Strategy & Ops Associate

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

This role is for someone who wants to learn fast, move fast and make an impact early in their career. Slingshot is a small team of senior specialists. Many of us were CTOs, CEOs or founders before we joined, and each person owns an area that a larger company would give to a whole team.

You will join our strategy and ops team and work closely with our Chief of Staff. Your work will be solving operational problems across teams, wherever the business needs help most. One day that might be reaching out to therapists we want to recruit as experts. The next it might be building an automated system to manage our vendor spend. Anything and everything the business needs to succeed is in scope.

Few roles let you see how a whole company runs. You will be close to the decisions on key areas across the business, learn how experienced operators make them, and own pieces of that work yourself from your first weeks.

Our team builds with AI and automation every day. You will learn from them how to use these tools to get more done, for yourself and for the people you support.

What you will do

• Give leverage to a senior team. Work with the Chief of Staff and alongside former CTOs, CEOs and founders on the problems that land on their desks each day. You take a loose ask, work out what is needed and get it done.

• Act quickly to solve ambiguous problems. Take on a problem area in the business, find out what is going wrong, lay out the options and run the fix.

• Own how we interact with external resources. One specific area we are looking for you to own is how we source and manage contractors, agencies, vendors, and other external resources at our disposal.

• Upskill yourself and your systems over time. Learn from our experts in AI and automation to stay on the forefront of how these tools can take work off of your plate.

About you

• You are early in your career and have already done a lot. You have up to three years of experience at an early-stage startup, a top consulting firm or a top investment bank, and you have a consistent track record of going above and beyond.

• You can “drink from the firehose”. You have a track record of learning fast in high-intensity environments.

• You ask the right questions, then move. Given a messy problem, you find out what you need to know and leave the rest.

• You have a bias to action. You will send the emails yourself today if that solves the problem, and you can tell when it is worth building something or buying it in instead.

• You use AI to give yourself leverage. You explore new ways to use AI to make your work faster and better regularly and are excited to learn from experts on this.

• You care about the mission. You want to help make mental health support accessible to more people.

• You are based in London and want to work from our London office in-person.

What we offer

• A chance to learn from a world-class team at a fast paced startup that is at the frontier of its field

• A chance to join a passionate tight knit team working on something to change the world

• Competitive compensation (top of personal market) and meaningful equity

• Travel between our NYC and London offices

• Usual startup perks like free lunch and coffee in office plus a generous learning budget

• We cover your personal therapy