AI summary: Establishes and runs AI Centre of Excellence, governing AI adoption across the business, enabling teams, and delivering measurable impact through responsible AI deployment.
Through proprietary software and AI, along with a focus on customer delight, Sleek makes the back-office easy for micro SMEs.
We give Entrepreneurs time back to focus on what they love doing - growing their business and being with customers. With a surging number of Entrepreneurs globally, we are innovating in a highly lucrative space.
We operate 3 business segments:
Sleek launched in 2017 and now has around 15,000 customers across our offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and the UK. We have around 500 staff with an intact startup mindset.
We have recently raised Series B financing off the back of >70% compound annual growth in Revenue over the last 5 years. Sleek has been recognised by The Financial Times, The Straits Times, Forbes and LinkedIn as one of the fastest growing companies in Asia.
Backed by world-class investors, we are on track to be one of the few cash flow positive, tech-enabled unicorns based out of Asia Pacific.
We are looking for a leader to establish and run our AI Centre of Excellence (AI CoE). This role will own the company’s AI governance, enablement, adoption, and value realization. The AI Transformation Lead will define how AI is used across the business, administer approved AI tools, partner with teams to identify and prototype high-value use cases, and ensure AI is deployed responsibly, securely, and effectively. This person will work across business, technology, security, legal, finance, and people teams to turn AI from isolated experiments into scalable business capability.
Mission:
You will own and drive AI adoption across the company by setting strategy, governing usage, enabling teams, and delivering measurable business impact.
Outcomes:
Governance: AI governance, standards, and operating models are established and understood across the business.
Enablement: Employees are trained, supported, and confident in using approved AI tools responsibly.
Delivery: High-value use cases are identified, prioritized, prototyped, and transitioned into scalable business solutions.
Adoption: Usage and adoption of AI tools increase in a measurable and controlled way.
Value: AI spend and outcomes are visible, with clear tracking of ROI, productivity, quality, and risk.
Key responsibilities:
Strategy and leadership
Governance, risk, and policy
AI platform and tool administration
Business partnership and use case delivery
Training and enablement
Adoption, monitoring, and value realization
Cross-functional coordination
You are a pragmatic builder who can combine strategy, governance, and execution. You are comfortable working across technical and non-technical teams, and you know how to turn emerging technology into practical business value. You are equally comfortable setting policy, running training, evaluating vendors, and helping teams prototype new ideas.
Qualifications and experience
Preferred qualifications
Behavioural fit is also important at Sleek, and we will be looking for candidates that have a proven track record of embodying the below attributes in their recent roles:
Ownership: This shows reliability and helps build trust within the team. We move fast and need to know that everyone will see things through to completion and proactively help to get things back on track when challenges arise. Accountability is really important to us.
H umility: There is so much we don’t know. Humility allows for open-mindedness to feedback and a willingness to learn from others. It paves the way for collaboration and creates a positive work environment. It is a key ingredient of self awareness and emotional intelligence.
Structured Thinking: Our business is complex with many layers (many services, many countries, many cultures). Regardless of whether you’re more analytical or creative in nature, being able to show sound judgement is important to us. It ensures solutions are pragmatic and balance the needs of the organisation, team and customers.
Data driven: We are a data rich business with ~15,000 small customers. Each decision we make can impact many more people than we realise - so it’s critical that we use sound data to support our strategies and review the success of our initiatives.
Can have tough conversations in a positive wa y: It’s not a matter of if, but when difficult interpersonal situations arise. Disagreement, conflict and disappointment are a given in a fast moving business where people care about their work. People that proactively have tough conversations with kindness build empathy, trust and great working relationships.
The successful candidate will participate in the below interview stages. We anticipate the process to last no more than 3 weeks from start to finish.
Whether the interviews are held over video call or in person will depend on your location and the role.
Introductory Video Interview and TA Discovery Call
Our initial selection stage begins with an on-demand video interview. Once your video submission has been reviewed by our team, we will reach out to schedule a follow-up discovery call with a member of the Talent Acquisition team
Technical round
A ~60 minute technical interview with one of the Senior members of Technology team.
Behavioural fit assessment
A ~60 minute interview and live case study with our Chief Technology Officer
Offer + reference interviews
We’ll make a non-binding offer verbally or over email, followed by a couple of short phone or video calls with references that you provide to us.
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Requirement for background screening
Please be aware that Sleek is a regulated entity and as such is required to perform different levels of background checks on staff depending on their role.
This may include using external vendors to verify the below:
We will ask for your consent before conducting these checks. Depending on your role at Sleek, an adverse result on one of these checks may prohibit you from passing probation.
By submitting a job application, you confirm that you have read and agree to our Data Privacy Statement for Candidates, found at sleek.com.
Some other great things about working at Sleek…
Humility and kindness: Humility is a core attribute we hire for, which means we have a culture of not taking ourselves too seriously and being able to laugh. Kindness is also incredibly important. We are committed to creating and nurturing a diverse and inclusive environment.
Flexibility: You’ll be able to work from home. If you need to start early or start late to cater to your family or other needs, we don’t mind, so long as you get your work done and proactively communicate. You can also work fully remote from anywhere in the world for 1 month each year
Financial benefits: We pay competitive market salaries and provide staff with generous paid time off and holiday schedules. Additionally, you’ll be able to access our flexi benefits scheme for home office equipment or health and fitness expenditure. Certain staff at Sleek are also eligible for our employee share ownership plan and can share in the upside of our stellar growth trajectory as we work toward listing on a prominent stock exchange in the Asia Pacific region.
Personal growth: You’ll get a lot of responsibility and autonomy at Sleek - we move at a fast pace so you’ll be making decisions, making mistakes and learning. There’s also a range of internal and external facing training programmes we run. We’re also at the forefront of utilising AI in our space and are developing a regional centre of AI excellence. It is our intention that if you leave Sleek, you leave as a more well-rounded person and professional.
Sleek is also a proudly certified B Corp.  Since we started our journey in 2017, we’ve been committed to building Sleek as a force for good. In just over 5 years, we’ve joined a community of industry leaders like Patagonia, Ben & Jerry’s, and P&G who are building an inclusive, equitable, and a regenerative economy.