Principal Product Manager, Configuration Platform

About Toast

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.

The Configuration Platform Team

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.

About the Role

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.

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. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring

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.

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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.

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Key skills/competency

• Product Management
• Configuration Platform
• Technical Product Management
• Platform Strategy
• API Design
• Data Modeling
• Distributed Systems
• AI/ML
• Roadmap Development
• Stakeholder Management