AI Safety Manager
Slingshot AI· Product
LondonFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Lead the development and implementation of trust and safety policies and systems for Slingshot AI's Ash platform, working with psychologists, researchers, and ML engineers to address safety, privacy, and user autonomy in a sensitive domain.
Responsibilities
- Develop our principles and policies. Work through questions where safety, privacy, user autonomy, and product usefulness pull in different directions. Research the problem, seek expert input, and make a reasoned recommendation. You’ll work with our team, our advisors and experts and others to build principles for how to handle decisions.
- Turn ambiguous issues into clear decisions. Investigate user reports, emerging risks, and new requirements. Establish what we know, what remains uncertain, and what we should do next.
- Make the response work in practice. Build clear processes for triage, investigation, escalation, and follow-through. Define who does what, create the tools and documentation they need, and handle the operational details yourself.
- Turn learning into product improvements. Work with engineering, machine learning, clinical, and legal colleagues to translate findings into changes to Ash and the systems around it.
- Build, test, and improve quickly. For new systems, put a useful first version in place, learn from real cases, and refine it. Match the pace and level of review to the consequences of the decision.
- Write clearly, internally and externally. Produce policies, practical guidance, and public explanations of our safety approach. Help communicate our evaluations and findings, including their limitations. You’ll build initiatives or benchmarks we can share with the outside world to help us and the industry at large do better.
- Represent our thinking. Explain and defend our approach with partners, clinicians, and other audiences. Engage seriously with criticism and bring what you learn back into the work.
Qualifications
- Strong judgment and the ability to reason through difficult questions
- Excellent writing and communication skills; ability to turn complex thinking into clear prose
- Proven track record of building or improving a product, process, program, or independent project
- Resourceful and hands-on; willing to investigate cases, coordinate people, create checklists, and follow through
- Ability to seek expertise from clinicians, engineers, lawyers, or researchers and translate input into practical decisions
- Intellectual curiosity and willingness to adapt; able to change approach when evidence challenges assumptions
- Ability to handle sensitive information with care and manage personal mental health; mature handling of topics like abuse, eating disorders, suicide, and death
- Genuine care for people’s mental health and the mission of expanding access to support
- Background from product, operations, consulting, law, policy, psychology, cognitive science, or similar fields; clinical qualifications or prior trust & safety experience are useful but not required
Skills
Required:Policy developmentInvestigation and decision-makingOperational process designCross-functional collaboration
Benefits
- Autonomy, flexibility, and support to do their best work
- Mission-driven team focused on mental health access
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Slingshot AI
Helping people change their minds and lives in the ways they want to
Slingshot AI is a mental health research lab building a foundation model for psychology. Our mission is to use AI to make mental health care more accessible, and to help people change their minds and lives the way they want to.
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