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Founding Product Designer

Salient · SF Headquarters · On-site

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About Salient

Salient automates collections, servicing, regulatory audit, insurance claims, and dispute resolution for consumer lenders. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.

About the role

Own product design from customer research and early concepts through launch and iteration Design how customers configure, test, launch, monitor, and improve AI agents

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of product design experience
  • Experience designing AI-powered products, agents, copilots, or human-in-the-loop systems
  • Experience designing complex B2B, enterprise, operational, or technical products
  • A portfolio showing work you personally owned from an ambiguous problem through launch
  • Strong interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and systems thinking
  • Experience designing monitoring, analytics, evaluation, or exception-management workflows
More about this role

Salient builds AI agents for regulated financial services. Our agents automate loan servicing, compliance, collections, recovery, insurance claims, and disputes for banks, captives, and specialty lenders.

Backed by a16z and Y Combinator, with $75M raised in Series A funding

Cash flow positive and profitable, with mid eight figure ARR achieved in under two years

Already serving more than 20% of the auto lending industry

Processing millions of real customer calls and transactions every day

Fully deployed in production with major financial institutions

Actively expanding into new financial services segments

Building together in person in San Francisco

We are deeply integrated with our customers, own the full technology stack, and move quickly to bring modern AI into regulated industries where precision, reliability, and performance matter.

We are hiring our first product designer to shape the next phase of the product. You will work directly with product, engineering, customers, and leadership to improve how customers build, manage, monitor, and improve our agents.

This is a hands-on role with broad ownership. You will help determine what we build, take projects from early ideas...

Read the full posting on Salient's site ↗

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