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title: 'Strategic Finance & Operations at Salient'
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# Strategic Finance & Operations at Salient

- **Company:** Salient
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $150k–$180k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/salient/d19591bc-77b8-4ba0-93cd-513d88508a52

## Job description

## ABOUT US

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.

We are:

- 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 someone for Strategic Finance & Operations to help manage Salient’s day-to-day financial operations and build scalable internal processes as we grow.

You will report to the Head of Business across monthly reporting, invoicing, vendor payments, accounting, cost control, business insurance, and internal operations. This is a strong fit for someone who is analytical, detail-oriented, and excited to take ownership in a fast-moving startup.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Support monthly close, reporting, reconciliations, and financial analysis
- Manage invoicing, accounts receivable, vendor payments, and reimbursements
- Maintain accurate records in QuickBooks and manage day-to-day activity in Ramp
- Track company spend, identify savings opportunities, and support budgeting
- Manage vendor contracts, renewals, subscriptions, and procurement
- Coordinate business insurance, audits, compliance items, and documentation
- Build and improve finance and operations processes using AI and automation
- Partner across teams to keep financial and operational workflows moving

## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- 2 - 6 years of experience in strategic finance, investment banking, private equity, management consulting, finance operations, or a high-growth startup.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field
- Comfortable owning both strategic projects and recurring finance operations, including monthly reporting, invoicing, vendor payments, and reconciliations
- Strong analytical skills and excellent attention to detail
- Comfortable with spreadsheets, financial reporting, and managing recurring deadlines
- Proactive, organized, and able to create structure in ambiguous situations
- High ownership, low ego, and willingness to jump into whatever needs to get done
- Excited to work in person in a fast-paced startup environment
- Experience with QuickBooks, Ramp, invoicing, accounts payable, budgeting, procurement, or startup finance is a plus

At 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. Our team typically works around 60 hours per week, beginning at 8:00 AM, with four days spent collaborating in person at our San Francisco office.

We also offer a benefits package designed to support our full-time employees: medical, dental, and vision coverage, a generous 401(k), and catered lunches.

By applying, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy https://www.trysalient.com/legal/privacy-policy.

## About Salient

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Salient builds AI-native loan servicing agents that automate collections, disputes, and loss mitigation for US consumer lenders.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Funded: $75M total raised)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Mukund Tibrewala (CEO) and Arijit Malik (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Consumer lending / Fintech / AI workflow automation
- **Target customers**: B2B – banks, credit unions, auto lenders, and fintechs operating in US consumer lending.
- **Mission**: To lower the cost of credit for every American by building AI that is reliable, auditable, and compliant.

## Products & Services
- **Taylor 2.0**: AI agent for inbound and outbound collections calls with native FDCPA, TCPA, and CFPB compliance. Handles end-to-end conversations, negotiations, and payment promises.
- **Marshall 1.4**: Agent for GAP claim automation and appraisal-clause deadline management.
- **Flyn 1.2**: Agent for dispute and chargeback resolution.
All products are designed with borrower-level memory, cross-channel context, and exam-ready audit trails.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: ~$500M (as of late 2025, per Y Combinator; conflicting reports may exist)
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR): $25M (per Y Combinator, 2025)
  - LinkedIn reports $4.7M annual revenue (likely earlier or GAAP vs ARR difference)
  - Daily active users: agents touch more than 1.5 million Americans every day
- **Total Funding**: $75M across seed and Series A
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (led $60M Series A), Matrix Partners, Y Combinator; selected by JPMorgan Chase for Hall of Innovation
- **Growth Signals**: Team grew 185% YoY to ~46 employees; 8 open roles as of mid-2025; expanded law repository and LMS-level compliance features in 2026 releases.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Compliance-first design**: Built from the ground up inside lender operations to meet CFPB, state-level, and supervisory expectations.
- **Borrower-level memory**: Every interaction updates a persistent profile across promises, hardships, disputes, and escalation history.
- **Embedded origin**: Co-developed with some of the largest US consumer lenders – not a generic AI applied post-hoc.
- **Audit-ready**: Full logging, exam-ready reporting, and rule-level control out of the box.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening product coverage for auto lending and expanding into more consumer lending verticals (credit cards, personal loans).
- Strengthening compliance capabilities with expanded law repositories and LMS-level control.
- Scaling deployments across existing launch partners and acquiring new bank/credit union clients.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Early-stage startup environment with deep domain focus; founded by former Tesla/Goldman Sachs (Mukund) and Airtable/Dropbox (Arijit). Emphasis on building inside the problem.
- **Location**: San Francisco headquarters; roles listed as SF with a hybrid/office presence expected.
- **Team**: ~46 people with heavy engineering/technical composition (46% of workforce). High autonomy and ownership.
- **Perks/Notable**: Backed by top-tier VCs; opportunity to shape AI infrastructure for a highly regulated industry; roles span engineering, product, and operations.

## Sources
1. [trysalient.com](https://www.trysalient.com/)
2. [trysalient.com/company](https://www.trysalient.com/company)
3. [ycombinator.com/companies/salient](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salient)
4. [linkedin.com/company/salientai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/salientai)

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