Fractional Chief Growth Officer

Zynt Bio is seeking a fractional Chief Growth Officer to own commercial strategy across its target markets in applied genomics and bioinformatics. The role spans go-to-market refinement, customer segment prioritisation, and building scalable revenue processes. Day-to-day work involves leading sales initiatives, coordinating with marketing on demand generation and brand positioning, and supporting product launches.

The successful candidate will establish performance metrics, optimise the sales pipeline, and collaborate closely with leadership and technical teams to align growth efforts with product capabilities. The position suits a strategic executive who can combine commercial discipline with genuine fluency in complex scientific or technical offerings, operating part-time with a high degree of autonomy.

• Develop and refine the go-to-market plan, identifying and prioritising customer segments across applied genomics markets.
• Lead sales initiatives and oversee business development activities including partnership creation and channel development.
• Coordinate with marketing to shape positioning, messaging, and demand-generation campaigns.
• Establish KPIs and performance metrics to track and optimise sales pipeline health.
• Collaborate with leadership and technical teams to align growth programmes with product capabilities and customer needs.
• Analyse market data and apply data-driven decision making to improve customer acquisition outcomes.

• Demonstrated track record in sales management and revenue-generation strategy design and execution.
• Proven business development experience including partnerships, channel development, and market expansion.
• Experience scaling early-stage technology or life sciences companies, preferably in genomics, bioinformatics, or cloud-based SaaS.
• Ability to define KPIs, interpret market data, and make analytical decisions to improve pipeline performance.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with comfort working across scientific, technical, and executive teams.
• Prior experience delivering fractional or part-time executive mandates in fast-moving, high-autonomy environments.

Zynt Bio builds cloud-native, containerised computational pipelines for applied genomics, spanning plant genetics, microbial strain engineering, environmental metagenomics, and industrial biomanufacturing. The company treats reproducibility as a core deliverable, engineering production-grade infrastructure with containerised Nextflow and nf-core workflows, version-pinned tools, and auditable provenance from raw reads to final outputs.