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# Senior Director, Platform Experience at Flagship Pioneering, Inc.

- **Company:** Flagship Pioneering, Inc.
- **Location:** Cambridge, MA
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/flagshippioneeringinc/jobs/8924780002?gh_jid=8924780002

## Job description

## About Pioneering Intelligence

Pioneering Intelligence develops AI capabilities for the Flagship Pioneering ecosystem, including novel architectures of generative models, simulation, and AI reasoning systems. We unify and accelerate the AI innovation of Flagship’s integrated model of science, entrepreneurship, and capital.

## The Role

Pioneering Intelligence is building a growing portfolio of tools, apps and agentic systems on shared capabilities in data, models and agents. We are seeking a Senior Director, Platform Experience to turn that portfolio into one platform that scientists trust and adopt. You will set the experience vision and architecture for the platform, define how scientists work with AI agents, and build the design system that teams across PI and the Flagship ecosystem ship with.

You will report to the VP of Platform for Pioneering Intelligence. You will work every day with product managers, engineers, ML researchers, computational biologists and the scientists who use PI’s tools, and you will be design’s voice to PI leadership.

This is a hands-on role. You will personally design and ship the scientific workflows that define the platform, from research and early concepts through coded prototypes, production UI and QA. You will also shape how design works inside an AI-driven development lifecycle, choosing and evolving the AI-assisted tools that connect design intent with working software.

## Key Responsibilities

- Set the experience vision and architecture for PI’s platform
- Define how scientists work with AI agents
- Personally design and ship end-to-end scientific workflows
- Develop a coded design system used across PI and the Flagship ecosystem
- Build design into an AI-driven development lifecycle

Professional Experience and Qualifications

Experiences

- Design leadership for complex platforms. You have 10 or more years in product design, including leading design for complex technical or scientific platforms.
- Unifying fragmented tools. You’ve turned a set of separate tools into one platform experience with a clear structure, and people adopted it.
- Shipping AI products. You’ve shipped agents, LLM-powered workflows or retrieval over proprietary data to production. You designed for trust and explainability, so users could check what the AI did.
- Designing for scientists or other technical experts. You’ve designed for life-sciences R&D, working directly with researchers and scientists. We will also consider experience in another technically complex domain if you can show you get up to speed fast in new areas.
- Building a design system in code. You’ve built a design system and pattern library in code that multiple teams adopted.

## Skills

- Experience architecture. You can design object models, information architecture and navigation that hold together across many products and surfaces.
- Interaction and visual craft. You take work all the way to polished, production-ready UI, not only wireframes.
- Prototyping in code with AI tools. You prototype in code. You’ve put AI-assisted design and development tools to work on a team to connect design intent with working software.
- Research and evidence. You turn interviews, observation and usage data into product and roadmap decisions.
- Executive communication. You explain strategy, trade-offs and resource needs clearly to leadership and get decisions made.

Traits

- Strategy and detail. You set direction and do the pixel-level work in the same week.
- Ownership through release. You stay with your work through implementation and QA, partner closely with engineers, and know where to spend your effort.
- Curiosity about the science. You want to understand how scientists work, and you learn fast from experts.
- Experimental with new tools. You try emerging tools, evaluate them honestly and keep what works.
- Comfort with ambiguity. You keep making progress while the platform and the role take shape.

Why Pioneering Intelligence?

- Define the experience of an AI-native platform at the intersection of AI and life sciences
- Shape how scientists across the Flagship ecosystem work with AI agents
- Work hands-on with visionary scientists, founders and builders across Flagship’s ecosystem
- Competitive compensation and benefits, including equity, commensurate with experience

## About Flagship Pioneering

Flagship Pioneering invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health, sustainability and beyond. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated more than 100 companies. Many of these companies have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at [www.flagshippioneering.com](https://www.flagshippioneering.com/).

At Flagship, we accept impossible missions to enable bigger leaps. Our [core values](https://www.flagshippioneering.com/values) guide us through uncertainty and toward lasting impact.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We recognize that great candidates often bring unique strengths without fulfilling every qualification. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your background and interest in Flagship.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

The salary range for this role is $223,000 - $294,000. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Pioneering Intelligence currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits. Compensation and benefits information is based on Pioneering Intelligence's good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.

