Product Concept Innovation Associate

The role

The Associate will imagine and create transformative therapies using novel platforms and technologies. This role involves innovating product concepts through iterative exploration and refinement to pioneer therapeutic solutions.

What you will do

• Lead and contribute to high-impact product concept explorations across various therapeutic areas.
• Generate and refine transformative clinical outcomes, proposing scopes and objectives for each exploration.
• Collaborate with a small team to generate diverse product concepts.
• Define and articulate selected product concepts and required platform capabilities.
• Engage in the prioritization process of compelling concepts for development.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across Flagship and its platform companies.
• Gather, review, and integrate information from multiple domains to advance product concept explorations.
• Consult with internal and external experts and shape hypotheses.
• Assess biological, clinical, and commercial hypotheses of product concepts.
• Perform deep dives and diligence of potential programs and generate competitive and landscape analyses.

Required qualifications

• PhD, Medical Degree (MD or DO or equivalent), or MD/PhD
• 2+ Years of experience post PhD
• Significant research experience, including peer-reviewed publications.
• Basic scientific training and/or recognized scientific expertise in a relevant field.
• Highly resourceful and effective in uncertain circumstances.
• Strong prioritization and adaptive synthesis skills.
• Comfortable venturing into new scientific and clinical spaces.
• Willingness to consider unconventional approaches to challenging problems.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively within and across functions and teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with good conflict resolution capabilities.
• Ability to distill and synthesize information for diverse audiences.

Nice to have

• Clinical and drug development experience are advantageous but not required.

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage
• Annual incentive program
• Retirement benefits
• Broad range of other benefits

About the company

Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources, and develops first-in-category life sciences companies to transform human health and sustainability.