Senior Director of Product, Payments Acceptance at Toast

Toast, Inc.

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Remote (Boston, MA, US) Posted 1 day ago $278,000–$445,000 / year

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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 45 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $159,000–$254,000 across 43 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR

As Senior Director of Product, Payments Acceptance at Toast, you will lead the strategic direction and execution for the company’s payments acceptance platform, processing over $200B annually. Your responsibilities include setting long-term vision, driving modernization efforts, and ensuring cost optimization while maintaining high reliability. You’ll work closely with engineering teams to deliver a robust payment solution covering card-present and card-not-present transactions, EMV, contactless payments, and tokenization. This role requires deep expertise in payment acquiring, platform leadership at scale, and regulatory fluency, particularly in U.S. regulations like PCI and EMVCo standards. You will also build and mentor a high-performing product team across multiple regions, fostering collaboration with cross-functional teams including engineering, design, legal, and compliance to shape the future of agentic commerce.

Skills

Payments PCI EMVCo Card_brand_rules Platform_architecture Cost_optimization Product_management Engineering_partnerships Regulatory_fluency Executive_communication Agentic_commerce Technical_fluency MBA

What you'll do

Define long-term vision and platform architecture for Toast's payment acceptance capabilities.
Lead multi-year roadmap for core payments platform, focusing on cost optimization and reliability.
Translate strategy into clear priorities and measurable outcomes for cross-disciplinary teams.
Drive innovation in agentic commerce by enabling autonomous agent-initiated payments.
Build and mentor a high-performing product team across multiple geographic locations.

What we're looking for

15+ years of product management experience in payment acquiring and processing.
Deep expertise in card-present and card-not-present acceptance technologies.
Proven ability to define and execute platform strategy at scale.
Demonstrated success in building and mentoring high-performing product teams.
Strong understanding of U.S. payments regulations and network requirements.
Exceptional cross-functional influence and stakeholder management skills.

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