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Manager Enablement, Sr. Program Manager
About this role
About Toast 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. Role Overview The Manager Enablement Program Manager is the strategic architect responsible for enabling, scaling, and governing the holistic onboarding, continuous development, and coaching infrastructure for people managers globally across Customer Care and Customer Success (CS).
This senior individual contributor role defines how Toast builds its leadership bench and empowers managers to transform talent into high-performing contributors within a complex operational ecosystem. Serving as a thought leader within the Enablement organization and a trusted partner to Care and CS Directors and Senior Leaders, this role bridges the gap between leadership development and business-critical KPIs. By applying advanced data analytics, adult learning principles, and modern AI tools, you will build a predictable, scalable ecosystem that equips managers to drive consistent team performance across key metrics such as CSAT, and Net Revenue Retention.
This role will guide managers through the governance of high velocity tech changes to policy, procedure, and platforms to ensure high adoption and clear post enablement impact. A Day in the Life (Responsibilities) Strategic Program Management & Governance Design, contract, and scale end-to-end Manager Training & Enablement programs aimed at robust bench building, leadership development, and continuous professional growth.
Partner with Care Operations, CS and CSO leadership to shape the overall manager investment strategy bringing consensus and acquiring buy-in to a shared vision and roadmap. Build and govern standardized coaching playbooks, behavioral rubrics, and coaching certifications to ensure global manager consistency and talent transformation. Establish operational rhythms and governance frameworks that empower managers to effectively leverage insights tools and drive high-impact coaching sessions with AI based manager 1:1 dashboards and transcription analysis.
AI Coaching Modules & Ecosystem Innovation Architect and transition the standard manager training lifecycle into a closed-loop system by designing, piloting, and scaling autonomous AI coaching modules and simulation systems. Integrate AI voice and text-based role-play tools into a manager "practice arena" to simulate high-complexity coaching, performance management, and alignment scenarios to assist managers with the development of their direct reports.