Chief Technology Officer

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: - Corporate Secretary: Automating the company incorporation, secretarial, filing, Nominee Director, mailroom and immigration processes via custom online robots and SleekSign. We are the market leaders in Singapore with ~5% market share of all new business incorporations - Accounting & Bookkeeping: Redefining what it means to do Accounting, Bookkeeping, Tax and Payroll thanks to our proprietary SleekBooks ledger, AI tools and exceptional customer service - FinTech payments: Overcoming a key challenge for Entrepreneurs by offering digital banking services to new businesses 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 Singapore. **Requirements**: We are looking for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) that is excited about the below Mission and Outcome. Mission: We’re seeking a strategic and execution-focused Chief Technology Officer to lead the next stage of Sleek’s product and platform evolution. This role blends high-level vision with hands-on leadership, driving innovation across accounting automation, compliance, KYC, and fintech integration. You'll work closely with product, operations, and regulatory teams to deliver scalable, secure, and user-friendly solutions for SMEs across our four markets. With a mandate to build a high-caliber team of AI-first engineers, the CTO will prioritize hiring exceptional talent who deeply understand the problems they’re solving and take pride in crafting elegant, scalable solutions. You will cultivate a culture of clarity, ownership, and technical excellence, where engineers are not just coding features, but actively shaping how technology delivers value. In parallel, you’ll lead our efforts to embed AI meaningfully into our product and operational stack, not as an overlay, but as a foundational layer that reduces manual effort, improves decision-making, and enables new client experiences. Working closely with the Head of Engineering, who drives day-to-day execution, you will focus on setting the technical vision, architecting for the future, and aligning engineering strategy with the business mission. Outcomes: **Technology Strategy & Execution**: - Define and execute the long-term tech vision aligned with Sleek’s goal to become the best AI-powered accounting and corpsec platform. - Own architecture decisions, platform modernization, and technology risk management. - Balance innovation with pragmatic execution and stability. Build and retain an A-player technology leadership team that sets high standards, moves with urgency, and scales with the business. **Cross-Border Platform Leadership**: - Set the strategic direction for platform capabilities across SG, HK, AU, and UK, with an emphasis on jurisdiction-specific compliance, regulatory integration, and market nuances. - Drive consistency and reusability across systems supporting accounting, corpsec, compliance, and business accounts. Ensure localization, modularity, and scalability are designed into platform infrastructure from the outset. **Engineering & Technical Leadership**: - Partner with the Head of Engineering to ensure delivery excellence, code quality, and engineering best practices across all teams. - Provide architectural and technical direction across product verticals - Guide long-term build vs buy decisions, major technical investments, and cross-functional technical alignment. - Own technology procurement and SaaS subscription costs, ensuring tools are cost-effective and aligned to company priorities. - Act as a mentor and thought partner to senior technical leaders, raising the bar for system design and technical rigor. **AI, Automation & Client Self-Service** - Elevate AI adoption across engineering by embedding it into workflows, tooling, and decision-making, to boost productivity, code quality, and innovation. - Drive automation-first strategies across both client-facing and internal workflows, reducing friction and dependency on manual intervention. - Champion AI initiatives in document extraction, categorization, reconciliation, and anomaly detection. - Ensure all tools are designed with auditability, transparenc