FL97: VP/SVP, Life Sciences Strategy

The Company

Flagship Labs 97 Inc. (FL97) is a privately held, early-stage technology company pioneering the application of artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the scientific method. FL97 is backed by Flagship Pioneering, which brings the courage, long-term vision, and resources needed to realize unreasonable results. Join our mission-driven team and contribute to the future of science.

Our Life Sciences effort is leveraging AI and high-throughput automation for valuable therapeutic discovery and development across biological modalities.

The Role

FL97 is seeking a dedicated and skilled VP/SVP, Life Science Strategy to join our team. The role will focus on...

Responsibilities Include:

Product and Commercial Strategy:

• Generate a framework and strategic map of value-creation opportunities from Lila's life sciences platform
• Collaborate with Business Development to define a framework for when Lila should contemplate executing different business models in Life Sciences (spinouts, partnerships, etc.)
• Define Lila's initial portfolio of Vanguard Products and long-term roadmap. Connect Lila's product strategy with the AI Research Team's strategy and Grand Challenges to create coherence between the two forms of value creation.
• Defined detailed target product profiles (TPPs) for Vanguard Products from each AI Science Factory. Translate the product opportunities into requirements that shape the current and future development of Lila's AI Science Factory
• Collaborate to map value creation milestones and value inflection points to investor expectations inherent in fundraising outcomes
• Product Development and Project Management
• Define and initiate the operating cadence for Lila's life sciences product programs.
• Drive program management for Lila's Life Sciences product programs-relentlessly remove roadblocks to deliver market-aligned products
• Collaboration
• Act as a thought leader across the Life Sciences team to remove friction and ensure a constant acceleration of problem solving and decision making
• Collaborate with technical leaders to ensure we have maximum utilization and speed of the platform toward value
• Work closely with the CPO, Materials to have a translation layer between ROI based views across Life and Physical Sciences of the incremental value associated with new programs

At FL97, we are uniquely cross-functional and collaborative. We are actively reimagining the way teams work together and communicate. Therefore, we seek individuals with an inclusive mindset and a diversity of thought. Our teams thrive in unstructured and creative environments. All voices are heard because we know that experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way.

If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you only have some of the experience listed below, please apply.

Qualifications:

• PhD in life sciences discipline
• Experience in product valuation
• Large pharma company and small biotech experience
• Experience managing high performing teams
• Plus (but not necessary): Business development experience
• Plus (but not necessary): AI experience

Working at FL97, you would have access to advanced technology in the areas of:

• AI experimental design and simulation
• Automated liquid handling and custom instrumentation
• Generative molecular design

More About Flagship Pioneering

Flagship Pioneering is a company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. 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. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.

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.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, "FSP") do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering's internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.