Product Designer - Platform (Archived) | VirtualInterview.ai

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.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

Toast is building modern, reliable, and scalable web and mobile experiences that power restaurants and businesses of every size—from single-location operators to complex multi-location groups. As a Product Designer focused on Core web and mobile Experiences and the Design System, you’ll shape the foundations: the patterns, components, and interaction models that make our web and mobile experiences cohesive, efficient to build, and delightful to use.

You’ll work across product areas to strengthen navigation, information architecture, common workflows, and system-level UX—while partnering closely with Design System engineering to deliver a robust component library, as well as AI-connected tooling and clear guidance that helps teams move faster with higher quality.

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

Own core web and mobile UX patterns: Define and evolve cross-product experiences like navigation, layout, tables, forms, settings, permissions, multi-step workflows as well as AI features and interactions.

Build and scale the design system: Create and maintain components, patterns, tokens, workflows and guidelines that drive consistency across our web and mobile ecosystem.

Enable other teams: Provide consultative support to product designers and engineers adopting system patterns; improve adoption through documentation and enablement, examples, and best practices.

Partner deeply with engineering: Collaborate with frontend and design system engineers to ensure components are feasible, accessible, performant, and production-ready.

Drive quality across the platform: Lead UX reviews, spot inconsistencies, drive modern tooling and establish standards that elevate usability and visual polish.

Champion accessibility: Ensure experiences meet accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG) through design decisions, documentation, automated tooling and QA practices.

Use data + research to guide decisions: Pair qualitative insights (research, feedback) with quantitative signals (usage, funnel metrics) to prioritize improvements.

Influence roadmap and strategy: Identify foundational gaps, propose system investments, and align stakeholders on sequencing and impact.

Stakeholder Communication: Clearly articulate design concepts, experiments and rationale to stakeholders, incorporating feedback and aligning solutions with strategic business goals.

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

Restaurant Passion: First hand experience and enthusiasm for the restaurant industry and designing impactful solutions for its unique challenges is something we highly value

AI-first mindset and behaviors: As a design team, we’re forward thinking. We bring an AI-first mentality as we design innovative experiences for our customers. Curiosity, excitement rolling up your sleeves and generating work and systems with this transformational technology is a necessity.

Technical-proficiency: There will be days where you’ll be deep in the weeds of tokenization and system configuration (e.g. connecting MCP and AI tools, compliance monitoring etc)

About You

You are a dynamic team player with proven impact in previous roles who is ready and willing to take on new challenges! You’re excited to join the remotely distributed group of product designers, user researchers, design ops leaders, and product managers that compose the Toast Design team. You embody the tenets that drive Toast’s Design practice:

You have a founder’s mentality: and exhibit ownership of outcomes over outputs. You own the quality and outcomes associated with your work, as well as additional areas your work touches.

You lift others up: and recognize you don’t have to be a manager to engage and exhibit true leadership. You offer help and guidance across all different collaborators you work with.

You drive action through influence: and appreciate that building trusting and productive relationships with those around you is integral to driving action. You build strong relationships to enact influence with all key stakeholders of the area of the business you work within.

You build strong perspectives: and guide yourself and your teams to make good decisions quickly and often. You collaboratively make well informed decisions by synthesizing a wide variety of data sources.

You raise the bar: and commit to continually improving the technical skills relevant to your role. You actively engage in your own learning and development and deeply internalize learnings and lessons from your project work.

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 and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions, if eligible), benefits, and equity (if eligible).

Pay Range

$115,000—$184,000 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.

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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