CloudLinux is a global remote-first company delivering Linux infrastructure and security products. The Director of Corporate Development reports to the CFO and leads the company's inorganic growth agenda, including acquisition pipeline management from origination through evaluation and post-close integration, as well as strategic alliances, joint ventures, and major commercial partnerships. The role partners with the CFO on long-term strategy and financing (debt and equity). Key responsibilities include building and maintaining a pipeline of acquisition targets aligned with strategic priorities, cultivating relationships with bankers and brokers, conducting outreach to founders and owners, maintaining disciplined pipeline records, designing and applying a standardized screening and scoring methodology for opportunities, preparing evaluations and financial models, coordinating due diligence across financial, legal, and human dimensions, leading counterparty diligence, supporting deal structuring and negotiation, tracking completed transactions against original theses, building acquisition and integration budgets, incorporating acquisition impacts into forecasts and operating plans, owning post-close integration plans and financial integration, tracking synergies and costs, identifying and structuring strategic alliances, joint ventures, and commercial partnerships, maintaining partnership pipelines, partnering with leadership on 3-to-5-year growth strategy, supporting capital formation activities, and building the corporate development function including hiring and coaching team members.
Requirements include 8+ years of experience in corporate development, investment banking, private equity, or transaction advisory with direct origination experience; experience conducting or coordinating due diligence; ability to build institutional-quality financial models; experience presenting to executive or investment committees; knowledge of software or recurring-revenue business models; exposure to post-merger integration; experience structuring alliances, joint ventures, or commercial agreements; experience with debt or equity financing processes; and contribution to multi-year strategy work.
Soft skills required are composure under pressure, low ego, persistence, sound commercial judgment, attention to detail, effective communication, strong interpersonal skills, discretion, integrity, and accountability.
Additional valued attributes include an MBA, Big Four transaction advisory or software industry experience, experience founding or first hire in finance or corporate development, established network among software-sector bankers or brokers, and experience partnering with FP&A functions.
Benefits include professional development opportunities, fully remote work with flexible hours, paid vacation and holidays, unlimited sick leave, private medical insurance compensation, co-working and gym/sports reimbursement, and rewards for innovative ideas.
About Openbase:
Openbase.ai is an AI gateway that helps developers and businesses access multiple AI models through one API, simplifying model access, routing, and usage management to enable teams to focus on building AI products. The MVP is ready.
The opportunity:
Work directly with the founder to grow Openbase into a business with repeatable customer acquisition, strong retention, and disciplined operations. Own commercial execution including finding first customers, testing acquisition channels, improving onboarding, building partnerships, and organizing people and systems to grow. Aim to reach 10,000 users with clear milestones for activated developers, retained customers, paying accounts, and profitable usage.
What you will own:
1. Go-to-market and customer acquisition:
— Identify strongest initial customer segments (AI startups, independent developers, agencies, software teams).
— Develop positioning and explain why developers should choose Openbase.
— Launch and improve acquisition via X, SEO, AI search engines, developer communities, partnerships, targeted outbound.
— Test paid campaigns with budgets, conversion tracking, criteria for scaling or stopping.
— Build growth roadmap with weekly experiments and monthly acquisition targets.
2. Developer activation and retention:
— Own journey from website visit to signup, first API request, first payment, ongoing usage.
— Collaborate with engineering to remove onboarding friction, improve documentation, quickstarts, integration examples.
— Engage directly with developers to understand usage and retention.
— Establish onboarding communications, customer support, reactivation campaigns.
— Turn successful implementations into case studies and referrals.
3. Sales and partnerships:
— Personally source and close early customers.
— Build qualified pipeline of startups and businesses with recurring AI usage.
— Develop distribution partnerships with developer tools, AI communities, accelerators, complementary platforms.
— Coordinate technical evaluations and customer requirements with engineering.
— Build repeatable sales process as demand grows.
