Senior Director, Platform Experience

Flagship Pioneering•Cambridge, MA

About The Position

Pioneering Intelligence is seeking a Senior Director, Platform Experience to turn its portfolio of tools, apps, and agentic systems into a unified platform that scientists trust and adopt. The role will set the platform’s experience vision and architecture, define how scientists work with AI agents, and build a coded design system used by teams across Pioneering Intelligence and the Flagship ecosystem. This is a hands-on design leadership role. The Senior Director will personally design and ship scientific workflows from research and early concepts through coded prototypes, production UI, and QA. They will also shape design’s role in an AI-driven development lifecycle, selecting and evolving AI-assisted tools that connect design intent with working software. The role reports to the VP of Platform for Pioneering Intelligence and works closely with product managers, engineers, ML researchers, computational biologists, scientists, and PI leadership.

Requirements

10 or more years of product design experience, including design leadership for complex technical or scientific platforms.
Experience unifying separate tools into a platform with a clear structure that users adopted.
Experience shipping agents, LLM-powered workflows, or retrieval over proprietary data to production.
Experience designing AI products for trust and explainability so users can check what the AI did.
Experience designing for life-sciences R&D and working directly with researchers and scientists, or experience in another technically complex domain with the ability to learn new areas quickly.
Experience building a coded design system and pattern library adopted by multiple teams.
Ability to design object models, information architecture, and navigation across multiple products and surfaces.
Ability to deliver polished, production-ready interaction and visual design.
Experience prototyping in code and using AI-assisted design and development tools with a team to connect design intent with working software.
Ability to turn interviews, observation, and usage data into product and roadmap decisions.
Ability to clearly explain strategy, trade-offs, and resource needs to leadership and get decisions made.

Responsibilities

Set the experience vision and architecture for Pioneering Intelligence’s platform.
Define how scientists work with AI agents.
Personally design and ship end-to-end scientific workflows.
Develop a coded design system used across Pioneering Intelligence and the Flagship ecosystem.
Build design into an AI-driven development lifecycle, including choosing and evolving AI-assisted tools.
Carry work through implementation and QA in close partnership with engineers.
Use research, observation, interviews, and usage data to inform product and roadmap decisions.
Communicate strategy, trade-offs, and resource needs to leadership and support decision-making.