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.

About The Roll*

• Lead research efforts for Toast hardware products, driving measurable outcomes for the both users and the business
• Work on both new hardware programs and device software experiences
• Work as part of a team of Product Designers, Industrial Designers, and User Researchers to deliver hardware experiences that are intuitive, efficient, and delightful
• Work closely with partners in Design, Product Management, and Engineering across multiple teams at Toast to rapidly learn how best to improve customer experiences
• Serve as the research subject matter expert for hardware research and enable the team with tools and best practices to build continuous learning into the rhythm of all hardware projects
• Use data analysis to help identify opportunities and validate improvements

The right ingredients* (Requirements)

• 5+ years of professional experience conducting applied product research
• Experience working across the entirety of the product lifecycle, from front-end concept development to ongoing experience improvements
• Experience with both qualitative and quantitative methodologies: front-end generative research, evaluative research and testing (remote, in-field, and unmoderated, surveys), and developing insights from data
• Experience leading through complexity and working with cross-functional teams to drive decisions
• Ability to identify the most efficient research methods for rapid and continuous learning
• Strong ability to prioritize tasks, projects, and initiatives with many partner teams
• Strong storytelling skills and the ability to share work to all levels of the organization
• Ability to build research infrastructure, defining processes and best practices
• Experience conducting research for highly complex B2B customer experiences
• Experience with unmoderated testing tools (ex. UserTesting) & survey tools (ex. Qualtrics)
• Ability to deliver clear data visualizations
• Experience with data analysis methods and tools such as Sigma, Splunk, Hex, SQL, R, Python

Special Sauce* (Nonessential Skills/Nice to Haves)

• Enthusiasm about improving experiences for restaurant industry workers
• Professional experience with highly complex hardware and software systems
• Degree in Design, Computer Science, Statistics, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Anthropology, Psychology, or a related field

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: 

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

Our Spread* of Total Rewards

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.

*Bread puns encouraged but not required