Privacy Notice for Applicants: When you apply for a role at Flagship Pioneering or one of its portfolio companies, we collect and use personal information you provide (such as your name, contact details, work history, and application materials) to evaluate your application, communicate with you, and comply with legal obligations. Your application data is processed through Greenhouse, our applicant tracking system, and may also be reviewed using AI-assisted screening tools. We do not sell your personal information. California residents have rights under the CCPA/CPRA including to know, delete, and opt out of the sharing of their personal information. If you are located in the EU or UK, we process your data under GDPR and you have rights to access, rectify, and erase your data. To exercise your rights or for questions, contact privacy@flagshippioneering.com.

## About Flagship Pioneering, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Flagship Pioneering is a life sciences venture creation firm that conceives, creates, and capitalizes breakthrough bioplatform companies in biotechnology, health, and sustainability.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Creation Firm)
- **Headquarters**: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2000
- **Founders**: Noubar Afeyan (Co-Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Biotechnology Research, Life Sciences Venture Creation, Company Incubation
- **Target customers**: B2B / B2G – partners with academic institutions, pharma companies, and investors; also acts as an employer for scientists, entrepreneurs, and corporate builders
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To harness the 21st century's most powerful technological forces for good to deliver a better future for all.”

## Products & Services
Flagship does not sell products directly; its offerings are the companies it creates and the innovation platform it operates.
- **Innovation Platform**: A systematic, institutionalized process to identify “unreasonable” scientific questions, test them rigorously, and spin out independent companies that develop therapeutics, diagnostics, agricultural technologies, and more.
- **Portfolio Companies**: Over 120 companies founded, including Moderna, Generate:Biomedicines, Inari Agriculture, Tessera Therapeutics, Lila Sciences, and others. Each is a separate enterprise with its own products (e.g., mRNA vaccines, gene-editing tools, AI-driven drug discovery).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (privately held)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of approximately $800 million (2025/2026 estimate) and 620 employees (+9.7% YoY growth)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Flagship is itself an investor and partner; key collaborations include AWS (to accelerate drug discovery), Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute, and multiple top-tier biopharma companies. Portfolio company Moderna is a publicly traded giant.
- **Growth Signals**: 78 active job postings (+50% quarterly), recent formation of Terion (digital agriculture infrastructure) and Serif Biomedicines (modified DNA platform), and expanded presence in Europe and Asia.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unique Model**: Combines scientific exploration, company creation, and capital investment under one roof – “a way that is largely without precedent”
- **Deep Talent Pool**: Exceptional network of scientist-entrepreneurs and company builders; top hires from MIT, Harvard, Biogen, Novartis, and Pfizer
- **Track Record**: Over two decades of founding transformational companies (e.g., Moderna’s COVID‑19 vaccine), demonstrating repeatable innovation
- **Process-Driven**: Systematic methodology for turning “what‑if” questions into patentable bioplatforms, reducing risk compared to ad‑hoc startup creation

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding AI/machine learning integration across drug discovery and life sciences (highlighted by AWS collaboration); entering preemptive health and medicine; advancing sustainable agriculture and climate solutions; growing international operations (UK, Singapore, Canada, Switzerland, Japan)
- **Direction for growth**: Launching new platform companies at a steady cadence (e.g., Terion, Serif in 2026); deepening expertise in computational protein design, modified DNA, and gene editing

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Brave and bold organization of creative-thinkers with insurgent mindsets” – emphasis on fearlessness, mentorship, and teamwork across science and business
- **Work Environment**: Headquarters in Cambridge, MA with 5 US offices; roles span research, strategy, finance, and operations; hybrid/remote flexibility varies by role
- **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work on world-changing science (e.g., COVID‑19 vaccine, gene editing) alongside top scientists and company builders; strong compensation (salary range example: Sr. Associate ~$68K, ML Engineer ~$122K; overall comp rating 3.7/5)
- **Engineering/Science Culture**: Heavy investment in R&D (15% of workforce in research), cutting-edge tools (Cryo‑EM, AI/ML), and a process that encourages bold leaps

## Sources
1. [flagshippioneering.com](https://www.flagshippioneering.com/)
2. [flagshippioneering.com/about](https://www.flagshippioneering.com/about)
3. [flagshippioneering.com/join](https://www.flagshippioneering.com/join)
4. [flagshippioneering.com/join/roles](https://www.flagshippioneering.com/join/roles)
5. [linkedin.com/company/flagship-pioneering](https://www.linkedin.com/company/flagship-pioneering)

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