Seek — SEEK Asia is a leading online employment marketplace operating in Southeast Asia, connecting job seekers with employers across multiple countries. Established in 1997, SEEK Asia manages prominent job portals such as JobStreet and JobsDB, serving markets including Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Hong Kong. As part of the SEEK Limited family, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, SEEK Asia contributes to SEEK's extensive presence, which spans Australia, New Zealand, and various Asian countries. Collectively, SEEK maintains approximately 40 million candidate relationships and 400,000 hirer relationships across the Asia Pacific region. In 2024, SEEK integrated its APAC employment platforms-SEEK, JobStreet, and JobsDB-into a unified platform powered by AI technology, enhancing the job search and recruitment experience for users.
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Latest signals — Seek
Product Launch · Oceania
SEEK →SEEK reported AI-enabled discovery tools and transformation gaining traction, with upgraded FY2026 outlook and focus on ANZ and Asian market expansion through freemium-led strategy
Adjacent signals across Artificial Intelligence
Product Launch · Asia
Gnani.ai →Gnani.ai launched Prisma v2.5, a speech-to-text model spanning 12 languages with support for Indian dialects, code-switching, and noise handling. Trained on 14M hours of proprietary Indic speech data. Positioned as outperforming global competitors (ElevenLabs, Sarvam AI, Microsoft) on WER/CER metrics with lower latency via local Indian data center hosting.
Geographic Expansion · Asia
Applied Intuition →Applied Intuition expanded its Self-Driving System (SDS) into Japan, bringing its end-to-end autonomy stack to a major global automotive market with rapid adaptation across regions, regulations and real-world driving conditions.
Geographic Expansion · Asia
Applied Materials →Applied Materials investing $500M in Singapore Tampines Campus expansion, doubling advanced cleanroom capacity. Facility already at volume production with AI-focused manufacturing. Part of Singapore 2030 strategic plan; expects to add ~1,000 new local jobs over next few years.
Leadership Change · Asia
Emergent →AI startup Emergent appointed Together Fund cofounder Manav Garg as executive chairman
Strategic Hiring · Asia
India's AI-driven advertising technology sector →Redseer Strategy Consultants report identifies India as emerging hub for AI-driven advertising technology. AI is reshaping advertising ecosystem across programmatic buying, audience targeting, creative production, and attribution. Indian-origin adtech companies repositioning as global product firms rather than service providers, creating opportunity for next-generation AdTech champions.
Strategic Hiring · Asia
ASEAN Financial Services Sector →ASEAN financial institutions are deploying AI 4x faster than they can train governance talent. Regulators (OJK Indonesia, MAS Singapore, BSP Philippines, BNM Malaysia) are mandating AI governance committees and infrastructure, but institutions report severe shortages of professionals who understand both AI systems AND risk/regulatory frameworks. Governance debt is compounding across the region
Our record with Seek
2019 · Director Online Delivery ANZ (executive search)2019 · Chief Technology Officer (CTO) (executive search)2019 · Director Product Engineering (executive search)2017 · CTO Asia (executive search)Nearby in the record
