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Principal Product Designer, Toast IQ Core (AI Product Team)

Toast 🇺🇸 United States of America

Hybrid $149,000 - $304,000 Full-time Senior

Lead the design strategy and execution for Toast IQ, an AI assistant product, across web, mobile, and hardware platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop agentic workflows and drive the adoption of intelligence features for restaurant operators.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design strategy and execution for Toast IQ Core
  • Partner closely with product, engineering, data science, go-to-market, and third-party partners to define the future of intelligence at Toast
  • Drive prototyping and experimentation for evolving AI features like memory and personalization, agentic workflows and actions
  • Conduct and coordinate data analysis, user research and usability testing to inform design decisions

Requirements

  • Leadership: Proven ability to lead high-impact design initiatives at a principal level
  • Focus: Lead the end-to-end design process for core UX/UI features within Toast's AI ecosystem
  • User-Centered Design: Deep understanding of emerging AI use cases and tooling, foundational user-centered design principles, usability, and accessibility standards
  • Pro-research: Proven ability and desire to conduct and coordinate data analysis, user research and usability testing to inform design decisions
  • Tools: Proficiency in emerging AI tools and design tools like Figma, Miro, and other collaborative design platforms
  • Partner Collaboration: Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits programs
  • Opportunity to work with industry-leading technology and talent
  • High-impact visible projects
  • Diverse project portfolio
  • Professional growth and development opportunities

Key Skills

User-Centered Design Emerging AI use cases and tooling Usability testing Accessibility standards Data analysis User research Figma Miro Collaborative design platforms Communication skills Cross-functional collaboration Leadership Mentorship Prototyping Experimentation APIs Data flows Personalization algorithms LLMs A/B testing Personalization engines Automation frameworks

About Toast

Toast is the operating system behind the hardest-working people out there — the restaurateurs and retailers running busy businesses. We build tools to match their effort, rigorously designed to perform under pressure, with 1,000 little features for every make-or-break moment. Our POS platform brings hardware, software, AI, and financial technology together to help operators get busy, stay busy, and run busy. We’re Toasters, proud to innovate alongside our customers. Want to join us? https://careers.toasttab.com/

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