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Our agents automate loan servicing, compliance, collections, recovery, insurance claims, and disputes for banks, captives, and specialty lenders.\nWe are:\nBacked by a16z and Y Combinator, with $75M raised in Series A funding\n\nCash flow positive and profitable, with mid eight figure ARR achieved in under two years\n\nAlready serving more than 20% of the auto lending industry\n\nProcessing millions of real customer calls and transactions every day\n\nFully deployed in production with major financial institutions\n\nActively expanding into new financial services segments\n\nBuilding together in person in San Francisco\n\nWe 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.\nWe 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.\nThis is a hands-on role with broad ownership. You will help determine what we build, take projects from early ideas through launch, and establish the design foundation we need as the product grows.\nWhat you’ll do\nOwn product design from customer research and early concepts through launch and iteration\n\nDesign how customers configure, test, launch, monitor, and improve AI agents\n\nBuild workflows for conversation review, quality assurance, approvals, escalations, and human intervention\n\nImprove how our agents communicate across voice, text, chat, and email\n\nMake agent performance, behavior, and outcomes clear to customers\n\nSimplify complex, data-heavy servicing workflows\n\nWork directly with customers to understand their needs and test new ideas\n\nPartner closely with product and engineering to shape priorities and ship quickly\n\nBuild Salient’s design system and shared product patterns\n\nCreate a consistent experience across our five live agents and future products\n\nUse Figma, rapid prototypes, and AI tools to test ideas quickly\n\nHelp define how the design function grows over time\n\nWhat we’re looking for\n5+ years of product design experience\n\nExperience designing AI-powered products, agents, copilots, or human-in-the-loop systems\n\nExperience designing complex B2B, enterprise, operational, or technical products\n\nA portfolio showing work you personally owned from an ambiguous problem through launch\n\nStrong interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and systems thinking\n\nExperience designing monitoring, analytics, evaluation, or exception-management workflows\n\nExperience working directly with customers and using feedback to shape the product\n\nA track record of influencing product decisions rather than only executing requirements\n\nExperience building or significantly improving a design system\n\nAbility to design complete workflows, including permissions, edge cases, errors, and operational states\n\nAn understanding of how non-deterministic AI behavior affects trust, control, and product design\n\nExperience partnering closely with engineers through implementation\n\nComfort using AI-assisted tools to prototype and explore ideas quickly\n\nStrong communication and product judgment\n\nAbility to work independently and create structure in a fast-moving environment\n\nAt Salient, we’re building at the edge of AI - fast, focused, and with real ownership. Sprints and major launches move quickly, and we look for people who are energized by that pace. 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