Chief Technology Officer

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

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👨‍💼 Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

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RecruitMyMom

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

RecruitMyMom is a specialist talent agency in South Africa focused on empowering women by providing access to skilled job opportunities. With a commitment to diversity and flexibility, the agency connects professional mothers and independent contractors with employers seeking reliable talent for both full-time and part-time positions across various industries. They offer services including background checks, psychometric testing, and access to a wide range of professions, from virtual assistants to fractional executives.

📋 Description

• Source scientists, inventors, patents, research programmes, university spin-outs, and early-stage companies aligned with investment focus. • Build and maintain relationships across universities, research institutes, technology transfer offices, founders, incubators, venture funds, and corporate innovation teams. • Maintain an opportunity pipeline spanning initial screening, diligence, investment decision, and commercial follow-up. • Evaluate scientific evidence, technology differentiation, intellectual property ownership, platform requirements, route to market, scalability, and principal risks. • Coordinate scientific, intellectual property, regulatory, technical, and commercial diligence. • Formulate investment, licensing, partnership, acquisition, incubation, or company formation recommendations. • Establish clear scientific and technology screening criteria and map priority networks for direct outreach. • Introduce standardised initial reviews covering evidence, IP ownership, commercial potential, and risk factors. • Assess commercial potential and recommend whether to invest, licence, partner, or form new ventures.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience sourcing scientific technologies, intellectual property, university spin-outs, or early-stage companies. • Established, credible network across universities, research institutes, technology transfer offices, founders, or investors. • Demonstrated ability to analyse technology and platform requirements to determine investment or business development viability. • Working knowledge of patents, licensing, inventorship, and intellectual property ownership. • Sound commercial judgement with the ability to engage credibly with scientists, founders, investors, and corporate partners. • Sound judgement on confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and ownership of work product. • Cross-border availability to participate in calls across Asian and United States time zones. • Experience in biotech, pharma, life sciences, medtech, diagnostics, deep tech, or another science-led field. • Background in technology transfer, external innovation, venture capital, corporate venturing, or venture building. • Experience supporting university spin-outs and progressing research towards commercial products. • Business growth and development experience distinguishing scalable potential from market-constrained opportunities.

🏖️ Benefits

• Independent contractor engagement offering scheduling autonomy subject to agreed deadlines and deliverables. • Fully remote working arrangement.