Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. Toast is looking for a Senior Talent Partner to drive the rapid growth of our Customer Care, G&A and R&D teams across India, Taiwan and other regions, while partnering closely with cross-functional Talent Acquisition teams to develop diverse, high-quality talent pools at scale. You thrive as a hands-on recruiter while also excelling at identifying and resolving operational challenges.

Location: Chennai, India

Work Model: Hybrid In Office

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

• Work directly with hiring managers across teams G&A, Care and R&D to ensure we build talent pipelines to fit our functional needs, our mission, and our culture.
• Source, interview, present and close a diverse slate of candidates for Care, G&A  and Software Engineering roles while keeping candidate quality and diversity top of mind. 
• Collaborate with partners across the People and Places Team (People Success Partners, Compensation, TA Ops, Sourcing) and outside of our broader team (Finance) to drive business results. 
• Collaborate on creating and implementing recruiting strategies that will impact the long-range growth of the company.
• Accountable to maintain data and reporting , timely updates to the stakeholders

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• 6-10 years of relevant experience, minimum Bachelor’s degree required.
• Deep prior experience hiring top talent in a growing environment 
• Experience in building market insights for G&A, R&D and Customer Care roles.
• Demonstrable success in sourcing and full life cycle recruiting for technical roles
• Experience sourcing, and closing candidates in a competitive market
• Ability to work in a sometimes ambiguous, growing company environment 
• Experience in gathering market intelligence and insights for variety of roles 
• Experience in managing reports and trackers, measure key performance metrics
• Strong communication skills in all directions (internally, externally, cross-functionally)
• Strong commitment to creating and facilitating an excellent candidate experience, and leading with an equitable and inclusive mindset

AI at Toast 

At Toast 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 Spread* of Total Rewards

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 .

*We love a great bread/food pun

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: .

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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 .

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