Senior Director, Product and Platform Security

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.

Toast's platform runs restaurants: the cloud software, the payments, and the hardware on the counter. Keeping it safe is an engineering problem, and we treat it that way. Instead of reviewing what our teams build after the fact, we embed security engineers alongside developers and build paved roads to deliver secure defaults that teams pick up without asking permission.

You'll lead that work as a flagship hire in Toast's new Trust & Security organization — a deliberate shift from a compliance-led, reactive security function toward one that's engineering-led and proactive. Reporting directly to the CISO, you'll be accountable for the security of the product end to end, owning the R&D relationship directly. You'll inherit an existing team of security engineers already doing this work, with plans to grow the team further as scope expands.

This is not a compliance or audit-oriented role, and not a pure individual-contributor architect seat. You'll be leading and growing a team that already has engineering's attention — not selling security to a skeptical organization from scratch. If your instinct is to review and approve rather than to build and embed, this isn't the ri