Director, UCC & Tax Lien CompliancePosted today

The opportunity

At Toast, we are passionate about creating raving fans and delivering an unparalleled customer experience — and that includes assisting our restaurant customers when their business becomes entangled in a creditor dispute. When a lien, levy, or garnishment is filed against a…

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain a state-by-state policy framework.

  • Build the governance backbone for the function: SOPs, decision frameworks, case tracking, and closed-loop quality review, so that policy is applied consistently across the team and holds up to audit and legal scrutiny.

  • Determine the right tools and systems required to manage an effective Liens &: Levies compliance process, work with product and impacted stakeholders to minimize losses to Toast.

  • Own the phased liens and levies compliance transition plan with Toast's: third-party partner, including data-sharing, visibility, and handoff of withholding and remittance responsibilities.

  • Establish and own the escalation path for complex or high-risk cases (e.g.,: competing creditor claims, disputed releases, bankruptcy proceedings, fraudulent or ambiguous documentation), partnering with Risk, Legal, and third-party fintech partners (e.g., payment processors) to reach sound, consistent decisions.

  • Define and track operational KPIs (e.g., resolution time, case volume,: escalation rates) and report progress and risk to cross-functional and executive stakeholders.

What they're looking for

  • Own the day-to-day management and execution of Toast's merchant liens and: levies compliance program, including customer communications, intake, validation, withholding, escalations, complex/unique scenario handling, remittance, and release, serving as the subject matter expert to bring and operate this function in-house.
  • Drive the operational process work required to insource the liens and levies: compliance functions currently managed by a third-party partner, including business requirements, workflow design, and transition sequencing, in partnership with Fintech Product, Engineering, Legal and other cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Build and lead a dedicated liens & levies oversight team within Fintech Risk,: defining roles, workflows, staffing needs, and training as case volume scales.
  • Serve as the organization's subject matter expert on handling liens, levies,: garnishments, and similar legal orders — including UCC filings, judgment liens, tax levies, bankruptcy implications, lien priority, and change-of-ownership/change-of-legal-entity scenarios — and translate that expertise into developing, owning, and maintaining clear, defensible policies, procedures and processes.