Business Development Manager, Retail

• 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.
• After years building the best POS platform for restaurateurs, Toast is expanding its offerings into other food and beverage concepts such as convenience stores, grocery stores, and bottle shops.
• This role will require a founder's mindset as we grow Toast's presence in this new vertical with a new offering: the Toast Retail platform.
• This role offers a fantastic opportunity to join the sales leadership team at Toast!

What you'll do

(Responsibilities):

• As a Manager for the Business Development team, you will hire, develop, coach, and train a team of outbound business development professionals.
• If you enjoy managing and building a team and are excited about transforming the way convenience stores, grocery stores, and bottle shops operate, then this is the role for you!

• Hire, coach and manage a team of Business Development Representatives (BDR) to exceed quota.
• Lead by example in demonstrating Toast's core values and inspiring a culture of high performance, respect and fun.
• Manage day to day activities of the BDR team including: live coaching, career and skill development, monitor productivity metrics to identify opportunities and risks, and ultimately drive results on activity, opportunity generation and revenue creation.
• Keep a tight focus on outcomes, impact, and productivity, and report results to senior growth sales and marketing leadership.
• Work closely with cross-functional partners on the Retail Sales Team, such as managers and account executives, to ensure proper alignment on opportunity quality.
• Work to identify the best talent in our industry and maintain headcount

requirements

across your team.

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements):

• Management experience with a proven track record of hiring, retaining and developing individuals and team
• Experience working in and building business development teams that drive opportunities and revenue.
• An ability to adapt amidst rapid growth and change.
• Experience achieving and exceeding goals (as individual or manager) and building and managing key metrics for a sales organization.
• Self motivated, creative, empathetic, flexible with the ability to perform well under pressure.
• Proficient in CRM systems (Salesforce)
• An entrepreneurial and feedback-driven mindset.

What will help you stand out (Nonessential Skills/Nice to Haves):

• Direct experience working in the hospitality or retail industries
• Experience standing up a new vertical or establishing the playbook for success with a new sales motion

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 .

#LI-DNI

• The estimated Total Targeted Cash compensation range for this role is listed below.
• Total Targeted Cash for this role includes base salary, commission, and bonus (if eligible).
• This role qualifies for uncapped commissions.
• The starting salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location.
• In addition to cash compensation, our total rewards components include benefits and equity (if eligible).
• You can learn more about how we align pay with local labor markets in our Geographic Pay Zone Philosophy .

Zone A

$159,000 — $254,000 USD

Zone B

$138,000 — $221,000 USD

Zone C

$124,000 — $199,000 USD

• 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.

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.

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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