# Lead Product Manager, AI Agents at Salient

- Company: Salient
- What the company does: Salient automates collections, servicing, regulatory audit, insurance claims, and dispute resolution for consumer lenders. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.
- Company website: https://www.trysalient.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: SF Headquarters
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-25
- Apply by: 2026-11-09
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/salient/97f492e7-959c-439e-8271-3101ecadd972
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/salient-lead-product-manager-ai-agents/

## About the role

We're hiring the Lead Product Manager for the agent product itself, omni-channel. You will own what the agent can do, how well it does it, and how quickly a new lender can get it live. This is the most important surface at the company, and today it's a set of very capable channels that needs to become one coherent product.

## What they're looking for

- • You've shipped LLM-powered products to real users — not demos. You can reason about prompting, evals, retrieval, tool use, and latency/cost tradeoffs, and you know where models break
- • You own outcomes, not artifacts. You move fast, decide with incomplete information, and are comfortable being the most accountable person in the room
- • You go to the source. You'll listen to hundreds of calls and sit with ops teams because that's where the real workflow lives
- • You're rigorous about measurement. You can tell a model problem from a product problem from a data problem
- • You hold your own with engineers. You can read a trace, debate an architecture decision, and write a spec that doesn't need translating
- • You have instincts for risk. You know how to design a system that's allowed to be wrong sometimes without that being catastrophic

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