Principal Product Manager, Enterprise Change Management

• 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.
• At Toast, we are committed to empowering our customers by providing the technology, resources, and community they need to thrive.
• While our roots are in food service, we are rapidly expanding into adjacent markets and international territories.
• Our mission is to build a world-class publishing and configuration platform that supports the diverse needs of all Toast customers, regardless of their industry, location, or the size of their business.
• As a member of the Configuration Platform team, you will be at the heart of Toast's most critical infrastructure.
• We are the high-concurrency engine powering live system updates across the entire Toast ecosystem.
• This platform powers how business-critical data is created, versioned, and deployed across Toast—from menus and pricing to taxes and operational rules.
• Whether it's a menu change in Ireland or a pricing update for a 100 location enterprise, it all flows through our systems.
• We give customers the confidence and precision tools they need to manage complex configurations and run their global businesses with ease.
• Beyond serving end-users, we are an ever-evolving internal platform. We aim to empower other Toast engineering teams to build, deploy, and scale their own features quickly on top of our robust architecture.
• We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to drive the vision, strategy, and execution of our configuration and change management experience across the Toast platform.
• You'll work closely with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to craft an experience that supports our customers and the needs of their business.

A day in the life

(Responsibilities)

• Own and evolve the product strategy for Toast's configuration platform, with a focus on:
• Designing systems that safely manage changes to critical business data, including validation, versioning, auditability, and rollback at scale
• Building and evolving a configuration platform that works for SMB, multi-unit operator, and Enterprise use cases across the Toast experience
• Exploring and integrating automation and AI-assisted ('agentic') workflows into configuration and publishing experiences
• Build platform capabilities that enable other Toast teams to develop, test, and deploy configuration-driven features independently
• Build and maintain a roadmap in alignment with business OKRs, customer needs, and technical feasibility
• Drive feature development from ideation through launch—writing clear specs, collaborating with engineering and design, and measuring success
• Partner with customer-facing teams and other development teams to gather insights and evangelize product value
• In partnership with engineering and design counterparts, lead a development team by providing clear direction, setting priorities, and fostering a culture of customer-centricity, innovation, and accountability
• Embrace and advocate for the use of AI tools to accelerate product discovery, streamline execution, and explore new product experiences - helping shape how we build and what we build.

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• 8+ years of product management experience, including significant ownership of a technical platform or infrastructure products
• Strong track record of delivering user-facing features in fast-paced environments
• Experience working on systems involving APIs, data models, or distributed architecture
• Analytical rigor—you use data to make decisions and validate assumptions
• Empathy for restaurants and a passion for improving their day-to-day
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence without authority

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-REMOTE

• 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 .

Zone A

$190,000 — $304,000 USD

Zone B

$165,000 — $264,000 USD

Zone C

$149,000 — $238,000 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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