Director, Executive and Administrative Services

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 humanitys 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 FORTUNEs 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 Companys annual list of the Worlds Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at.

At Flagship we accept impossible missions to enable bigger leaps. Ourcore valuesguide us through uncertainty and toward lasting impact.

Role Summary:

This is a newly created enterprise-level leadership role responsible for building scaling and operationalizing Flagships Executive Assistant and Administrative function. Reporting to the SVP Asset Management & Real Estate Operations this role leads a centralized team of 30 professionals who support senior leaders across the Flagship Director will define how executive support operates at scaletransitioning from high-quality individual support to a coordinated standardized and strategically aligned function. This includes establishing operating models setting performance expectations and ensuring consistent service delivery across teams and companies. This role is both operational and strategic: you will directly manage people and performance while also designing systems structures and standards that elevate executive support into a formalized high-impact capability across Flagship.

As a Director Executive & Administrative Services you will:

• Lead manage and develop a team of 30 Executive Assistants and administrative professionals setting clear expectations for performance accountability and service quality.
• Own performance management across the function including coaching feedback calibration and corrective action.
• Define and formalize the Executive Assistant role at Flagship including scope expectations boundaries and success metrics and establish structured career pathways and development frameworks.
• Design implement and continuously evolve a scalable executive support operating model including optimal EA-to-executive ratios aligned to organizational needs.
• Establish and enforce enterprise-wide service standards while standardizing workflows across meeting management presentations travel and executive communications.
• Implement tools templates and process improvements including AI and automation to drive efficiency consistency and executive effectiveness.
• Monitor workload distribution capacity and coverage to ensure reliability and serve as the escalation point for complex executive support challenges.
• Lead administrative components of cross-functional initiatives partner with Talent Acquisition on hiring and proactively adapt team structure to support organizational growth.

Who You Are:

• Ability to work in our Cambridge MA office on a consistent basis at minimum 4 days a week to support the teams needs.
• 10 years of Progressive Executive Assistant experience preferably at the C suite level.
• Demonstrated experience leading or managing Executive Assistants or administrative teams at scale.
• Exceptional judgement discretion and executive presence with the gravitas and confidence to engage senior leaders directly and constructively influence outcomes in high-stakes environments.
• Experience leading organizational design effort of administrative functions.
• Strong performance management and coaching capability.
• Ability to set boundaries and manage difficult conversations with senior stakeholders.
• Highly effective relationship builder with the ability to influence across levels and functions
• Demonstrated ability to lead through change in a high-growth high-expectation environment.

The salary range for this role is $172000 - $236500. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors including a candidates 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 Pioneerings good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.

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 strengthswithout 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 backgroundand 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 Pioneerings 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 $172000 - $236500. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors including a candidates 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 Pioneerings good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.

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