Senior Product Designer at Toast

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 this roll* (responsibilities): We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer with a deep passion for crafting exceptional user experiences and solving complex systems challenges across experiences at Toast. In this role, you will: • Partner closely with product, engineering, and research to deeply understand our users and translate that understanding into thoughtful, intuitive product experiences. • Design end-to-end workflows across responsive web and native mobile, delivering clear wireframes, flows, prototypes, and design specs that guide product development. • Simplify complex, scaled operator workflows, helping restaurants manage menus, locations, and configurations with clarity and consistency. • Contribute to the evolution of AI-driven tools that help operators make better, faster decisions. • Apply systems thinking to design and evolve platform-level experiences (e.g., multi-location management, restaurant configuration, menu management) that scale coherently across multiple product lines • Partner closely with the Design System team to ensure consistency and long-term extensibility. • Participate in design critiques and reviews, giving and receiving feedback that strengthens the quality of the work. • Support qualitative and quantitative research activities, translating insights into actionable product improvements. • Collaborate with localization and international teams to ensure designs are culturally appropriate and adaptable across different languages and regions. • Advocate for customer-centered design, elevating user needs and helping maintain a high bar of craft across the team. Do you have the right ingredients*? (requirements): • Having over 7 years of experience in designing and building scalable solutions. • Experience designing holistic, end-to-end product experiences—comfortable moving from broad journeys to detailed interactions. • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, proactively seeking clarity and adapting as responsibilities evolve. • Designing at a systems level with comfort contributing to and shaping design systems, identifying reusable patterns, influencing standards, and collaborating with partners to balance product-specific needs with platform-wide scalability. • Fluency in user-centered design methods and enough research literacy to ground design decisions in insights and data. • Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills; able to build trust and influence partners across disciplines. • Enduring sense of curiosity with a desire to continuously learn and evolve. • Advanced proficiency in Figma and other prototyping or design collaboration tools. • Passion for creating intuitive, delightful experiences that feel native across platforms and regions. Special sauce* (nonessential skills/nice to haves): • Your collaborative style inspires others to the point where people ask to work with you and your expertise and confidence have others seeking out your informed perspective. • You’re passionate about maintaining a healthy work-life balance by scoping, setting expectations and maintaining your boundaries. • You have a growth mindset - you see challenges as opportunities, believe feedback is a gift and can speak confidently about failures & what you learned from them. 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: [Upgrade to PRO to see link] Apply today! Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. 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