Territory Account Executive , Retail - Derby, KS
About the role
After years of building an innovative POS platform for restaurateurs, Toast is expanding its offerings into other food and beverage concepts such as convenience stores, grocery stores, and bottle shops. This role will require a founder’s mindset as we grow Toast’s presence in this new vertical with a new offering: the Toast Retail platform. As a Retail Account Executive, you will be part of a founding team that is transforming the way convenience stores, grocery stores, and bottle shops operate. Using a consultative approach, you will prospect, build relationships, and sign up new accounts. By understanding their unique needs, you will develop a customized solution that helps their business thrive. We need your passion, sales expertise, and entrepreneurial spirit to help us build the Toast brand in an assigned geographic territory.
Responsibilities
- Use a consultative approach to prospect, build relationships, and sign up new convenience stores, grocery stores and bottle shops
- Generate lists of prospective convenience stores, grocery stores, and bottle shops and manage the entire sales cycle from initial call to close
- Conduct demos and develop a solution that best meets the prospect’s needs
- Partner with teams across the business to ensure that expectations set during the sales process are met in delivery
- Leverage Salesforce (our CRM) to manage all sales activities
- Understand the competitive landscape and determine how to best position Toast in the market
Requirements
- An entrepreneurial and feedback-driven mindset
- Strong communication, organizational, and presentation skills with the ability to sell and negotiate at all decision-making levels
- Proven track record of success in meeting and exceeding goals
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and team environment
- Self-motivated, creative, flexible, and willing to navigate ambiguity
- Lives in or in proximity to market and willingness to travel 25% or more
Skills
- Retail operations experience
- Experience with AI tools (Toast provides AI tools across disciplines)
Pay
Total Targeted Cash compensation range: $115,000—$185,000 USD (includes base salary, commission, and bonus if eligible). Role qualifies for uncapped commissions. Starting salary determined by skills, experience, and geographic location. In addition to cash compensation, total rewards include benefits and equity (if eligible).
Benefits
Toast offers competitive compensation and benefits programs designed to attract, retain, and motivate talent. The total rewards package goes beyond earnings to support a healthy lifestyle with flexibility to meet changing needs. Learn more about benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.