Associate Product Designer

Summary

Toast builds a platform that helps businesses adapt, take control, and operate and grow more effectively. The Associate Product Designer will design intuitive payroll and team management experiences, collaborating with designers, product managers, and engineers to help customers manage payroll, labor costs, reports, taxes, deductions, and payments.

Responsibilities

• Onboarding businesses and employees and getting them ready to be paid
• Proactively preparing customers for payroll and helping them identify and resolve issues
• Reviewing shifts, time, and labor costs before payroll is processed
• Helping customers understand payroll reports, taxes, deductions, and payments
• Processing payroll accurately and maintaining compliance on behalf of customers

Skills

• * **Experience (1-2 years)**: Demonstrated ability to deliver designs grounded in a design system, process feedback with ease, push for cleaner, easier-to-use UIs and work well with triad partners and design team members
• * **AI Integration & Judgment**: Experience leveraging AI tools to enhance the product design process. Crucially, the ability to discern valuable AI integration from mere 'hype.'
• * **Core UX/UI Expertise**: Solid understanding of UX principles and best practices for both web and native mobile applications, along with a strong grasp of platform-specific UX and UI patterns
• * **Collaboration & Communication**: Good communication skills coupled with a proactive mindset for sharing work early and often
• * **Design Tool Proficiency**: Proficient in design software (preferably Figma), including maintaining clean files and delivering pixel-perfect final UI designs for handoff (to a developer or an AI prototyping tool)
• * **Adaptability & Feedback**: Able to take feedback constructively and pivot quickly when necessary
• * **User Empathy**: A strong ability to understand and empathize with users, designing digital experiences that delight and create a sense of accomplishment, especially within stressful or monotonous workflows
• * **Design Systems**: Familiarity with corporate design systems, knowing how to apply them appropriately, and possessing the judgment to push beyond them when innovation requires it
• * **Customer Engagement**: Willingness to directly engage with customers to gather feedback and generate ideas for advancing product features
• * Design system experience (including creation and maintenance)
• * Expertise in fast prototyping using tools such as: Figma Make, Magic Patterns, V0, Claude, and Replit
• * Prior experience in a startup environment or on 'zero-to-one' projects

Qualifications

Must Haves

• * **Experience (1-2 years)**: Demonstrated ability to deliver designs grounded in a design system, process feedback with ease, push for cleaner, easier-to-use UIs and work well with triad partners and design team members
• * **AI Integration & Judgment**: Experience leveraging AI tools to enhance the product design process. Crucially, the ability to discern valuable AI integration from mere 'hype.'
• * **Core UX/UI Expertise**: Solid understanding of UX principles and best practices for both web and native mobile applications, along with a strong grasp of platform-specific UX and UI patterns
• * **Collaboration & Communication**: Good communication skills coupled with a proactive mindset for sharing work early and often
• * **Design Tool Proficiency**: Proficient in design software (preferably Figma), including maintaining clean files and delivering pixel-perfect final UI designs for handoff (to a developer or an AI prototyping tool)
• * **Adaptability & Feedback**: Able to take feedback constructively and pivot quickly when necessary
• * **User Empathy**: A strong ability to understand and empathize with users, designing digital experiences that delight and create a sense of accomplishment, especially within stressful or monotonous workflows
• * **Design Systems**: Familiarity with corporate design systems, knowing how to apply them appropriately, and possessing the judgment to push beyond them when innovation requires it
• * **Customer Engagement**: Willingness to directly engage with customers to gather feedback and generate ideas for advancing product features

Nice to Haves

• * Design system experience (including creation and maintenance)
• * Expertise in fast prototyping using tools such as: Figma Make, Magic Patterns, V0, Claude, and Replit
• * Prior experience in a startup environment or on 'zero-to-one' projects

Benefits

• Overtime
• Bonus/commissions if eligible
• Equity
• Benefits
• Flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs
• Remote work in the U.S.
• Hybrid work model
• AI tools provided across disciplines