4. Business execution and team management:
— Translate company goals into weekly priorities, accountable owners, delivery dates.
— Recruit and manage freelancers, agencies, future hires across growth, content, developer relations, customer success.
— Own marketing budget allocation and evaluate spending against results.
— Coordinate customer needs with product and engineering priorities.
— Implement workflows and automation to reduce manual work.
5. Metrics and commercial performance:
— Maintain dashboard covering acquisition, activation, retention, paying customers, API usage.
— Track customer acquisition cost, conversion rates, retention by channel.
— Separate customer spending from provider costs and Openbase’s retained revenue and gross profit.
— Monitor promotional credits and infrastructure costs to keep growth economically sound.
— Provide founder with weekly view of results, blockers, decisions needed.
What we are looking for:
— Experience leading growth and commercial execution at early-stage SaaS, API, developer-tools, or AI infrastructure company.
— Evidence of acquiring users from early starting point with specific numbers and personal contribution.
— Understanding of developer audiences and technical product adoption.
— Ability to understand API integration, follow documentation, discuss onboarding with engineers.
— Hands-on ability to run experiments, analyze funnels, conduct customer calls, manage delivery.
— Experience managing budgets and external specialists.
— Strong written English, sound judgment, comfort working directly with founder.
— Experience with usage-based pricing, developer relations, technical SEO, AI model platforms is relevant.
Why join:
— Direct ownership of Openbase’s launch and growth.
— Close collaboration with founder and engineering team.
— Opportunity to build commercial function from earliest stage.
— Scope to take on broader company leadership as business grows.
How to apply:
Send CV or LinkedIn profile with brief answers to questions about past product growth, acquisition channels, approach to first 1,000 activated developers, personal execution vs specialists, location, availability, compensation expectations, and example of growth experiment or operating system built.
Mission of the role
To ensure the accurate, timely, and compliant processing of payroll for multiple UK clients. The UK Payroll Executive will be responsible for managing payroll data, processing payroll transactions, supporting workplace pension auto-enrolment, responding to client queries, and ensuring all payroll activities are completed in line with UK labour laws, HMRC requirements, tax regulations, and agreed client timelines.
The role requires strong attention to detail, client service, ownership, and the ability to manage multiple payrolls and deadlines efficiently while continuously looking for ways to improve workflows through technology, AI, and automation.
Key outcomes In the first 6–12 months
Outcome 1: UK Payroll Knowledge & Process Proficiency
Develop a strong foundational understanding of UK payroll regulations and processes and confidently apply the appropriate rules when preparing and processing client payrolls.
Become fully familiar with Sleek's internal payroll platforms and processes, including HMRC submissions such as RTI, FPS and EPS, workplace pension submissions, and year-end reporting requirements including P60s and P11Ds by the third month.
Outcome 2: Accurate & Compliant Payroll Processing
Process assigned client payrolls accurately and within agreed timelines, ensuring all payroll data is complete and correctly validated before submission.
Ensure 100% compliance with agreed payroll and statutory deadlines, including payroll runs, pension auto-enrolment submissions, and applicable HMRC requirements.
Identify discrepancies or potential issues early, take ownership of resolving them, and maintain high standards of confidentiality and data accuracy.
Outcome 3: Client Service & Responsiveness
Maintain a high level of client satisfaction by providing prompt, accurate, and professional responses to payroll-related queries.
Consistently achieve a CSAT target of at least 97% month-on-month while ensuring that client queries and emails are responded to within the agreed communication SLA, with no non-reply tickets or emails left unresolved at the end of the working day.
Build trusted relationships with clients by providing clear updates, proactively following up on outstanding information, and handling difficult conversations positively when required.
Outcome 4: Team Collaboration & Process Improvement
Work effectively with the UK Payroll team and other internal departments to ensure smooth payroll operations and timely resolution of client or processing issues.
Contribute to improving payroll processes and operational efficiency by identifying opportunities to use AI, automation, payroll technology, and improved workflows to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, and increase turnaround times.
