About the role
Responsible for sourcing, developing, and scaling a new business line that can have a substantial impact on Toast’s long-term growth
Collaborate with a product lead to perform market research and competitive analysis.
Become the technology owner of your product, taking responsibility for the architecture, technical design, and development.
Recruit highly talented intrapreneurs to the New Ventures program and mentor them to build new products and businesses.
Define OKRs with the team while tracking progress against them regularly, and communicate plans and progress to cross-functional partners.
Work with the leadership to make decisions on funding, scaling, shutting down, and spinning off New Ventures initiatives
Accountability for entire technology effort and leadership of a New Ventures product line
Stay abreast of emerging technologies and their ability to impact the success of executing on your product line.
Manage, measure and report on the required effort, quality, and scope to develop New Ventures projects to the appropriate stakeholders
Over time, build, lead, inspire and engage a high-performing entrepreneurial team focused on driving results
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in senior leadership roles
- Proven track record of building and scaling platform or infrastructure teams
- Strong ability to hire, develop, and lead high-performing teams
- Experience operating in high-growth or early-stage environments, with a track record of solving complex, large-scale problems under ambiguity
- Experience building or leveraging developer productivity and delivery platforms (e.g., CI/CD, feature management, experimentation frameworks such as Harness)
- Understanding of how software development is evolving toward greater automation, faster iteration cycles, and programmatic control of delivery workflows
- Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Strong understanding of modern architectural patterns (e.g., service-oriented, event-driven, cloud-native)
- Ability to design extensible systems and reusable abstractions, not just end-user features
- A hands-on mentality and willingness to remove obstacles for team members, while also creating connective tissue with centralized functions
- Track record of proven leadership and accountability, meeting or exceeding objectives, while taking products from inception to launch
- Ability to estimate and deliver on the product vision and roadmap with confidence in feasibility, time, cost and impact
- Strong attention to detail with ability to manage expectations at both an Executive and cross-functional level
- Exceptional people skills and demonstrated experience building rapport and driving consensus
- Successful past growing and fostering an inclusive culture of high-performing teams