Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This District Manager role sits at a classic SaaS growth lever: building repeatable new business in a defined territory while translating a product platform into outcomes for local operators. With Toast serving restaurants and nearby SMBs, the work is grounded in an industry where adoption, workflow change, and multi-stakeholder buying are central, making field execution and solution selling especially relevant to SaaS go to market.
For a SaaS career, the position offers concentrated experience in frontline revenue leadership. Managing hiring, coaching, pipeline discipline, and forecasting inside Salesforce mirrors the operating cadence used across SaaS sales orgs. Just as importantly, partnering with peers to ensure what is sold is delivered builds an understanding of the handoff between sales, onboarding, and customer outcomes, a transferable skill set for moving into regional leadership, enablement, or broader revenue operations roles.
This role best fits a manager who prefers being close to the field rather than leading exclusively from dashboards. It will appeal to someone who enjoys developing reps through structured coaching and who values clear accountability around targets. Professionals looking to deepen their command of territory strategy and team execution in a product-led, service-sensitive SMB segment should find the scope aligned.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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.
As a Sales Manager, you are pivotal to the growth of the Toast brand in your district. You will report into a Regional Vice President and will hire, build, and coach a team of Territory Account Executives who are in the field everyday transforming the way restaurants operate. You’ll work closely with your sales team on how to understand restaurants’ unique needs and develop customized solutions that help their businesses thrive.
This is a field-based opportunity with local travel. You must live local to the Lakewood, NJ area or be willing to relocate.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
- Hire, develop, motivate, and manage a quota-achieving sales team
- Coach your team on how to conduct efficient discovery meetings, live demos, and craft a solution that best meets the prospective customer’s needs
- Spend time enabling and empowering your team through walk-ins, prospecting, trade shows, and local business partnerships to help exceed quotas
- Partner and collaborate with peers and parallel teams across the business to ensure that expectations set during the sales process are met in delivery
- Strategically utilize Salesforce (our CRM) and other technology to drive productivity, report on forecast deal pipelines, and analyze conversion rates
- Accountable for the new business growth across your assigned district
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- 5+ years of sales experience in a sourcing and/or closing role
- 3+ years of leadership experience
- Proven track record of success
- Passionate with the ability to inspire and motivate those around them
- Entrepreneurial, self-motivated, creative, and flexible with the ability to perform well under pressure
What will help you standout (Nice to Haves/Nonessential Skills)
- Management experience building customer-facing, quota-achieving full cycle sales teams
- Experience working in a tech environment
- Experience working in a fast-paced, high growth environment
- Proven track record of creating a winning culture that performs at a high level
AI at Toast
At Toast, one of our company values is that 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 Total Rewards Philosophy
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 https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.
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How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process
Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
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: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.
Apply today!
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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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