RecruitMyMom
RecruitMyMom
11 – 50 Employees
ConsultingLogisticsMarketing
RecruitMyMom is a South African talent agency that connects employers with skilled professional mothers and independent contractors. Its flexible recruitment offering covers full-time and part-time roles across areas such as virtual assistance, marketing, logistics, consulting, and fractional executive support. The agency also provides candidate screening services, including background checks and psychometric testing, to help employers find dependable talent while expanding access to work opportunities for women.

Chief Technology Officer, Science-Led Investment (Remote, South Africa)

Lead the sourcing and evaluation of science-led technologies for financial-services investment. Manage diligence and develop recommendations for investment, licensing, partnerships, acquisitions, incubation, or new ventures.

Description

  • Identify scientists, inventors, patents, research programmes, university spin-outs, and early-stage companies that fit the investment focus.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with universities, research institutes, technology transfer offices, founders, incubators, venture funds, and corporate innovation teams.
  • Manage the opportunity pipeline from initial screening through diligence, investment decisions, and commercial follow-up.
  • Assess scientific evidence, technology differentiation, intellectual property ownership, platform requirements, routes to market, scalability, and key risks.
  • Coordinate scientific, intellectual property, regulatory, technical, and commercial diligence.
  • Prepare recommendations covering investment, licensing, partnerships, acquisitions, incubation, and company formation.
  • Define scientific and technology screening criteria and identify priority networks for direct outreach.
  • Implement standardised initial reviews covering evidence, intellectual property ownership, commercial potential, and risk factors.
  • Evaluate commercial potential and advise whether to invest, license, partner, or establish new ventures.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience sourcing scientific technologies, intellectual property, university spin-outs, or early-stage companies.
  • A credible, established network spanning universities, research institutes, technology transfer offices, founders, or investors.
  • Ability to analyse technology and platform requirements and assess investment or business-development viability.
  • Working knowledge of patents, licensing, inventorship, and intellectual property ownership.
  • Commercial judgement and the ability to engage effectively with scientists, founders, investors, and corporate partners.
  • Sound judgement regarding confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and ownership of work product.
  • Availability for cross-border 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 advancing research toward commercial products.
  • Business growth and development experience distinguishing scalable opportunities from those constrained by market conditions.

Benefits

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

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