Hi First name / Toasters,

 

 

Today, we celebrate you—the women who are developing digital products that will have a lasting impact and shape future generations. Let’s raise a Toast 🥂 to the first computer scientists, who paved the way for our successes—women have been coding before men even knew how to turn on a computer.

 

Women are making great strides toward better representation in tech, with 23% of Canadian women-led startups having at least one female founder! 👩🏻‍💻 But it’s not only founders who are killing it:

 

While we celebrate our successes, it’s time to have a serious chat—there's still work to be done. Women of colour are still severely underrepresented in tech, making up only 6.3% of new hires in Canada. And let’s not forget the lack of funding, with only 2% of VC funding going to female-led companies. Come on investors, it’s time to start putting your money where your mouth is! 💵

 

But enough talking—it's time for action! Diverse female talent helps create more inclusive products and services. Toast partners are ready to roll up their sleeves and get to work on their diversity initiatives, prioritizing gender equity, paying women what they deserve, and cultivating an inclusive work environment that fosters growth and innovation.

 

Let’s break down barriers, and get that bread 🍞

We love playing matchmaker, and helping you find roles with companies that feel like they were made for you.💕

 

New roles with Toast partners are posted in real time on our #partner-opportunities Slack channel, and you can also find the full list here.

 

 

Intermediate Backend Software Developer: Extensive experience in Ruby on Rails, with familiarity with (or an appetite to learn) GraphQL, Github Actions, PostreSQL and Heroku.

📍: Remote

💰: $80k-120k

 

Product Manager: Responsible for setting the product direction and managing the product lifecycle. Through research and data analysis you will drive the product vision and be an evangelist for your product area. You are the voice of the customer as you translate market opportunities into business goals.

📍: Remote

💰: TBD

 

Director, Product Management: Overseeing, leading, and managing product teams throughout the product development process. Creating strategic goals, evaluating ideas, and prioritizing features. Designing and communicating product roadmaps and analyzing progress.

📍: Remote

💰: $120k-140k
 

Chief Technology Officer /Technical Co-Founder: Looking for someone who has technical experience taking a product to market and looking to jump into entrepreneurship.

📍: Remote

💰: Flexible

 

 

Intermediate Software Developer: Proficient in at least one programming language, experience on technical projects that involve multiple developers, experience with MySQL or other SQL database systems and experience with Docker. 
📍: Calgary-based, hybrid
💰: $70K - $120K

 

Sales & Business Development Manager:  Comfortable selling to urgent care and walk-in clinics across Canada. Must have a track record of selling SaaS in the health industry.
📍: Remote but willing to travel up to 50% of the time)
💰: $70-$100K + commission.
 

Senior Enterprise Sales Director: Selling to US virtual care clinics. Seeking someone with subject matter expertise in the US healthcare system.
📍: Eastern USA 
💰: $150K + commission.

Toast is thrilled to partner with Tacit Edge, the Canadian-based tech education company that has been making waves in the world of Product Management and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) advocacy. 💕 Founded in 2021 by Christa Hill and Renee Matsalla, these fierce women are on a mission to elevate the number of women and visible minorities graduating into Product Management and related roles with top companies around the world.

 

Tacit Edge offers a combination of online learning, coaching, and group facilitation that can be designed for post-secondary institutions and private companies, empowering individuals with the tools to shift their careers to Product Management roles with a clear line of sight to trusted high-quality places for inclusive, applied-learning and opportunities to break into the field.

 

Tacit Edge is disrupting Product Management as we know it today by combining DEI values that align with Environmental Social Governance (ESG) through all industries. Their courses are designed to be implemented anywhere around the world, with a human and empathetic touch that feels localized and authentic.

 

Whether you're a post-secondary student looking to launch your career, or an industry professional seeking to upskill and diversify your team, Tacit Edge is your secret weapon.

Hi there! My name is Morgan and I’m a public health technology professional based in Toronto with a passion for technology and innovation within the health sector. My journey into tech was not entirely intentional at first—I was working as a children’s therapist in a clinical care setting prior to graduate school and knew that there had to be a better solution to many of the issues I, and families were facing with access to proper services. That’s when I decided to pursue my Master’s degree, where I had a few classes on using technology in Public Health, and I fell in love. It felt like my two biggest passions were colliding. 

 

Since then, I’ve spent the last several years working as a Product Owner for an NGO and then a health tech start-up where I was working on various digital health innovations, which was amazing! But unfortunately, my team was laid off due to company restructuring and so now I am looking for a new team to make an impact with! I am hoping to work with another health tech company as a product owner or product manager where the mission is to better public health outcomes with whatever service/product they are offering. I want to work with great people creating amazing things! 

 

🍞:  Can you give us a piece of advice for anyone who has recently experienced a layoff?

 

Be gentle with yourself—it can be quite a shock and adjustment, especially when it’s unexpected and when you really loved the team and the company. I was really frustrated the first few days. This had never happened to me before and I was very sad to be unwillingly leaving a team that I really loved. But I was also able to take some time to decompress, which was a hidden gift in the whole process. Burnout can take months to fully recover from and I know that the next job I go into, I will be fully present for now that I’ve had a good break. While you’re job hunting, spend extra time with your friends and family, take longer walks with your dog, and try new hobbies that you’d been putting off because you didn’t have the time. Try to balance the job of job hunting with extra time for living life!