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Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. As a Principal People Success Partner (more commonly referred to as "HR Business Partner"), you'll be at the intersection of business strategy and talent execution. Reporting to the Director of People Success (GTM), this role will primarily focus on the core Sales organization while connecting the dots across Sales, Marketing, Enterprise, and Onboarding.
This role will operate as a senior-level individual contributor navigating a high-growth, matrixed environment. Acting as an enterprise connector, this role will drive cross-functional talent strategies across Sales and Marketing while influencing senior leaders to align talent priorities with broader business goals. Additionally, this role will lead complex organizational health strategies and act as a systemic thinker, partnering with other People Success Partners (PSPs) to shape and elevate the overarching talent density of our business units.
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What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
Why Toast?
This is a meaningful opportunity to shape the future of People Technology at Toast during an important phase of growth and transformation. You will inherit a talented team and a critical platform ecosystem, with the opportunity to bring clarity, structure, innovation, and scale to how Toast supports employees, managers, candidates, and People teams.
In this role, you will lead a mission-critical function, build a strategic roadmap, reduce tech debt, simplify systems experiences, strengthen vendor partnerships, and help Toast get the most value from its People Technology investments.
AI at Toast
At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.
Our Total Rewards Philosophy
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.
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The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and benefits. You can learn more about how we align pay with local labor markets in our Geographic Pay Zone Philosophy.
How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process
Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
Our Approach to Hybrid Working
We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success
At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.
We Thrive Together
We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.
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Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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