Senior Product Lead, New Ventures & AI-Driven Growth

Toast; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Sabbatical after five years

Professional Development Reimbursement

Wellness stipend

401(k) and matching

Medical, Dental, Vision coverage

Mental Health Benefits

Backup childcare

Job summary

Toast is seeking a Product Lead for its New Ventures team to help scale an MVP into a market-fit product. You’ll work closely with a small engineering and design team, spend significant time with customers, and focus on crafting workflows and systems that drive growth.

You’ll own the roadmap, run weekly planning, and define success with data. This senior IC role emphasizes async collaboration, thoughtful tradeoffs, and rapid iteration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, owning a product or major product area.
• Experience taking an early product from MVP to product-market fit and growth.
• Founder or early-startup experience, or time on an internal incubation or new ventures team.
• Experience in pricing and packaging a new product.
• Experience pulling data with SQL or similar tools.
• Experience building AI-powered product experiences.
• Able to prototype in code today.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and roadmap from MVP to scale.
• Own outcome briefs end to end (problem framing through shipping and measuring results).
• Run weekly cycle planning with engineers, design engineer, and team lead.
• Gather insights from customers to guide priorities and scope.
• Weigh tradeoffs with engineers and keep the team moving.
• Set measurable success criteria and adapt based on data.
• Collaborate with sales, marketing, support, and operations on positioning and launches.
• Provide clear updates to engineers and leadership about learnings and next steps.

Skills

Product management

SQL

Data analysis

Customer discovery

Cross-functional leadership

AI product experience

Pricing strategy

Prototype in code

Self-directed

Tools

LLMs

Job description

Toast is seeking a Product Lead for its New Ventures team to help scale an MVP into a market-fit product. You’ll work closely with a small engineering and design team, spend significant time with customers, and focus on crafting workflows and systems that drive growth.

You’ll own the roadmap, run weekly planning, and define success with data. This senior IC role emphasizes async collaboration, thoughtful tradeoffs, and rapid iteration.