Principal Technical Program Manager

Toast, Inc.

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$181,000–$290,000 / yr
Posted
59 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago
Closes
Dec 8, 2026

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $204k
This role $236k
$139k most similar roles pay here $306k

This role pays more than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $177,250–$229,875 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $236k versus about $204k for comparable roles.

Based on 239 similar postings.

Employer

About Toast, Inc.

Toast is a cloud-based restaurant management platform providing point-of-sale, payment processing, and operations software for the food service industry.

Toast, Inc. currently has 29 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,000–$304,000 across 29 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Principal Technical Program Manager

As a Principal Technical Program Manager, Toast IQ, you will join the team responsible for an agentic platform featuring specialized AI agents designed to assist restaurant operators with labor management, demand generation, and back-office optimization. You will own the end-to-end monthly release engine, establishing durable operating mechanisms to ensure coherent packaging and messaging across multiple lines of business. Your daily responsibilities include setting the bar for platform readiness, managing technical risks and dependencies with engineering teams, and coordinating go-to-market efforts with marketing and support functions. To succeed, you must possess over 12 years of experience in technical program management, demonstrating deep fluency in architecture and risk assessment. You will navigate complex cross-functional dependencies to build a scalable release cadence for the platform while translating intricate program status into clear narratives for senior leadership.

What does a Technical Program Manager earn in Remote?

Median $210285 from 30 postings across 17 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and manage the monthly agent release program across all lines of business.
  • Establish and enforce platform-readiness standards by evaluating architecture, dependencies, and technical risks.
  • Ensure go-to-market consistency by aligning naming, packaging, and messaging into a single platform story.
  • Build reporting systems to track launch health, adoption signals, and upstream blockers for R&D leadership.
  • Create repeatable operating mechanisms and governance structures to align multiple engineering teams toward a shared cadence.
  • Make high-judgment decisions in ambiguous situations and serve as an escalation point for cross-functional issues.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of technical program management experience working directly with software engineering teams.
  • Proven track record of owning cross-functional programs from design through launch across teams with competing priorities.
  • Technical fluency to engage with engineers on architecture, dependencies, and risk identification.
  • Demonstrated ability to build repeatable operating models rather than just running projects within existing systems.
  • Experience managing cross-organization dependencies and aligning teams without direct authority over them.
  • Strong written communication skills to translate complex program status into clear narratives for senior leadership.
  • BA/BS in a technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.

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