Flagship Pioneering is a scientific innovation engine that invents and builds companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps in human health, sustainability, and beyond.
What sets Flagship apart is our ability to advance biotechnology by uniting life science innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that is largely without precedent. Our team of scientists, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and create breakthroughs for the benefit of people and planet.
Many of the companies Flagship has founded 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 named four times to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.
Position Overview
Flagship Pioneering has a new and exciting opportunity for a high-energy, detail-oriented Corporate Paralegal to join its fast-paced, dynamic legal team. This role will report to the Senior Corporate Paralegal and work closely with members of the legal team to support Flagship’s corporate legal function across its growing portfolio of companies.
The Corporate Paralegal will assist with a range of corporate matters, including financings, corporate governance, equity compensation, and general corporate maintenance for Flagship and its cutting-edge, high-growth companies. This includes providing support on a variety of transactions and day-to-day corporate activities across both private and public companies—such as preparing and organizing documentation for financings; supporting equity compensation processes; and maintaining corporate records and governance materials. This role will also have touchpoints in the Finance, Human Resources, Communications and Flagship Labs groups.
Key Responsibilities
Board Governance Support
- Assist in preparation of board and stockholder consents
- Maintain board records, minutes, and governance documentation
- Support recurring board cycles across portfolio companies
- Track and organize signature pages; prepare closing binders
Equity Administration
- Support equity grant processing and updates in Carta or similar platforms
- Assist with coordination across HR and Finance on equity-related matters
- Respond to routine equity-related inquiries
Corporate Maintenance & Entity Management
- Maintain and track corporate records, minute books, and entity documentation
- Support entity formations, dissolutions, and ongoing maintenance
- Track officer and director information across entities
- Assist with international entity management
Process & Infrastructure Support
- Support development of governance processes and templates
- Assist with compliance initiatives and cross-functional projects
- Contribute to building scalable governance infrastructure
- Assist with the design and development of AI agentic support for routine corporate matters
- Provide backup and surge support to other paralegals on the Flagship legal team
Key Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 2–5 years of corporate paralegal experience (law firm and/or in-house)
- Experience with governance, entity management, or equity administration preferred
- Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment with compressed timelines and evolving priorities.
- Strong priority-setting, organizational and communication skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and are highly organized
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced, high-volume environment with competing demands.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Willingness to use and adopt AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, GC AI) to enhance legal workflows, as well as core legal and business platforms (iManage, SharePoint, Carta, Microsoft Office).
Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
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.
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The salary range for this role is $88,000 - $121,000. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Flagship Pioneering currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits. Compensation and benefits information is based on Flagship Pioneering's good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.
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What We Do
Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources, and develops first-in-category life sciences companies to transform human health and sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, the firm has applied a unique, hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in over $30 billion in aggregate value. To date, Flagship is backed by >$3 billion of aggregate capital commitments, of which over $1.5 billion has been deployed toward the founding and growth of its pioneering companies alongside >$10 billion of follow-on investments from other institutions. The current Flagship ecosystem includes Denali Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DNLI), Evelo Biosciences (NASDAQ: EVLO), Moderna Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MRNA), Rubius Therapeutics (NASDAQ: RUBY), Seres Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MCRB), and Syros Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SYRS).
