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# Product Manager at Slingshot AI

- **Company:** Slingshot AI
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/slingshotai/091564fc-9bf3-451c-981d-abb63439a87b

## 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’re hiring a hands-on Product Manager to help bring Ash to more people through our partnerships. Your work will center on three things: integrating Ash into partners’ systems and workflows, meeting the requirements needed to operate, and measuring the outcomes we’re delivering. You’ll spend time with partner organizations to understand deeply how they operate. Then you’ll work with engineering, design, and our clinical team to get Ash into our partners’ users’ hands, learn from how Ash operates in production with these users, and iterate. You’ll work closely with our psych research, product, and engineering team to iterate quickly to help us build a world class product. We want someone who can turn a conversation into a prototype, a prototype into a live experiment, learn from qualitative and quantitative feedback from the experiments, and iterate quickly with it. Your focus will be on B2B partnerships, partnering closely with our consumer product team and directly with our founders. You will have significant influence on our direction and responsibility for execution.

## What you’ll do

- Get close to customers and users. Embed with partner teams at payers, provider groups and other partners, observe their workflows, and understand the problems we can solve for them and their populations with Ash
- Build, test, and iterate quickly. Find the fastest useful way to test an idea, whether that’s a prototype, a manual workflow, or a small product change. Get feedback early and turn it into the next version.
- Own partner integrations. Understand how Ash fits into each partner’s systems and workflows, define what information needs to move between them, and work with engineering to get the experience live.
- Turn compliance requirements into execution. Work with legal, privacy, security, and clinical colleagues to understand what each launch requires. Translate those requirements into product decisions, documentation, and operational processes, and drive them through to completion.
- Own projects through launch and adoption. Define success, align the team, resolve blockers, test the experience yourself, and follow through until people are using it. You will be responsible for everything needed to get operational in new markets.
- Own measurement and outcomes. Agree with partners and our research team on what success means before launch. Define the measures, data collection, and reporting needed to assess adoption, engagement, and health outcomes. Use the findings to improve the product and guide what we do next.
- Bring the right people in early. Work with engineering, design, clinical, research, privacy, and legal colleagues to make good decisions and keep things moving while you have accountability to the end product. This isn’t a project management role, it will involve making real decisions and driving outcomes.

## About you

- You have startup experience. You have roughly 3–5 years of experience in areas like consulting, product, or business operations and you’ve helped build a product from the ground up at a startup. You must have product experience, but don’t have to have been a product manager before.
- You’ve built something from scratch and iterated on it. It could be a product, a business, a side project, a community, or something else entirely. We want to see what you made, how you got it into people’s hands, and how it changed as you learned.
- You move quickly. You’re good at shrinking an idea to something you can test now. You seek feedback, make decisions with incomplete information, and keep improving rather than waiting for perfect certainty.
- You’re comfortable working directly with customers. You listen carefully, build trust, and push back thoughtfully when a request won’t solve the underlying problem.
- You change your mind with data. You can structure a messy problem, work with both qualitative and quantitative data, you can explain what evidence does and doesn’t tell you, and you can change your mind based on what you learn.
- You’re comfortable getting into the details. You don’t need to be an expert in anything specific, but you can learn quickly, ask precise questions, and go deep on topics where the details matter, like compliance and integrations.
- You like doing the work yourself: interviewing users, sketching a flow, building a prototype, analyzing a funnel, or chasing down the detail holding up a launch.
- You use AI tools to build, test, and learn faster.
- You care deeply about people’s mental health and the opportunity in front of us. Making good support available to more people matters to you personally. You bring urgency to the work and care to the experience of the person using it.

This role includes travel between our New York and London offices approximately once every one to two months.

## 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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