Chief Technical Officer

Role Overview

Bioscope.ai is seeking a Chief Technology Officer to provide strategic, organizational, and external technical leadership as the company scales. The CTO will focus on scaling engineering teams, representing Bioscope externally, strengthening execution and operational maturity, and ensuring long-term technical and organizational health.
This is a senior leadership role emphasizing leverage, communication, and strategy over hands-on implementation.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Organization & Talent

• Own hiring strategy and execution for engineering and technical roles

• Design and evolve engineering org structure, roles, and career ladders

• Establish performance management, feedback, and promotion frameworks

• Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, clarity, and delivery

• Reduce single points of failure and plan for organizational scale

Execution & Operational Leadership

• Ensure engineering execution scales effectively as the company grows

• Own planning processes, delivery health, and cross-team coordination

• Establish incident response, postmortem, and operational best practices

• Identify and manage technical and organizational risks

• Provide visibility into tradeoffs, capacity, and long-term constraints

Product & Strategy Partnership

• Interface with product leadership on high-level planning and sequencing

• Provide long-range technical strategy (12–36 month horizon)

• Advise on build vs. buy decisions and major technical investments

• Help translate product vision into scalable technical direction

• Maintain alignment across engineering and product leadership on priorities and risks

External Representation & Communication

• Represent Bioscope.ai in external technical contexts:

  • Customer and partner meetings

  • Vendor and infrastructure providers

  • Conferences, panels, and industry events

• Serve as a technical executive voice for investors and advisors

• Support technical diligence for partnerships, enterprise deals, and fundraising

Leadership & Cross-Functional Interface

• Communicate technical realities clearly to non-technical stakeholders

• Help align engineering, product, and business goals at the executive level

Explicit Non-Responsibilities
To ensure clarity and effective execution, the CTO will not be responsible for:

• Day-to-day architecture or design decisions

• Tactical implementation or coding ownership

• Routine code reviews or task-level prioritization

Qualifications

• Prior CTO or senior technical leadership experience at a scaling startup

• Proven success building and leading engineering organizations

• Strong external communication skills with executives, customers, and partners

• Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels

• Comfort delegating technical ownership and empowering senior engineers

• Experience representing technology to investors and boards is a plus

What Success Looks Like

• Engineering teams scale effectively without loss of velocity or quality

• Clear ownership and decision-making across technical leadership

• Bioscope has strong technical credibility with customers, partners, and investors

• Product and engineering remain aligned as the company grows