you can translate security posture into business terms.
- Strong program and portfolio management, and you can write a budget and headcount case that people believe.
- You've presented to executives, boards, and regulators.
- You've led a team of 10 or more, including managers.
What will help you stand out (Nonessential Skills/Nice to Haves)
- Payments, fintech, or another regulated platform business.
- A background spanning both a technical security function and a customer-facing one.
- Experience turning a security program into an asset the sales team relies on.
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.
Our Total Rewards Philosophy
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.
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.
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. We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
Our Approach to Hybrid Working
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 hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast
People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success
At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other.
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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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