Director/Senior Director, Digital Business Partnership

THE ROLE

The Director/Senior Director, Digital Business Partnership – PBUs & FLs serves as the strategic digital interface between assigned Pioneering Business Units (PBUs) and Flagship Labs companies (FLs) and the broader Digital & IT organization. This role supports companies from their ProtoCo launch through to NewCo scaling and Operational GrowthCo transitions. Operating within Flagship’s Business Partnership model, the Director is responsible for aligning digital strategy to business maturity, overseeing digital intake and prioritization, and coordinating execution readiness across matrixed IT delivery functions. This role ensures that each company’s digital foundation is appropriately established and evolved in a way that enables scientific, operational, and partnership success.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Engagement & Lifecycle Support

• Serve as the primary digital partner to assigned PBUs and FLs, providing continuous support from ProtoCo launch through GrowthCo transition.
• Support business leaders in translating scientific and operational strategies into aligned digital priorities.
• Sponsor the digital roadmap for each assigned company and represent digital priorities in Flagship governance forums.
• Ensure platform and infrastructure needs are met to support milestones such as funding events, BD engagement, etc...
• Support the adoption and application of Digital Launch and Operational Growth Transition (OGT) playbooks in collaboration with IT delivery functions and the Office of the CIO.

Intake & Prioritization

• Lead intake and validation of digital requests across assigned companies; ensure alignment with enterprise platform strategy and standards.
• Collaborate with PMs, analysts, and delivery leaders to ensure scoping is supported by context, value, and timing.
• Sponsor business case development and ensure each initiative is prioritized through related governance forums.
• Track intake and roadmap status across companies using shared tools in collaboration with the Office of the CIO.
• Guide digital investment discussions with business leaders and coordinate Build budget inputs.

Delivery Coordination & Governance

• Serve as a strategic liaison to IT delivery leads across Research Systems, Enterprise Applications, Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity.
• Ensure business needs are accurately reflected during project planning; hand off scoped initiatives to delivery teams for execution.
• Partner with IT delivery functions to support requirement gathering, testing coordination, and system validation readiness.
• Participate in project milestone and governance reviews as a business-aligned sponsor, but not as a delivery manager.
• Raise delivery risks, blockers, and coordination challenges to the Office of the CIO as needed to maintain portfolio alignment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS 

• 8–10+ years of experience in digital strategy, IT business partnership, or life sciences systems implementation.
• Experience supporting early-stage and growth-stage biotech companies, ideally within platform-based or portfolio models.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally across science, operations, and IT to define and prioritize digital initiatives.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, lab IT systems (e.g., Benchling, LIMS), collaboration platforms (e.g., M365), and cyber standards.
• Strong understanding of the challenges associated with scaling IT capabilities across maturing biotech organizations.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent partnerships, prioritize across a portfolio, and influence without direct authority.

ABOUT FLAGSHIP PIONEERING

Flagship Pioneering invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health, sustainability and beyond. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated more than 100 companies. Many of these companies 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.

At Flagship, we accept impossible missions to enable bigger leaps. Our core values guide us through uncertainty and toward lasting impact.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We recognize that great candidates often bring unique strengths without fulfilling every qualification. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your background and interest in Flagship.

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.

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The salary range for this role is $172,000 - $280,500. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Flagship Pioneering currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits. Compensation and benefits information is based on Flagship Pioneering's good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.