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

Ash is going from 0 to 1, and the shape of our growth is still being written. We don't yet know which mix of channels will build this category: word of mouth, paid, social, experiential, partnerships, clinical referrals. Your job is to figure that out.

This is a growth role at its core. You'll develop hypotheses about where demand comes from, design fast experiments to test them, read the data honestly, and double down on what works. One month that might mean standing up a paid acquisition channel. The next, it might mean building a referral loop, fixing onboarding conversion, or turning clinicians into a growth channel no one else has cracked.

A note on how we work: we love doing the work ourselves, so we can get good at it. You'll be hands-on across everything, building the campaign, setting up the experiment, instrumenting the funnel, pulling the numbers. A true jill (or jack) of all trades. You'll partner closely with our marketing team, our Head of Marketing, and our founders. You won't have a big team or a big playbook. We value moving quickly, learning fast, and out-of-the-box thinking. The right person comes up with ideas today and tries them today. You can probably use Claude Code to build things, and have true builder energy.

What You'll Do

• Own paid acquisition end-to-end. Rapidly test, optimize and scale new high performing channels within the first 6–12 months. You'll refine our current channels for immediate results while laying the groundwork for sustainable growth.

• Discover and test growth channels. Develop hypotheses about where demand for Ash comes from, design fast experiments across paid, organic, social, experiential, referral, and partnership channels, and use analytics to decide what deserves more investment.

• Own the funnel. Understand how users discover, try, activate, and stick with Ash. Identify where acquisition, onboarding, lifecycle, and monetization can improve, then ship the fixes and measure the lift.

• Turn product launches into growth engines. Build repeatable launch frameworks, capture what works, and partner across the team to drive cross-sell, upsell, and retention with each new release.

• Build the learning machine. Create the measurement and feedback loops that let us know what's working within weeks, not quarters, so the whole company learns faster.

• Turn insight into action. Talk to users, review research, and analyze behavior. Translate what you learn into experiments, funnel improvements, and product recommendations.

• Invent new demand. Some of our best channels don't exist yet. Doctors and therapists could become advocates. Communities could become distribution. You'll find the unconventional paths and make them real.

What We're Looking For

• 3 to 5 years in growth, performance, or lifecycle marketing, ideally including an early-stage startup where you did everything with limited resources

• A track record of finding a channel, proving it with data, and scaling it

• Builder, not delegator: you've done the work yourself rather than managing agencies, and you prefer it that way

• Strong analytical instincts: you read a funnel cold and know which metric actually matters

• Experimentation discipline: you design clean tests, read results honestly, and kill what isn't working

• Scrappy and self-directed: you run with ambiguity and ship with incomplete information

• Brand-aware: you keep your growth work consistent with how Ash shows up in the world

• Consumer experience strongly preferred (consumer app, CPG, or consumer health); exceptional B2B marketers with consumer instincts considered

• Excited to build in mental health, with the judgment and care the category demands

Why This Role

You'll define the growth playbook for a category that doesn't have one yet, with the resources of a well-funded company and the blank canvas of a true 0 to 1. The channels you find and scale will determine how many people get access to mental health support.

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