Founding Product Designer
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About Us
At Slingshot, our mission is clear: use AI to make mental healthcare accessible to everyone.
In a world where the demand for mental health support exceeds the supply by 10,000:1, we're committed to bridging this gap. We're developing AI-enabled tools and a conversational app that empowers individuals to receive the mental health help they need, when they need it.
We’re building a talented team and empowering them with the autonomy, resources, and flexibility to create solutions that truly make a difference. If you’re passionate about tackling one of the world’s biggest challenges and want to be part of something impactful, we’d love to hear from you. We are a multidisciplinary team of engineers, content designers, and mental health experts building across the stack from machine learning to interface design.
The Role
We’re looking for a talented Product Designer to help us craft intuitive, engaging experiences that push our product to the next level. You’ll play a crucial role in shaping our user experience – transforming ideas into features that engage and delight users daily. As the first designer, you’ll help shape the product and company strategy. We’ve got a strong foundation, but there is so much opportunity to build a truly world class product, and bring magic into everything that we do.
What you’ll do:
At Slingshot, our mission is clear: use AI to make mental healthcare accessible to everyone.
In a world where the demand for mental health support exceeds the supply by 10,000:1, we're committed to bridging this gap. We're developing AI-enabled tools and a conversational app that empowers individuals to receive the mental health help they need, when they need it.
We’re building a talented team and empowering them with the autonomy, resources, and flexibility to create solutions that truly make a difference. If you’re passionate about tackling one of the world’s biggest challenges and want to be part of something impactful, we’d love to hear from you. We are a multidisciplinary team of engineers, content designers, and mental health experts building across the stack from machine learning to interface design.
The Role
We’re looking for a talented Product Designer to help us craft intuitive, engaging experiences that push our product to the next level. You’ll play a crucial role in shaping our user experience – transforming ideas into features that engage and delight users daily. As the first designer, you’ll help shape the product and company strategy. We’ve got a strong foundation, but there is so much opportunity to build a truly world class product, and bring magic into everything that we do.
What you’ll do:
- Develop and explore design directions quickly, helping us discover the most impactful solutions to focus on.
- Define new feature areas and flows with excellent attention to detail and polish, maintaining a high bar for quality and consistency across the user experience.
- Lead the charge on improving key areas like our conversational UX and app navigation, bringing clarity and delight to the user journey.
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering to turn concepts into polished, high-quality flows.
- Use data and user insights to inform design decisions, translating feedback into real-world improvements.
- Contribute to refining experiences outside of the app – landing pages, emails, and other touch points to ensure a cohesive brand experience.
- You have 5+ years of experience as a product designer, ideally focusing on mobile apps designed for daily use.
- You build prototypes quickly - and show off ideas visually. You play around with new frameworks often, and truly love building things.
- You have a strong portfolio showcasing user-centric design thinking, polished UI craft, and innovative interaction paradigms
- A true generalist, you're skilled in UX, UI, problem-solving, and user research.
- You've thrived in fast-paced environments, whether at an early-stage startup or a scaling company, and you’re excited by the challenge of building from the ground up.
- You love working as part of a cross-functional team, bringing others along for the ride, and know how to balance design ambition with business needs.
- You’re confident in your ideas, but humble in your approach—collaboration is key, and you know how to navigate the give-and-take of product development.
- Ideally, you’re based in NYC and love working together in person.
- We’re a team of missionaries working on an important cause with the potential for profound social impact.
- We are building interfaces that haven’t been done before (conversational UX is new!) - this is an opportunity to build totally new paradigms.
- We’re well capitalized ($40M raised) from a16z and top SV investors
- Huge opportunities for growth but also ownership and autonomy.
- Opportunity to be part of the only qualified team in this space.
- Competitive equity & ownership in the company.
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