Chief of Staff to the CTO

Core responsibilities:

• Act as a structured extension of the CTO, executing initiatives and follow-through as delegated, tracking priorities, dependencies, risks, and commitments across the CTO's full scope.
• Support planning and tracking of technology development, pilot operations, and scale-up initiatives, including structuring and monitoring key techno-economic drivers.
• Support the CTO in organizing and tracking regulatory workstreams, including GMO and microbiology authorizations, and assist in coordinating intellectual property strategy inputs.
• Prepare recurring reports, summaries, and briefing materials for the CTO, maintain dashboards or trackers for project status, budgets, and key risks, and support budget tracking and forecasting processes.

This role supports pioneering sustainable metal production through synthetic biology, contributing to carbon-negative nickel production and cleaner lands for agriculture, advancing the energy transition with environmentally friendly methods.

Required skills, experience, qualifications:

• Master's degree required in a scientific, technical, or engineering discipline, ideally combined with business, economics, or management training; PhD in a relevant domain with startup or industry experience a strong plus.
• 5–8 years of experience in deeptech, biotech, industrial technology, consulting, or venture-backed startup environments.
• Demonstrated experience supporting senior technical, scientific, or operational leaders, with exposure to regulatory, operational, or scale-up challenges in complex technical domains.
• Strong ability to structure ambiguous, multidisciplinary problems into clear plans and workstreams, with high-quality analytical, synthesis, and documentation skills, and strong project and execution tracking discipline.

No compensation, perks, or culture highlights mentioned in the posting.

Genomines' mission is to pioneer a new era of sustainable metal production by farming plants that hyperaccumulate metal, using synthetic biology and cutting-edge technology to create carbon-negative nickel production and decontaminate soils for agriculture.