ABOUT PIONEERING INTELLIGENCE
Pioneering Intelligence builds on Flagship Pioneering’s legacy of founding cutting-edge science and computational ventures, harnessing recent advances in AI, machine learning, and data to accelerate fundamental research and create a portfolio of AI-first companies. As part of Flagship’s integrated model of science, entrepreneurship, and capital, it transforms breakthrough ideas into world-changing companies, elevating the AI advances happening across the ecosystem in human health, sustainability, and beyond.
Position Summary
Flagship's Pioneering Intelligence seeks a VP AI Data Platform to lead the strategy and development of our AI-native data technologies. This platform leverages our unique breadth of portfolio company data in partnership with our AI scientists to return differentiated AI models and tools to the benefit of our portfolio companies. This leader partners with our scientific, technical, business, and legal colleagues to enable new AI capabilities while maintaining strong controls, trust, and compliance.
Key Responsibilities
- Own strategy and continued development of an AI-native data platform for benefits dozens of portfolio companies
- Deliver a product-minded and user-centered roadmap for the data platform
- Lead a high-performing technical team to implement the roadmap
- Build strategic co-development partnerships with external collaborators
- Work with leaders across the portfolio to ensure enthusiastic adoption of data platform tools
- Drives adoption across all wholly-owned portfolio companies
- Work with colleagues in Pioneering Intelligence to enable differentiated and innovative molecular models and agentic systems that leverage the data platform
- Ensures secure, compliant cross-company data governance
Qualifications
- Experience designing and delivering scalable data platforms used in machine learning contexts with sensitive proprietary data
- Experience balancing performance and cost of hardware and software vendor solutions with internal development efforts
- Strong knowledge of user-centered software product development
- Experience working with machine learning teams
- Demonstrated ability to understand concerns, align value, and enable shared outcomes across many stakeholders
- History of leading a high-functioning technical team of software and infrastructure engineers
- Experience with technical and legal data governance frameworks
- Communicates clearly with executive and nontechnical stakeholders
Objectives
- Adoption of the Flagship Data Exchange by all wholly-owned portfolio companies by June 2026
- Improve leverage of data for individual companies
- Enable sharing of new AI models trained on pan-portfolio data
- Enable well-governed cross-company data access
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.
At Flagship, we accept impossible missions to enable bigger leaps. Our core 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.
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The salary range for this role is $275,000 - $365,000. 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.
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Skills Required
- Experience designing and delivering scalable data platforms used in machine learning contexts with sensitive proprietary data
- Experience balancing performance and cost of hardware and software vendor solutions with internal development efforts
- Strong knowledge of user-centered software product development
- Experience working with machine learning teams
- Demonstrated ability to understand concerns, align value, and enable shared outcomes across many stakeholders
- History of leading a high-functioning technical team of software and infrastructure engineers
- Experience with technical and legal data governance frameworks
- Communicates clearly with executive and nontechnical stakeholders
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).
