Flagship Pioneering | Cambridge, MA Chief Scientific Officer- Preemptive Health & Medicine

Chief Scientific Officer- Preemptive Health & Medicine

Cambridge, MA USA

About Preemptive Health and Medicine

Flagship's Preemptive Health & Medicine Initiative is pioneering a new field to protect, maintain, or improve people's health before they get sick. Starting with the premise that health should be accessible for all, this initiative is pursuing interventions that protect health from external threats and those that can prevent or delay the onset of diseases. This work has the potential to revolutionize the way we prepare for the next infectious disease threat and the way we prevent and preempt disease such as Type 2 Diabetes, cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders, adding years to life and life to years.

Position Summary:

Reporting to Senior Partner for Preemptive Health and Medicine, the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) for Preemptive Health and Medicine at Flagship Pioneering will play a pivotal role in driving our mission to protect, maintain and improve people’s health before they get sick. This high-impact role involves spearheading research initiatives, setting scientific strategies, and leading a dynamic team of scientific colleagues to develop groundbreaking preemptive health technologies and therapies. The ideal candidate will possess a unique blend of scientific vision, leadership acumen, and entrepreneurial spirit.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership:

• Develop and implement a transformative scientific strategy focused on preemptive health and medicine, that incorporates thinking across the origination teams and Flagship Companies.
• Identify emerging scientific trends in preemptive health and medicine and opportunities to create new capabilities and innovations.
• Collaborate with other senior leaders to align the strategic scientific direction of preemptive health with the company’s overall mission and business goals.

Research & Development:

• Coordinate and provide oversight to R&D activities within the preemptive health and medicine domain.
• Partner with individuals in the regulatory and government space to ensure pathways for clinical trials, approvals, and commercial environments develop for preemptive health.
• Design, manage, and evaluate advanced research projects, ensuring they meet high standards of scientific rigor.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire a multidisciplinary team of scientists, researchers, and innovators.
• Cultivate a collaborative and inclusive work environment that encourages creativity and professional growth.
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including academic institutions, healthcare organizations, and industry partners.
• Represent the company at scientific conferences, industry events, and within professional networks.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to accelerate the development and implementation of novel preemptive health solutions.
• Contribute to the ideation and incubation of new ventures within Flagship Pioneering’s ecosystem.
• Play an active role in the creation and development of new scientific concepts and business opportunities.

Qualifications:

• PhD/MD with at least 15+ years of experience in the life sciences sector.
• Proven scientific entrepreneur with strong business acumen that brings a track record of ideating high-quality products or companies from various sources (internal innovation, academics, partnerships, etc.).
• Expertise in therapeutics and/or diagnostics with deep proficiency in one of the following indications: cardiometabolic, infectious diseases, oncology, and/or neurology.
• Highly proficient in driving strategy for early discovery endeavors to product commercialization.
• Experienced across multiple regulatory & reimbursement landscapes highly preferred.
• Track record of initiating and maintaining high-caliber partnerships/collaborations/alliances with reputable institutions and brings a large network in biotech/pharma/device.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise in digital health, wearables/sensors, patient engagement/monitoring, and/or behavior interventions.
• Expertise in therapeutics amongst all of the aforementioned indications.
• Well-versed in crafting deal structures, driving value inflection points, and building top-performing teams.
• Technically adept to lead technology due diligence, search/evaluation, market competitive landscape analyses, and build out of robust/versatile pipelines across multiple product categories.

About Flagship Pioneering:

Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps. Those big leaps in human health and sustainability exponentially accelerate scientific progress in areas ranging from cancer detection and treatment to nature-positive agriculture.

What sets Flagship apart is our ability to advance biotechnology by uniting life science innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that is largely without precedent. Our scientific founders, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and transform for the benefit of people and planet.

Many of the companies Flagship has founded 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.

Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.