Venture Executive - BioMedTech

About Cicada Innovations

Cicada Innovations is Australia's leading deep tech incubator and network. With over 25 years developing ventures focused on the world’s most pressing problems and promising opportunities, Cicada provides the incubators, support services and community networks designed to meet the unique needs of deep tech startups.

Based across NSW and Victoria, we've nurtured 500+ companies delivering innovation for Australia's economic resilience, global competitiveness and quality of life. Our goal is simple: to be the absolute best place for deep tech ventures to thrive, and we're looking for a Venture Executive - BioMedTech to help us achieve this mission.

The role

As the Venture Executive - BioMedTech, you will hold the strategic and operational reins of Cicada's biotech innovation engine across NSW and VIC, serving as the direct executive leader for the General Managers of Jumar Bioincubator (VIC) and our HealthTech Hub in Westmead (NSW), driving collaboration across our life science sites and network.

This is a senior leadership role for someone who has walked the deep tech path, who understands the valleys of death, the regulatory maze, and the art of translating breakthrough science into commercial ventures in health.

What you'll own

• Venture mentorship: Coach early-stage life science founders on regulatory pathways, clinical trial design, reimbursement strategies and IP protection. Be the trusted confidant and truth-teller they need.
• Ecosystem connection: Build high-velocity pathways between our cohort and leading life science investors, industry bodies, and global pharma and medtech partners.
• Design the playbook: Inject your domain expertise directly into Cicada's products, services, and curriculum - raising the bar for the entire life science community we serve.
• Venture velocity: Curate and optimise your venture book, tracking metrics like capital raised, clinical milestones, and market penetration and collaborate actively with peer Venture Executives across the national Cicada ecosystem.

About You

The deep tech founders in Cicada's community are brilliant scientists, engineers and researchers. They don't need generic business templates - they need peers who have scaled the cliffs and survived multiple valleys of death.

To thrive as a Cicada Venture Executive, you will have:

• 10+ years of executive leadership in VC, a deep tech incubator, or a commercial-scale biotech or medtech venture.
• A commercialisation track record navigating the highly regulated lifecycle of medical and biological products.
• You have experience leading distributed teams, keeping senior operators aligned and empowered across geographies.
• A natural systems thinker who actively weaves networks together, bridging capital, industry, research and policy into something greater than the sum of its parts.
• The ability to move fluently between the worlds of research, investment, industry and government, and make each one legible to the others.
• Genuine intellectual curiosity about breakthroughs in science and engineering, and the warmth and generosity to share your failures as freely as your successes.

Why work at Cicada?

At Cicada, you'll help ensure that life-saving science makes it out of the lab and into the clinic. You'll work alongside a high-performing peer executive team, contribute to a 25-year legacy, and play a direct role in shaping Australia's deep tech future. This is where extraordinary people come to do their best work.

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply here: https://wkf.ms/4fqlio2