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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 fundingCash flow positive and profitable, with mid eight figure ARR achieved in under two yearsAlready serving more than 20% of the auto lending industryProcessing millions of real customer calls and transactions every dayFully deployed in production with major financial institutionsActively expanding into new financial services segmentsBuilding together in person in San FranciscoWe 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.The RoleWe’re hiring a Technical Program Manager to help scale Taylor, our flagship product, as we launch with new customers.You’ll drive execution across product engineering and FDE teams: improving reliability and scalability, managing customer launch plans, and ensuring we deliver on commitments. This is a hands-on role for someone who can operate comfortably in technical conversations and bring structure to fast-moving work.What You’ll OwnPlans for key Taylor initiatives: scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and statusReliability, performance, and scalability work tied to customer launch timelinesIntake, triage, and ownership for customer requests and field fixes across FDE and product engineeringFeature planning, release readiness, and launch checklistsAlignment between customer commitments and engineering deliveryRepeatable customer onboarding and go-live playbooksWhat You BringExperience running complex technical programs across multiple engineering teamsTechnical depth in production systems, such as APIs, distributed systems, or data pipelinesStrong judgment around prioritization, risks, and tradeoffsAbility to align teams with competing priorities without formal authorityComfort moving quickly and making decisions with incomplete informationNice to HaveReliability, performance, or scalability program experienceEnterprise implementation or customer launch experienceExperience with AI agent products or regulated industriesClear, concise written communicationAt Salient, we’re building at the edge of AI - fast, focused, and with real ownership. 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