Toast

Design Lead, New Ventures

Toast

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $138,000 - $221,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Own design end-to-end for one of Toast’s new ventures —from fuzzy early concepts to shippable experiences (and everything in between).
  • Use AI tools to iterate quickly: generate and compare concepts, accelerate exploration, and bring workflows to life through rapid prototyping.
  • Design information-dense experiences that are still highly scannable and decision-oriented—prioritizing hierarchy, progressive disclosure, and clear actions.
  • Create prototypes that feel real—clickable flows, interaction models, and lightweight specs that help product and engineering make decisions fast.
  • Make smart tradeoffs under constraints—move fast with MVP patterns, while sweating the details that matter most (hierarchy, states, error handling, accessibility, and clarity)
  • Run with a bias for action and testing: quickly validate assumptions via low-fi experiments, usability testing, dogfooding, and iterative refinement.
  • Operate autonomously: set your own plan, seek input when needed, and keep momentum without waiting for perfect clarity – while partnering closely with product and engineering teams.
  • Communicate clearly: tell the story of what you’re building, why it matters, and what you learned—through artifacts, demos, and written narratives.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated ability to move from ambiguity to a strong point of view, then turn that into tangible UI flows quickly with modern tools
  • Demonstrated strength translating complex workflows and high volumes of inputs/data into interfaces that are simple, scannable, and decision-oriented.
  • Strong product thinking: you can connect user needs, business outcomes, and feasibility into a cohesive experience.
  • High comfort working in 0→1 environments where priorities shift, learning is the output, and “done” is an iteration—not a finish line.
  • Ability to work as a team-of-one designer: self-directed, organized, and proactive about aligning stakeholders.
  • Most important: you have a clear pattern of using AI tools to accelerate design—exploration, iteration, prototyping, critique, synthesis, or communication—and you can speak specifically about how you use them to ship better work faster.
Benefits
  • Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
UI designprototypinginteraction designusability testingMVP patternsaccessibilityinformation architecturedata visualizationdesign iterationuser experience design
Soft Skills
self-directedorganizedproactivecommunicationproduct thinkingadaptabilitycollaborationproblem-solvingcritical thinkingbias for action