Bilingual Mandarin Sales AE at Toast - Remote PST — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
This role is fully remote from a home office, but comes with a hard constraint: you must reside in the Pacific Standard Time (PST) zone. This means the role is not truly location-independent — you are anchored to PST-aligned US states (California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, etc.). This effectively eliminates the nomadic "work from anywhere" lifestyle unless you remain within PST-compatible US locations.
Timezone flexibility is minimal. Sales roles requiring live customer calls, demos, and contract negotiations are inherently synchronous — you need to be available when your Mandarin cuisine restaurant clients are operating, likely during US West Coast business hours. Async work is not a realistic option for this position.
Important: Toast explicitly states it will not sponsor work visas for this role. You must already have US work authorization. This rules out most international digital nomad scenarios.
- Salary context: With Zone C starting at $115,000 and Zone A up to $237,000 OTE, this salary easily covers the cost of living in nomad hubs — but geography is locked to PST US states.
- No travel perks (coworking stipend, meetup budget, equipment allowance) are mentioned explicitly.
- Best fit for: US-authorized bilingual professionals who want a fully remote job but are comfortable staying in the PST zone long-term.
If you're looking for a truly location-flexible remote sales role, look for positions that specify "work from anywhere" or list multiple international time zones as acceptable.
This is a fully remote bilingual Mandarin sales opportunity based out of a personal home office. You must live within a PST time zone.
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 Strategic Cuisines Account Executive, you will help grow Toast's presence within Mandarin cuisine restaurants. Using a consultative sales approach, you will convert inbound demand, generate new opportunities through referrals, and build trusted relationships with restaurateurs. By delivering a high-quality, language-inclusive experience, you will identify each restaurant's needs and recommend how Toast's end-to-end platform helps their business run better. Your role will focus on driving new customer growth through calls, demos, and closing contracts in the customer's preferred language.
A Day in the Life (Responsibilities)
- Following up on marketing qualified leads in the market you support
- Conducting discovery calls & product demonstrations in your customer's preferred language
- Creating and reviewing quotes and contracts in your customer's preferred language
- Ensure our onboarding team and customer are set up for success post-sale
- Understand the competitive landscape in your market (strengths, weaknesses, benefits) to best position Toast
Your Mandarin skills will be used on the job to communicate with Mandarin-speaking customers and prospective customers, while your English language skills will be used primarily for communicating with other employees at Toast. As with most internal business at Toast, the job application and interview process for this role will be conducted primarily in English. Toast will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this role.
What You'll Need to Thrive (Requirements)
Fluency in both oral and written English and Mandarin is required for this role.
- 1+ years of experience in a sourcing or closing sales role, restaurant operations, or a related field and industry
- 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, and flexible
- General technical proficiency with software
What Will Help You Stand Out (Nice to Haves)
- Experience using Salesforce to track sales activities
- Sandler Sales Training
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.
The estimated Total Targeted Cash compensation range for this role is listed below. Total Targeted Cash includes base salary, commission, and bonus (if eligible). This role qualifies for uncapped commissions. The starting salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location. In addition to cash compensation, our total rewards components include benefits and equity (if eligible). Learn more about geographic pay alignment in our Geographic Pay Zone Philosophy.
- Zone A: $148,000 – $237,000 USD
- Zone B: $128,000 – $205,000 USD
- Zone C: $115,000 – $185,000 USD
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. We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success
At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work.
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