Senior UX Designer, Agentic AI

 

ABOUT PIONEERING INTELLIGENCE 

Pioneering Intelligence builds on Flagship Pioneering’s legacy of founding cutting-edge science and computational ventures, harnessing recent advances in AI, machine learning, and data to accelerate fundamental research and create a portfolio of AI-first companies. As part of Flagship’s integrated model of science, entrepreneurship, and capital, it transforms breakthrough ideas into world-changing companies, elevating the AI advances happening across the ecosystem in human health, sustainability, and beyond. 

THE ROLE 

Pioneering Intelligence is seeking a Senior UXD to partner across Product, AI research, engineering, legal, communications and marketing, multi-disciplinary scientific groups and venture creation teams to solve the most impactful challenges in AI for the life sciences. 

We are building a next-generation digital foundation that integrates computational science, AI/ML, knowledge engineering, data platforms, and workflow automation. These capabilities support Flagship’s unique model of exploring the unknown and translating scientific insight into world-changing companies. 

The UX Designer, Agentic AI will design intuitive, high-impact and trustworthy user experiences for agentic AI products thereby accelerating product adoption, Delighting users and driving business impact. This is an individual contributor role with ownership of UX across key AI-integrated products and a mandate to shape scalable UX patterns and systems for the Agentic AI organization. As part of a multidisciplinary (product, software engineers, AI scientists) team, you will work closely with scientists and business stakeholders to shape how they apply agentic systems to reimagine workflows, translating complex capabilities into trusted, valuable experiences while helping establish strong UX practices in a fast-moving startup environment. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Own UX for defined product areas with product guidance 
• Translate AI behavior into intuitive, trustworthy experiences that drive outcomes 
• Partner with product and engineering to iterate designs based on user research and user and product data 
• Prototype, test, and iterate rapidly with users 
• Contribute to scalable UX patterns and systems 

QUALIFICATIONS 

• Minimum 5-6 years of experience designing products for scientific users 
• Background in biotech or life sciences 
• Demonstrated evidence-based, user-centered design practice 
• Experience with continuous discovery methods 
• Ownership mindset with bias toward action 
• Comfort working through ambiguity 

 PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• Demonstrated experience designing AI-powered experiences, including human-in-the-loop  
• Familiarity with agentic workflows, automated systems and/or decision support systems 
• Background in human-computer interaction 
• Experience prototyping adaptive interfaces, including AI assisted eg. vibe coding 
• Comfort working in fast-changing environments 
• Contribute to Design Systems, improving speed and consistency of development 

OBJECTIVES 

• Reduce friction in human–AI collaboration, including increase user trust in AI powered products 
• Accelerate product adoption and improve engagement 
• Increase user delight and perceived value of products 

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 $108,000 - $170,700. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Pioneering Intelligence currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits. Compensation and benefits information is based on Pioneering Intelligence's good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.