Founding Recruiter

We’re building AI to help a billion people with their mental health. Our goal is to build an AI therapist to help people change their mind and their lives in the ways that they want to.

Success to us means every human being in need of support having somewhere to go. We're a well-funded, Series A-stage startup backed by top-tier tech investors Andressen Horowitz, Menlo, Felicis, and many mission oriented athletes & celebrities. Our investors have also been involved in category defining companies like Huggingface, ElevenLabs, Replit, Captions, Shopify, Plaid, Notion, Canva, Twitch, Airtable, and others.

We're building a powerful team by empowering our team 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.

As a member of our rapidly growing team, you’ll play a central role in shaping the future of mental health through AI. We’re seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to join us in building a world-class product, engineering, and machine learning team. You’ll work directly with our founders, Daniel Reid Cahn and Neil Parikh, to scale Slingshot from the inside out.

This is a rare opportunity to join a deeply mission-driven company and play a foundational role in its growth. You’ll own our end-to-end recruiting efforts, from sourcing to closing, while shaping the systems, processes, and culture of hiring at Slingshot. 

You won’t just fill roles — you’ll help us find the people who make the company.

• Partner directly with the founders and hiring managers to deeply understand hiring needs across engineering and ML

• Own the full-cycle recruiting process for all our hires (ML, back-end, and full-stack engineers alongside non-technical roles as necessary): sourcing, screening, coordinating interviews, extending offers, and closing candidates

• Build and maintain a steady pipeline of top-tier talent through our investor network, sourcing strategies, passive outreach, referrals, and community engagement. You’ll set up sequences to prospect candidates, make lists of people the founders should reach out to directly, and think about how to get to the very best people in the world.

• Be the point of contact for all candidates, ensuring a thoughtful, responsive, and values-aligned candidate experience. You’ll set the standard for excellence in our recruiting process, including getting feedback and helping us make decisions quickly.

• Set up and continuously improve recruiting operations — from interview loops and scorecards to tooling and data tracking

• Represent Slingshot to the external world: telling our story, pitching our vision, and building relationships with talent across NYC, London, and globally

• Support employer branding efforts across social, events, partnerships, and our careers page

• Identify and close process gaps before they become bottlenecks — you’ll help us scale hiring smartly and fast
  

• You care deeply about Slingshot’s mission and want to be part of a company solving big human problems with cutting-edge AI. You’re obsessed with finding the right people, not just any people, to build a world-class mission-driven team.

• You’ve recruited for technical roles before and have a sharp eye for what makes a great builder.

• You go beyond Linkedin, for example reading papers, scanning github, and shamelessly asking for referrals from our team and our network.

• You’re a proactive builder — of pipelines, relationships, and systems — and don’t wait for permission to make things better

• You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and know how to bring structure without red tape

• You’re a strong communicator and a great storyteller — someone who can get top candidates excited about joining a mission-driven company

• You love working with founders and want a front-row seat in shaping how a company grows
  

• 3–5 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally with a mix of in-house and agency work

• Experience recruiting software engineers and machine learning practitioners

• Strong sourcing ability and comfort reaching out cold to passive candidates

• You must be willing to work 5 days a week in our office in Soho (NYC) or London

• Proficiency with modern recruiting tools (LinkedIn, Ashby, Gem, etc.)
  

• Bias Towards Action

• Collaboration

• Authenticity

• Founders’ Mindset — You’re not just filling roles, you’re building the company.

This is more than just a recruiting role — it’s a chance to lay the foundation of our technical team, define how we hire, and make a lasting impact on the company and the field of mental health.

If you’re excited to find, pitch, and close the people who will define the next era of mental health care — we want to meet you.