Senior Director, Platform Experience

Flagship Pioneering, Inc.•Cambridge, MA

5d•$223,000 - $294,000

About The Position

Pioneering Intelligence is building a portfolio of tools, applications, and agentic systems on shared data, model, and agent capabilities. The Senior Director, Platform Experience will unify these offerings into a platform that scientists trust and adopt. The role sets the platform’s experience vision and architecture, defines how scientists work with AI agents, and develops a design system used 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, including selecting and evolving AI-assisted tools that connect design intent with working software. The role works closely with product managers, engineers, ML researchers, computational biologists, and scientists, serves as design’s voice to PI leadership, and reports to the VP of Platform for Pioneering Intelligence.

Requirements

At least 10 years of product design experience, including design leadership for complex technical or scientific platforms.
Experience unifying separate tools into a coherent platform experience that people adopted.
Experience shipping AI products to production, such as agents, LLM-powered workflows, or retrieval over proprietary data.
Ability to design AI experiences 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.
Strong interaction and visual design skills, taking work through to polished, production-ready UI.
Ability to prototype in code and use AI-assisted design and development tools on a team.
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 secure decisions.
Able to set strategic direction while also doing detailed, hands-on design work.
Ownership through implementation and QA, close partnership with engineers, and sound judgment about where to focus effort.
Curiosity about scientists’ work and ability to learn from experts.
Willingness to evaluate emerging tools and keep those that work.
Comfort making progress amid ambiguity.

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, from research and early concepts through coded prototypes, production UI, and QA.
Develop a coded design system and pattern library used across Pioneering Intelligence and the Flagship ecosystem.
Build design into an AI-driven development lifecycle and select and evolve AI-assisted tools that connect design intent with working software.
Partner with product managers, engineers, ML researchers, computational biologists, and scientists.
Represent design to Pioneering Intelligence leadership and communicate strategy, trade-offs, and resource needs.