Director of Product Management, Lending

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. The Embedded Finance team is building Toast Finance into the financial operating system for restaurants: a connected suite of products that helps operators understand cash flow, access funding, move money faster, and make better financial decisions from within the same platform they already use to run their business. Today, Toast Finance includes products such as Toast Capital, Toast Checking, and Instant Deposit. Looking ahead, we believe the next generation of restaurant finance will become increasingly proactive, data-driven, and AI-enabled, helping operators move from reacting to financial pressure toward managing their business with more confidence and resilience. We are looking for a Director of Product Management to lead Toast’s Lending efforts as part of our Embedded Finance team. You will be responsible for scaling Toast Capital, a fast-growing product that helps restaurant owners access funding to start, run, and grow their businesses, while also identifying and building the next S-curves of lending growth across the Toast ecosystem. This role will own a portfolio of lending and funding opportunities, including working capital, hardware financing, faster access to funds, upmarket and multi-location lending needs, employee-adjacent financial services, and other embedded funding instruments that meet restaurants at critical moments in their financial journey. You will also be responsible for developing an AI-native platform that supports multiple products across the full lending lifecycle: eligibility, underwriting, pricing, servicing, portfolio monitoring and collections. You will partner closely with Data Science, Credit Risk, Capital Markets, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and external financial partners to build lending systems that are intelligent, explainable, compliant, resilient, and designed to scale responsibly. This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role at the intersection of product strategy, financial services, risk, capital markets, data sc ience, AI, operations, legal and compliance, and go-to-market. You will lead a portfolio of established and emerging lending products, develop and coach product talent, and partner across Toast to create financial products that are simple, trusted, compliant, and deeply embedded in restaurant workflows. A day in the life