Product Concept Innovation Associate

Flagship Pioneering, Inc. • Cambridge, MA

99d • $155,000 - $170,000

About The Position

Our 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. Reporting to the Head of Explorations, this role focuses on leading new product concept explorations through an iterative hypothesis generation and refinement process. The Associate will gather, review, and integrate information from multiple domains to advance product concept explorations. This involves consulting with external experts, shaping hypotheses, and presenting developed concepts to stakeholders. Other responsibilities include providing clinical insights on unmet needs and the patient journey, and contributing to clinical development plans, trial designs, and regulatory guidance. 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

• Medical Degree (MD or DO or equivalent), PhD, or MD/PhD with significant research experience, including peer-reviewed publications.
• Basic scientific training and/or recognized scientific expertise in a relevant field.
• Clinical experience and clinical 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.
• Leadership skills to guide teams through complex explorations and influence team decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with good conflict resolution capabilities.
• Ability to distill and synthesize information for varied audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to high-impact product explorations across various therapeutic areas each year.
• 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.
• Engage in the prioritization process of compelling concepts for development into ProtoCos.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across Flagship and its platform companies to understand their capabilities.
• Balance creative and unconstrained thinking with structured exploration methods designed to achieve transformational clinical outcomes.
• Foster a collaborative, high-energy team environment.

Benefits

• Impactful role in a company recognized for transformative contributions.
• Dynamic startup culture with inspiring colleagues and leaders.
• Support for groundbreaking advancements in healthcare and sustainability.
• Opportunities for professional growth in an innovative environment.
• Comprehensive employee benefits and rewards program.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees