Senior Vice President, Research

Senior Vice President, Research

What if you could join an organization that creates, resources, and builds life sciences companies that invent breakthrough technologies in order to transform health care and sustainability? Flagship Labs 101 (FL101) is an early-stage biotechnology company with an ambitious and exciting mission : to leverage an innovative discovery platform to design and develop novel therapeutic modalities that target cell-cell Contact Biology. FL101 is developing a revolutionary approach to this challenge and is recruiting a team of top-tier scientists and leaders to build a powerful, first-in-category platform. This is a unique opportunity to be one of the early employees of a biotech startup that combines an innovative, and disruptive mindset with the resources and know-how of Flagship Pioneering.

FL101 is seeking a talented and highly motivated Senior Vice President, Head of Research, which includes leading bench, computational, and data scientists. The successful candidate will resonate with and recognize the value of the Contact-Seq platform, which is able to reveal cell-to-cell contact at high resolution, for drug discovery and development. The Head of Research will be instrumental in defining and developing FL101's platform capabilities, while shaping proof-of-concept experiments that catalyze biopharma partnerships. This role requires deep scientific and strategic experience where cell-cell contact plays an important role and a vision for how such discoveries can be used by external partners to triage targets and accelerate discovery and development. This role is expected to build a strong scientific foundation for the company that can be communicated outwardly with clarity and enthusiasm to potential investors and BD partners. This leader is a scientifically rigorous problem solver who takes accountability for their own work, the work of their team, and is a gifted motivator and strong communicator.

Key responsibilities :

• Lead and grow a high-performing research group, setting the scientific strategy and vision, and initiating and supervising research activities in alignment with long-term goals.
• Experience in scaling organizations and implementing scalable workflows and processes
• Serve as a trusted, people-first leaderfostering a collaborative, psychologically safe team environment that supports the scientific and personal development of team members.
• Mentor and develop team members, fostering an entrepreneurial culture that emphasizes both individual growth and collective success.
• Leverage personal networks to initiate conversation and stoke interest in FL101 platform and vision. In parallel, develop networks externally and at Flagship to find paths for collaboration, synergies, innovation, and value creation.
• Position platform and lead team to create value and capture value
• Actively contribute to portfolio shapingdevelop, evaluate, and pressure-test value creation hypotheses that connect novel scientific and AI platforms to market opportunities.
• Communicate program goals, progress, and key decisions clearly across audiencesfrom scientists to executivestailoring messaging with clarity and intention. Develop pitch materials and strategic narratives that effectively communicate value proposition.
• Partner closely with scientific teams to translate cutting-edge research into compelling commercial opportunities, ensuring strategic alignment between scientific capabilities and market needs.

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At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.