Must-have experience
Minimum 1–2 years of hands-on UK payroll processing experience.
Experience working in a bureau, outsourced payroll environment, or shared services centre is preferred.
Experience managing multiple client payroll accounts is an advantage.
Working knowledge of UK payroll processes, HMRC requirements, tax regulations, and workplace pension processes.
Experience with payroll software such as BrightPay, Xero Payroll, or similar is an advantage.
Strong attention to detail and experience working with sensitive and confidential financial information.
Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet strict deadlines.
Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
Comfortable working with data and payroll-related reporting and metrics.
Practical experience or strong interest in using AI tools, automation, and IT applications to improve daily workflows.
Must-have attributes
Ownership & Accountability: Takes full responsibility for assigned payrolls and client accounts, follows through on tasks without constant supervision, and proactively resolves issues or roadblocks.
Humility: Open to feedback, willing to learn, and comfortable acknowledging knowledge gaps and seeking support when required.
Structured Thinking: Able to organise multiple client payrolls, deadlines, queries, and tasks in a clear and logical manner, while using sound judgement to prioritise competing requirements.
Data Driven & Attention to Detail: Comfortable working with numbers and payroll data, with a strong focus on accuracy. Able to identify discrepancies, missing information, or inconsistencies before they impact payroll processing or clients.
Can Have Tough Conversations in a Positive Way: Able to communicate clearly and professionally when dealing with sensitive payroll issues, missing information, delays, or difficult client situations while maintaining a constructive client relationship.
AI & Tech Savvy: Energetic about adopting new software, AI tools, automation, and technology to make payroll processes more efficient and effective.
The interview process
The successful candidate will participate in the following interview stages. We anticipate the process to last no more than 3 weeks from start to finish.
TA Screen / One-way Video Interview: Shortlisted candidates will be invited to complete a one-way video interview to assess spoken and written communication, relevant UK payroll experience, motivation, and initial background.
Technical Round: A 30-minute interview and practical assessment with the Hiring Team to assess UK payroll knowledge, payroll processing experience, attention to detail, ability to work with payroll data, and understanding of UK payroll processes and deadlines.
Soft Skills Round: A 30-minute chat with a member of the leadership team to evaluate real-world work scenarios against our core behavioural values, including ownership, humility, structured thinking, communication, and ability to handle challenging situations.
Reference Verification: Prior to final offer confirmation, we will conduct one professional reference check with your recent direct manager or supervisor. To keep the process moving smoothly, this step may be initiated during the final interview stages.
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:
Your education
Any criminal history
Any political exposure
Any bankruptcy or adverse credit history
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.
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 remotely. 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. 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.
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Компания — геймдев-студия, специализирующаяся на разработке мобильных мидкор-игр (Action RPG) и масштабных симуляторов жизни (например, OneState).
Офис находится в Алматы, Казахстан. Предоставляется помощь при переезде.
Задачи:
- Building and improving Nitro, the core node software that powers Arbitrum
- Designing and optimising systems responsible for transaction execution, state management, and network performance
- Scaling throughput and improving the performance and efficiency of Arbitrum's core infrastructure
- Solving distributed systems challenges across a large-scale blockchain network
- Enhancing reliability, observability, and security across critical infrastructure
- Developing new capabilities for the Arbitrum stack
Требования:
- Experienced Rust engineer with a track record of building production systems
- Comfortable working across distributed systems, infrastructure, and performance-critical applications
- Motivated by solving complex technical problems at scale
- Able to take ownership of projects from technical design through implementation and operation
- Pragmatic, collaborative, capable of making sound engineering trade-offs
- Interested in runtimes, execution environments, WASM, developer tooling, and/or systems programming
- Security-focused mindset
- Nice to have: experience with WASM, familiarity with blockchain infrastructure or smart contract platforms, open source contributions in the Rust ecosystem
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