Location: Toronto, Canada with 1 day a week in office
Note: travel to Quebec required up to 20% of time
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.
Toast is driven by building a platform that helps our customers adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.
International expansion is a critical growth engine for Toast's future. Outside the US, we currently operate in Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia and are actively growing our product platform in these markets. We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the Canadian product roadmap including depth & differentiation in our current customer base and expansion into new regions like Quebec. You will work closely with engineering, design, sales, finance, operations, and marketing partners to deliver a product that helps our customers thrive. In this unique and highly visible role, you will be the primary advocate for the Canadian restaurant ecosystem and have a direct impact on how Toast serves customers in Canada.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
- Define, prioritize, and deliver strategic roadmap initiatives that improve the value proposition of Toast for our customer base
- Champion field research & validation: Spend time with customers in Canada to understand how the existing product must evolve to meet their unique customer needs and operational requirements.
- Plan and execute discovery, rapid prototyping, and in-restaurant pilots; iterate based on operational feedback and scale successful experiments.
- Collaborate with localization and international teams to lead our launch into Quebec
- Define pricing, packaging, and go-to-market strategy with Product Marketing, Sales, and Operations; identify commercial models that fit restaurants of different sizes.
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
- ~6+ years shipping complex software or payments products with demonstrated ownership of multi-team programs or a major product portfolio
- Proven track record taking a product from discovery through prototype and pilot to scale.
- Experience conducting on-site discovery and validating prototypes in operational environments (restaurant or other physical venues).
- Exemplary stakeholder management and ability to align senior partners across sales,, engineering, ops, and GTM, especially on high-visibility initiatives.
- Communication & influence. Clear, persuasive written and verbal communication; able to synthesize technical tradeoffs and business value for executives and partners.
- Experience launching or running Quebec programs, including French language skills
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.
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
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.
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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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Skills Required
- 6+ years shipping complex software or payments products
- Proven track record taking a product from discovery through prototype and pilot to scale
- Experience conducting on-site discovery and validating prototypes
- Exemplary stakeholder management ability
- Clear and persuasive communication skills
- Experience launching Quebec programs including French language skills
What the Team is Saying
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Toast Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental/family/medical leave is extensive, featuring 16 weeks for all parents with additional time for birthing parents, alongside fertility guidance/stipends and subsidized backup child/adult care.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible PTO, paid company holidays, and a paid sabbatical available after five years expand rest options and long‑term renewal.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — No‑cost therapy and coaching, a wellness stipend, financial education, work‑enablement and professional development stipends, donation matching, and preferred pet‑insurance pricing support holistic wellbeing.
Toast Insights
What We Do
Toast is the all-in-one platform built for restaurants of all sizes. Toast provides a single platform of software as a service (SaaS) products and financial technology solutions that give restaurants everything they need to run their business, including point of sale, payments, supplier management, digital ordering and delivery, marketing and loyalty, and team management. By serving as the restaurant operating system across dine-in, takeout, and delivery channels, Toast helps restaurants increase revenue, streamline operations and deliver amazing guest experiences.
Why Work With Us
Our recipe for an awesome workplace: One splash of friendship A dollop of impact A sprinkle of no hierarchy & A heavy spoonful of individuality Mix these ingredients in a fast-paced and hardworking environment. Best paired with a side of interesting people who always bring their whole selves to work. *100% Sunday scary free
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