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AI Operations Lead, Toast IQ
Toast INC · 🇺🇸 Remote, US · Remote
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 29 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 8 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Toast INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Staff Security Operations Engineer” (Information Security Analysts) in CA: $209k–$209k, median $209k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 29 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 8 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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. About the Role: Toast IQ is our agentic platform for local business: a growing set of specialized AI agents and capabilities designed to take real work off an operator’s plate, from driving demand and managing labor to optimizing the back office. As we expand this portfolio across multiple lines of business, we need to ensure that what we build comes together as a coherent platform, reaches the market effectively, and produces meaningful customer and business impact. The AI Operations Lead will help build and run the operating system that connects AI strategy to execution and market impact. You will help shape how our AI portfolio comes together, is launched, and adopted, building the operating engine that brings this experience to life, and turning customer, market, and technology signals into better product and commercial decisions. This is a highly cross-functional, hands-on leadership role. You will work directly with the VP of Product for Toast IQ, partnering across product, design, engineering, marketing, sales, and support to bring the vision of Toast IQ to life. Success will require strong judgment, exceptional communication, and the ability to personally drive ambiguous work to completion. A day in the life (Responsibilities) • Create visibility across Toast’s broader AI efforts and run portfolio ops. Connect work happening across the agent portfolio and other AI initiatives. Share learnings, identify opportunities to reuse capabilities, and surface key decisions. Maintain visibility into ownership, sequencing, dependencies, key decisions, risks, progress, and enablement. • Build Toast’s AI presence. Partner with product, design, engineering, and marketing to make Toast’s AI products, technical insights, customer outcomes, and talent more visible through launches, customer stories, product and engineering content, and social channels both internally and externally. • Turn high-impact ideas into action . Identify opportunities to accelerate Toast’s AI strategy, develop a strong point of view on what we should do, and have the ownership to run at the best ideas, bringing the right people together and driving the work from concept to tangible outcome • Help shape the AI portfolio strategy. Partner with product and business leaders to define target customers, priority use cases, positioning, packaging, sequencing, and launch plans across Toast’s AI portfolio. • Build an AI-powered engine that gets smarter over time. Use AI to continuously synthesize customer insights, product performance, market shifts, and changes in the underlying technology, turning signals from across the business into actions that improve our products, priorities, and how we bring them to customers. • Turn a fast-moving AI market into an advantage. Stay up on what’s happening in AI and help translate emerging patterns into implications for Toast’s strategy What you'll need to thrive (Requirements) • Fluent with AI products, including how they work and what patterns are leading within B2B and consumer markets. • 5+ years of experience in product operations, business operations, go-to-market strategy, or product marketing, with experience working alongside product and engineering teams. • Demonstrated ownership of complex or emerging products from development through launch, internal enablement, customer adoption, and ongoing market learning. • Exceptional written and verbal communication, including the ability to turn complex information into a clear narrative for customers, go-to-market teams, and senior leaders. • Track record of building repeatable, cr