Product Concept Innovation Associate

Flagship Pioneering•Cambridge, MA

14h

About The Position

Our Pipeline and Product Innovation team is seeking a curious and driven scientist with either basic science or clinical medicine (or both!) experience to imagine and create transformative therapies using Flagship’s broad array of novel platforms and technologies. This role focuses on the innovation of novel product concepts through an iterative exploration and refinement process and involves working from the unmet need, product, and platform technology perspectives to pioneer novel therapeutic solutions with high impact and value. The Associate will gather, review, and integrate information from multiple domains to advance product concept explorations. This involves consulting with internal and external experts, shaping hypotheses, and presenting developed concepts to stakeholders. Other responsibilities include assessing biological, clinical, and commercial hypotheses of product concepts, performing deep dives and diligence of potential programs, and generating competitive and landscape analyses of therapeutic areas, some of which may be completed in cross-functional collaborations with other teams and functions within the broader Product & Partnering team and Flagship ecosystem. Flagship Pioneering values an entrepreneurial spirit and seeks individuals comfortable working in a dynamic and cross-functional team environment. The level of this role will be commensurate with the candidate’s education and experience.

Requirements

PhD, Medical Degree (MD or DO or equivalent), or MD/PhD
2+ Years of experience post PhD
Significant research experience, including peer-reviewed publications.
Basic scientific training and/or recognized scientific expertise in a relevant field.
Clinical and drug development experience are advantageous but not required.
Highly resourceful and effective in uncertain circumstances.
Strong prioritization and adaptive synthesis skills.
Comfortable venturing into new scientific and clinical spaces.
Willingness to consider unconventional approaches to challenging problems.
Proven ability to work collaboratively within and across functions and teams.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with good conflict resolution capabilities.
Ability to distill and synthesize information for diverse audiences.

Nice To Haves

Clinical and drug development experience

Responsibilities

Lead and contribute to high-impact product concept explorations across various therapeutic areas.
Generate and refine transformative clinical outcomes, proposing scopes and objectives for each exploration.
Collaborate with a small team to generate diverse product concepts, subjecting ideas to rigorous validation and expert critique.
Define and articulate selected product concepts, detailing the platform capabilities and technologies required to enable execution.
Engage in the prioritization process of compelling concepts for development into asset-focused companies.
Build and maintain strong relationships across Flagship and its platform companies to understand their capabilities.
Embody the “Paranoid Optimist” persona: balance creative and unconstrained thinking with structured exploration methods designed to achieve transformational clinical outcomes.
Foster a collaborative, high-energy team environment.