Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.

Toast is evolving — building on its B2B roots to become a bold force in B2C. Beginning in 2025, Toast will go all-in on consumer innovation, leveraging unique restaurant and guest data to create dining experiences that are as personal, relevant, and delightful as they are seamless. Our Local by Toast app is only the beginning. We want to transform the dining experience for guests. We’ll add social features, exclusive deals, and various ways to pay. With AI, our aim is to make each visit incredible by ensuring dining is easy to navigate and memorable.

The competition is fierce. We’re not just up against one big player; we’re competing with the likes of Doordash, Grubhub, OpenTable, Resy, Square, and more. But we are motivated about building so that consumers and restaurants thrive and build deep relationships to ensure dining is a core, sustainable business in our communities.  With a visionary, fledgling brand, and a nimble, driven team raring to go, Toast’s Consumer Design team is focused on turning this vision into a reality.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

We’re looking for a Principal Designer with a proven track record of bringing extraordinary consumer experiences to life. You’ll be at the heart of our consumer push, transforming how millions of people discover and engage with dining.

• Visionary Leadership: Your influence will extend from initial strategy through to final design execution. With a service design mindset, you’ll bring big ideas, a commitment to excellence, and the discipline to deliver experiences that are both delightful and functional, setting the standard for Toast’s consumer experience.
• Craft and Execution: As both a leader and collaborator, you’ll elevate our team’s work by fusing your creativity with an exacting attention to detail. You have a vision bigger than yourself and the humility to see it realized in close partnership with other designers, product teams, and engineers. You understand how to bring experiences to life whether you’re designing in figma or in code.
• High Impact in a New Space: This isn’t just another role; it’s a rare opportunity to shape an end-to-end experience from the ground up in a company poised for innovation in consumer tech. Your work will be visible, influential, and lasting as you design solutions that will become the backbone of how diners connect with restaurants in an entirely new way.

Why Join Toast’s Consumer Design Team?

• Transformative Purpose: This is your chance to pioneer within a company that’s all-in on the consumer journey. You’ll work in an environment that values experimentation, collaboration, and growth, where you can help craft the DNA of a new, consumer-facing brand.
• Unique Data Advantage: Toast has a goldmine of insights from guests and restaurants — data that our competitors can only dream of. You’ll leverage this to design experiences that are unmatched in personalization and relevance, powered by AI in ways that truly enhance the dining experience.

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• You’re an accomplished designer with a deep affinity for and experience in the Consumer space
• The ability to call on knowledge of that experience to pave a path for it going forward.
• You love to share, learn, and lead by example as much as you love to dive into the details with your sleeves rolled up with your design, product, and engineering teammates.
• You’re excited to try new, bold ideas and work closely with your partners to bring them to life.
• You’re just as excited by new as you are to ensure the end-to-end basic quality experience lives up to the hype – and you live for making that happen.
• You’re insistent on smooth interactions, transitions, haptics and advancing the boundaries of UI.
• You’re a tinkerer at heart – always up for trying new things to solve the most pressing JTBD.

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
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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), equity, and benefits.

Pay Range

$157,000—$251,000 USD

 

We are Toasters

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success.

At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.

The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.

Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.

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 [email protected].