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.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
Toast Inc. is seeking a Senior Product Designer (UX/UI) to lead the design strategy and execution for our customer support ecosystem, including customer-facing websites and desktop and mobile experiences. These platforms are key to providing our customers with seamless access to support channels such as live chat and phone, as well as self-service tools for troubleshooting hardware, checking system and ticket status, and accessing our expansive knowledge base.
As a Senior Designer, you will play a critical role in shaping how Toast supports its customers, ensuring our solutions are intuitive, visually appealing, and highly functional. Your work will directly impact our customers’ ability to find solutions quickly, feel supported, and stay focused on running their businesses.
This is a highly visible and hands-on leadership role where you will collaborate with cross-functional teams and work directly with conversational and service designers to create experiences that reflect Toast’s commitment to excellent customer service and innovation in the restaurant technology space.
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
- Leadership: Proven ability to lead high-impact design initiatives at a senior level.
- Focus: Lead the end-to-end design process for the customer support ecosystem, including web and native mobile platforms, to create intuitive, integrated user experiences for features such as live chat, phone support, self-service tools, and knowledge resources. Importantly, we have an AI-first design culture, so expect to lead AI-first thinking and feature development and integration across all of these areas from a product standpoint.
- User-Centered Design: Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, usability, and accessibility standards.
- Pro-research: Proven ability and desire to conduct and coordinate user research and usability testing to inform design decisions.
- Tools: Proficiency in design tools like Figma, Miro, and other traditional collaborative design platforms as well as fluency with AI prototyping tools like V0, Magic Patterns, Claude Code etc.
- 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.
- Mentorship: Drive strategic design initiatives and mentor junior designers, promoting best practices and fostering a culture of innovation
What will help you stand out (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.
- AI-first mindset and behaviors: As a design team, we’re forward thinking. We bring an AI-first mentality as we design innovative experiences for our customers. Curiosity, excitement rolling up your sleeves and generating work and systems with this transformational technology is a necessity.
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.
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 and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions, if eligible), benefits, and equity (if eligible).
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.
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 [email protected].
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