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# Chief of Staff, GTM at Slingshot AI

- **Company:** Slingshot AI
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-07-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/slingshotai/73a64845-3574-401c-b5c4-bff35ac18df0

## Job description

Slingshot AI

Slingshot AI is the team behind Ash, the first AI designed for mental health. Our mission is to make support more accessible and help people change their lives in the ways they want.

We’re building a world-class team by empowering individuals with the autonomy, flexibility, and support they need to do their best work. We dream big, iterate fast, and care deeply. If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

Our team spans machine learning, product, engineering, conversational design, clinical, growth, and operations, with offices in both New York City and London.

We're a well-funded Series A company, having raised $93M from Andreessen Horowitz, Radical Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, plus top-tier tech investors involved in ElevenLabs, Captions, Shopify, Plaid, Notion, Canva, Twitch, Airtable, and many others.

## THE ROLE

We are hiring our first commercial Chief of Staff to work closely with leadership and build our B2B GTM motion. Reporting to Neil Parikh, you'll be both strategic partner and hands-on operator, shaping how we build credibility with payers and employers and driving the execution that turns those relationships into signed customers.

As Chief of Staff to Neil, you'll be his strategic partner and force multiplier on the commercial motion, owning it end-to-end. You'll turn a handful of exploratory conversations into a well-managed pipeline across payers, employers, health systems, and government; keep our most important deals alive between conversations; and arm the team with the materials that make a first-of-its-kind purchase feel safe. You'll operate as an extension of the founders in the rooms they can't be in, and build the systems that let the commercial engine run well. Our most important goal is landing our first enterprise customers and building relationships strong enough to compound for years.

## Key responsibilities

- Partner with founders (Neil & Daniel) on commercial strategy: channel prioritization, pricing and packaging, and how we build credibility and demonstrate clinical and economic value to payers and employers.
- Own pipeline and deal management from first meeting through signed contract: scheduling, diligence, security reviews, legal coordination, commitment tracking, and follow-ups that keep deals alive between conversations.
- Mapping organizations at our key accounts to understand all the key stakeholders and working with our advisors to open the right doors
- Stand up our GTM infrastructure: implement a lightweight CRM and the pipeline tracking and reporting that give leadership an accurate view of the funnel.
- Drive B2B marketing and sales enablement: build the decks, one-pagers, case studies, and ROI models that help an enterprise buyer say yes.
- Build top-of-funnel volume: develop target account lists across payers, employers, health systems, and government; conduct deep account research; help book meetings; and manage early-stage relationships.
- Inform strategy with market intelligence: track the competitive landscape, buyer trends, and unmet needs across our channels to sharpen positioning and pricing.
- Translate what we learn from every call: about packaging, pricing, partnership structures, and which channels convert: into sharper materials and a smarter motion, fast.

## About you

- You have 4–6 years of experience and have worked at a startup (even an internship counts). You're early-career and high-slope, and you want a role with room to own outcomes fast.
- You move fluidly between strategy and execution. You can pressure-test a pricing model or channel hypothesis, then turn around and send 30 researched outreach emails. Neither mode feels beneath you or beyond you.
- You have a bias to action. You send the imperfect email today rather than the perfect one in two weeks, and you'd rather learn from a real buyer's reaction than polish in a vacuum.
- You're comfortable with ambiguity. What we sell, how we package it, and which channel converts will all shift repeatedly. You find that energizing, not destabilizing.
- You have genuine conviction about the mission. Buyers can sense whether it's real. So can we.

What we offer:

- A chance to join a passionate tight-knit team working on something to change the world
- Competitive compensation (top of personal market)
- Travel between our NYC / London offices
- Usual startup perks like free lunch and coffee in office + generous learning budget
- We cover your personal therapy

## About Slingshot AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Slingshot AI is an AI research lab building the first foundation model for psychology, powering its consumer product "Ash," an AI designed for mental health support.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Daniel Cahn and Neil Parikh

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Mental Health AI, Wellness and Fitness Services
- Target customers: B2C (individuals seeking mental health support) and B2B (organizations needing AI-assisted crisis text response and AI counseling)
- Mission or purpose statement: "To make mental healthcare more accessible and help people change their lives in the ways they want."

## Products & Services
- **[Ash]**: The first AI designed for mental health. A consumer-facing product that functions as a conversational AI therapist, built on Slingshot’s proprietary foundation model for psychology. It focuses on increasing user autonomy, competence, and relatedness, integrating approaches like CBT, DBT, ACT, gestalt, and psychodynamic therapy.
- **[Foundation Model for Psychology]**: A task-specific generative model trained on large-scale psychological data, designed to respect individual value systems and cultural norms, powering both Ash and B2B use cases like AI-assisted crisis text response.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $136M (across multiple rounds including seed and Series A)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Radical Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, Felicis (led seed round), plus top-tier tech investors involved in ElevenLabs, Captions, Shopify, Plaid, Notion, Canva, Twitch, and Airtable. Also partnered with One Mind Accelerator.
- **Growth Signals**: 25,000+ beta testers (including many therapists); 50,000+ people have tested Ash; 80% headcount growth year-over-year (34 employees currently, up from ~16); offices in both New York City and London; active job postings up 33% year-over-year.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unique foundation model for psychology**: Unlike general-purpose AI assistants, Slingshot’s model is purpose-built for mental health, integrating multiple therapeutic approaches (CBT, DBT, ACT, psychodynamic, gestalt) rather than a single "cure-all."
- **Strong clinical and ethical foundation**: The team includes a Clinical R&D Lead (Dr. Derrick Hull, formerly of Talkspace) and a Head of Safety (Mark Ungless), ensuring the product is built with clinical rigor and safety.
- **Respect for autonomy**: The AI is explicitly designed not to create dependency; it aims to increase the user’s sense of control and connection, differentiating it from other AI assistants.
- **Top-tier investor backing**: Backed by a16z and Radical Ventures, signaling strong confidence in the team and mission.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling access to mental health support globally by continuing to train and improve their foundation model.
- Expanding the user base of Ash (currently free) and proving its efficacy at scale.
- Building a world-class team across ML, product, engineering, conversational design, clinical, growth, and operations in both New York and London.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: "Every action we take helps a real person, in the real world." The company is deeply focused on making a tangible impact on mental health.
- **Culture**: Values include "celebrate divergence and value authenticity," "move fast and embrace the unknown," "treat each other like adults," and "always in search of truth." Emphasis on autonomy, ownership, and fast iteration.
- **Work model**: In-office (employees work from physical offices in NYC or London). Offices are described as collaborative spaces with meals and drinks provided.
- **Perks**: Competitive salary, significant equity, unlimited holiday, L&D budget (courses/books/conferences), therapy coverage, private health insurance, company off-sites, office meals and drinks.
- **Team**: Small but growing fast (34 people, +80% YoY). Team spans multiple countries (US, UK, Canada) and departments (technical, product, design, clinical, operations). High ownership and impact for early employees.

## Sources
1. [slingshotai.com](https://slingshotai.com/)
2. [slingshotai.com/careers](https://slingshotai.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/slingshotai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/slingshotai)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/slingshot-6)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/slingshot-ai)

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