Senior Director, Strategy and Operations

Position Summary: As a Flagship Labs Sr. Director, Strategy and Operations for 2 Origination Teams, you will be responsible for facilitating, coordinating and managing the execution of company creation activities with the highest degree of entrepreneurialism, creativity, agility and achievement-orientation. The role will entail serving as an operations thought partner to each Origination Team Leader, ensuring excellence in the execution of scientific innovation and entrepreneurial company creation, by e.g., supporting Flagship-wide corporate processes, leading program management best practices across Origination Team portfolio companies and initiatives’ implementation, and development of Origination talent and culture. This highly visible position is responsible for coordinating organizational execution, optimizing communication, workflows, resource management, and productivity of the Origination Teams – in service of highly productive and effective value creation across a portfolio of companies. As such, you will have dual reporting lines to the Origination Team Leaders across the teams you contribute to. Are you ready to translate vision into action in a fast paced and highly innovative ecosystem of early to mid-stage biotechnology companies? Responsibilities: Work with the Origination Team Leaders to set organizational priorities. Ensure that objectives and associated activities are clearly communicated and understood, and that goals are tracked. Maintain dashboards and track KPIs for Origination Team strategy and operations. Play a cross functional leadership role in identifying, designing and implementing strategic initiatives that impact the portfolio. Partner with Flagship Pioneering (FSP) functions and groups such as Finance, HR, Legal, IT, Business Development, CEO office, Pioneering Medicines, Pioneering Intelligence, and other advisory groups to ensure effective collaboration with Origination Teams’ portfolio companies. In collaboration with the finance team, HR, and the individual originators, provide visibility into and guidance on the overall resource allocation across all projects and companies in the portfolios. As needed and on a temporary basis, partner with a specific portfolio company leadership team to ensure effective, timely execution of complex projects leading to the achievement of value creation milestones. Set agendas and cadence for Origination Team meetings and ensure successful preparation and execution for these meetings. Document and communicate decisions and action items from meetings and ensure follow-up and closure of action items. Prepare or contribute to the preparation of high-quality reports, briefings, presentations, etc. for meetings involving the Origination Team Leaders and other FSP Leaders (e.g., Origination Team and portfolio reviews). Document and ensure completion of follow-up items from those meetings. Develop and utilize key program management tools, processes, AI agents and tools to ensure efficient tracking and reporting Develop, maintain and disseminate current best practices for ideation, company creation, launch and fundraising preparedness. Enable transparent and candid communication across the Origination Team and portfolio companies. Identify opportunities for Origination Team projects and companies to collaborate with and draw upon FSP capabilities and ecosystem of companies. Facilitate and track collaborations. In collaboration with FSP Talent Acquisition and Human Resources leaders, ensure timely hiring and onboarding of new Origination Team members Guide people resource allocation across the portfolio to align with bandwidth, development and execution priorities. Actively participate in culture development and sustainability Work closely with Finance partners on Origination Team budgeting Identify issues that impact the successful execution of plans. Escalate risks and offer ideas to mitigate. Bring high energy and team spirit that leads to a highly functioning team