Principal Product Manager, Voice AI

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🕒 March 13

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $165k - $264k / year

⏰ Full Time

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✅ Product Manager

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Toast

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2013

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

SaaS • B2B • Hospitality

Toast is a technology company that specializes in providing integrated software and hardware solutions for the restaurant industry. Their offerings include a comprehensive restaurant management platform that features point of sale (POS) systems, payment processing, online ordering, payroll management, and various operational tools designed to streamline restaurant operations. Toast's platform is tailored to meet the needs of diverse restaurant types, including quick service, full service, fast casual, fine dining, cafes, and food trucks. They also provide resources like industry insights and educational materials to support restaurant success.

📋 Description

• Define vision & portfolio strategy. Own the long-term vision and multi-quarter roadmap for in-store voice AI and the platform that enables multiple use cases across FOH/BOH. Balance short-term pilots with long-term platform investments. • Run vendor & technical evaluation. Lead technical evaluation of voice and AI vendors (ASR, NLU, TTS, edge inference, on-device options) and create benchmarking frameworks for accuracy, latency, privacy, and cost. • Lead commercial conversations. Drive vendor commercial discussions (pricing models, licensing, SLAs) and surface negotiation points — partnering with Procurement and Legal who finalize contracts and budget approvals. • Drive zero → one discovery and pilots. Plan and execute discovery, rapid prototyping, and in-restaurant pilots; iterate based on operational feedback and scale successful experiments. • Design a reusable voice platform. Define APIs, integration patterns, data flows, and tooling that make voice capabilities reusable across guest experiences, staff workflows, and integrations with POS, kitchen systems, and telemetry services. • Lead GTM & commercialization. Define pricing, packaging, and go-to-market strategy with Product Marketing, Sales, and Operations; identify commercial models that fit restaurants of different sizes. • Coordinate cross-functional delivery. Align Engineering, Hardware Ops, Reliability, Security, Data, Research, Design, Care/Onboarding, and GTM partners to de-risk delivery and adoption. • Drive operational readiness & reliability. Define operational playbooks, observability, edge/online failover modes, and post-launch monitoring to ensure reliable in-store behavior and low support cost. • Champion field research & validation. Spend time in restaurants to learn operational workflows, validate prototypes, and iterate with real staff and guests. • Mentor & shape product practice. Coach senior PMs and engineers on voice/AI product development, vendor evaluation, and responsible AI practices; contribute to the Product Playbook. • Embrace and advocate for the use of AI tools to accelerate product discovery, streamline execution, and explore new product experiences - helping shape how we build and what we build.

🎯 Requirements

• AI product delivery experience. ~8+ years shipping complex software products with demonstrated ownership of multi-team programs or a major product portfolio, and experience delivering AI-enabled features or products. • AI Model Evaluation. Hands-on experience defining and owning AI model evaluation (examples: WER/CER, intent accuracy, wake-word false accept/reject, latency, completion/task success), building continuous evaluation and model ops processes (drift detection, automated regression tests, A/B testing, rollback/mitigation playbooks), and partnering with ML teams to run experiments and error analysis. • Zero → one experience. Proven track record taking a product from discovery through prototype and pilot to scale. • Vendor evaluation & commercial acumen. Hands-on experience evaluating AI/voice vendors and participating in vendor commercial conversations (note: Procurement/Legal finalize contracts). • Platform mindset. Ability to design reusable APIs and platform capabilities that enable multiple downstream use cases and teams. • Customer & ops empathy. Experience conducting on-site discovery and validating prototypes in operational environments (restaurant or other physical venues). • Cross-team leadership. Exemplary stakeholder management and ability to align senior partners across hardware, engineering, ops, and GTM, especially on high-visibility initiatives. • Communication & influence. Clear, persuasive written and verbal communication; able to synthesize technical tradeoffs and business value for executives and partners.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work hours • Paid time off • Remote work options