Engineering Manager
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Job Summary
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.
Were 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 wed 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.
Were 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
As an Engineering Manager at Slingshot you will lead a product-focused engineering squad responsible for building and evolving Ash. Youll work within a cross-functional product team that includes Product Design and Engineering partnering with our Product Manager Kieran Davies to explore ideas set direction and turn ambiguity into momentum.
Were looking for someone who wants to be a manager is deeply respected by engineers and brings humility to leading a team of experts someone who enables great work rather than dictating it. You will spend your time thinking strategically about what to build next and how to get there while also contributing hands-on to our app prototypes and infrastructure. Youll thrive in this role if you enjoy balancing leadership with building prefer to lead with context over control coding and experimentation over process or documentation and enormously value having a high-performance tight knit team.
As the manager you will support your team by creating clarity encouraging healthy debate and helping engineers adapt quickly to changing priorities. Rather than shielding the team from change youll act as a facilitator treating we were wrong last week as a sign of progress and an opportunity to improve.
About you:
Extroverted facilitator who thrives in a team of engineers helping everyone communicate and collaborate effectively.
Hands-on engineer who enjoys building user-facing systems prototypes and infrastructure prioritising impact over architecture perfection.
Creative and product-minded capable of generating ideas collaboratively to explore new directions.
Humble leader comfortable managing experts giving them trust and holding them to a high bar.
Agile and adaptable enjoys embracing ambiguity and frequent changes in priorities while guiding the team with clarity and focus.
Key responsibilities:
Work closely with our founders every day to understand and shape priorities and ensure strategic transparency and clarity with the engineering team
Lead mentor and support engineers balancing hands-on contribution with people management.
Collaborate with designers and product to define priorities brainstorm and translate product ideas into working user-facing products.
Build a high performance team that keeps our product reliable and scalable without sacrificing rapid iteration.
Lead with context: facilitate team communication clarity and alignment during transitions helping engineers express ideas and make decisions confidently.
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
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
