Join Salient's Founder's Office to drive strategic initiatives and support the CEO in a fast-paced AI-driven financial services environment.
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Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
Salient builds AI agents for regulated financial services, automating various processes.
Requirements
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the Founder's Office at Salient, the role focuses on executing strategic initiatives that drive operational efficiency and cross-functional collaboration. Candidates should be adept in project management and possess strong analytical skills, with a background in startup operations, consulting, or regulated industries being advantageous. This position suits high-agency individuals who thrive in fast-paced environments and can navigate ambiguity to deliver clear outcomes. Salient's emphasis on AI in financial services adds a unique layer of complexity and opportunity to the work.
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Quick facts
From the original posting
We are:
Backed by a16z and Y Combinator, with $75M raised in Series A funding
Actively expanding into new financial services segments
Building together in person in San Francisco
You'll sit in the Founder's Office and act as force-multiplier to the CEO and leadership team. This is not a "coordination" role—this is an execution role. You'll take ambiguous, cross-functional problems (GTM, product ops, compliance ops, customer delivery, internal cadence) and drive them to crisp plans, clear owners, and shipped outcomes.
If you're the kind of person who can go from "figure out what's broken" → "write the plan" → "align stakeholders" → "project-manage to completion" without needing permission every step, you'll thrive here.
CEO / Founder Enablement
Own the CEO's operating cadence: weekly priorities, OKR/KR tracking, meeting hygiene, decision logs, follow-ups.
Turn leadership conversations into action: write crisp memos, capture decisions, assign owners, drive closure.
Prepare internal/external meetings: briefs, stakeholder maps, agendas, talking points, and post-meeting execution.
Strategic & Cross-Functional Execution
Run special projects across Product, Eng, Compliance, Sales, and Customer Success (often simultaneously).
Build lightweight systems: dashboards, templates, playbooks, and operating routines that scale.
Drive "0→1" initiatives: new customer onboarding plans, pilot definitions, KPI frameworks, pricing/packaging analysis, process redesign.
GTM / Customer Delivery Ops
Support enterprise deal execution: proposal/SOW hygiene, pricing models, redline coordination, mutual action plans.
Create customer-ready artifacts: exec-friendly updates, ROI/KPI reporting, launch comms, rollout plans.
Own the details on high-stakes timelines: dependencies, risk flags, escalation paths.
Compliance / Quality / Governance (core to our space)
Help operationalize compliance: tracking policy updates, QA workflows, audit-ready documentation, evidence collection.
Maintain discipline around change management: what changed, why, who approved, what's the rollout plan.
Internal Operations
Improve internal throughput: planning rituals, meeting structures, hiring process upgrades, tooling choices.
Partner with Finance/BizOps on budgeting, vendor management, and operational metrics as needed.
What Success Looks Like (First 90 Days)
You've built a reliable founder/leadership operating cadence (priorities, KPIs, decision logs, follow-up system).
2–4 cross-functional projects are moving faster because you're driving alignment and execution.
Leadership is spending less time on coordination and more time on decisions.
Customer launches and deliverables are cleaner: clearer owners, fewer surprises, tighter comms.
High-agency operator: you proactively diagnose problems and drive solutions end-to-end.
Structured thinker: you write clearly, make crisp plans, and turn ambiguity into concrete next steps.
Low ego, high standards: you do what it takes, and you care about quality.
Fast learner: you can ramp quickly in complex, regulated domains.
Trustworthy: you handle sensitive information with discretion.
Comfortable with intensity: early-stage pace, shifting priorities, and high expectations.
2–6 years experience in a demanding environment: startup ops, consulting, banking/fintech ops, product ops, investment/strategy, or founder-led roles.
Prior work with enterprise customers and/or regulated workflows (finance, insurance, healthcare).
Strong writing: memos, project plans, customer updates, specs.
Project management (real execution, not just status updates)
Exceptional written and verbal communication
Analytical ability (Excel/Sheets, basic modeling, KPI design)
Stakeholder management (execs + ICs, internal + external)
Operational rigor (process, documentation, follow-through)
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