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Founding Product Manager

About Slingshot

We're a team of machine learning and product engineers training task-specific generative models for psychology. Our mission is to use AI to make mental healthcare more accessible and to help people change their lives in the ways they want. We partner with organizations around the globe and power use cases including AI-assisted crisis text response, while securing best-in-class datasets to power our models.

We're a well-funded, seed-stage startup backed by top-tier tech investors involved in Docker, Shopify, Plaid, Notion, Canva, Opendoor, Twitch, Airtable, and others.

We're building a powerful team by empowering our engineers, PMs and designers with the autonomy, flexibility, and resources to do their best work. We dream big and iterate fast. If that sounds like home, we'd love to hear from you.

The Role

We're excited to be bringing on our first & lead consumer PM for our AI counselor consumer mobile application. As our Lead PM, you will lead the product strategy, roadmap, and execution for our AI counselor consumer mobile application. You'll work day-to-day with the founders on the full product lifecycle for this application and our underlying ML research streams. Note: This is not a management role - you will be getting your hands dirty.

You will own and maintain the product roadmap, ensuring clarity and alignment amongst the team on what needs to get done.
You will orchestrate collaboration across engineering, product and design through team planning, meetings and daily standups to ensure our team is organized and unblocked.
You'll work with a close-knit team that ships very quickly (daily and weekly releases).
You'll collect user feedback in all its forms at least weekly. User research, metrics, experiments, using mock-ups, focus groups, interviews, etc (qualitative and quantitative) to ensure we're defining and executing the right product and feature set.
You'll represent the voice of our end-user, identifying how to improve the app user experience for our users, ranging from improving the product user experience to working with our engineers on our ML models.
You’ll define metrics that matter and help us measure progress. If we woke you up in the middle of the night, you'd know our metrics from the day before.

About You

You’ve shipped technical products zero-to-one, and have a strong design sensibility - you love creating best in class user experiences.
You can ask “why” obsessively to dig into core truths, and push the team to move faster & do better work
You have familiarity with software development practices, not to follow them blindly but to apply them as relevant, e.g. Scrum, Kanban, continuous delivery
You like being a generalist, a team player, want to own what you build, love solving really hard problems, and are driven by building a world-class product
You can paint a vision for where to go, and a plan for iterating our way there
You are an excellent communicator. You can lead meetings, but can also write well in order to share your thoughts asynchronously.
You can ship fast. We work at lightning speed.

Requirements:

You can code. At a minimum, you write Python scripts.
4+ years of product experience
1+ years at an early-stage startup (earlier than Series B)
Based in New York

You’ll work directly alongside our founders, and play a central role in creating a magical consumer product. You’ll work alongside experienced teammates and at an incredibly fast pace to ship, learn, and iterate.

What We Offer

Competitive compensation
In-person environment, highly collaborative, fast-paced culture
Unparalleled growth opportunity - learn faster than you would anywhere else
Work with a passionate team that cares about the future of mental health, especially in a post-AGI world

Our Values