Corporate Paralegal
Cambridge, MA - USA
Job Summary
What ifyou could tell the story of an organization that creates resources and builds bioplatform companies that invent breakthrough technologies in order to transform human health and sustainability
Flagship Pioneering conceives creates resources and develops first-in-category bioplatform companies to transform human health and sustainability. Since its launch in 2000 the firm has through its Flagship Labs unit applied its unique hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures resulting in over $130 billion in aggregate value. To date Flagship has deployed over $2.5 billion in capital toward the founding and growth of its pioneering companies alongside more than $19 billion of follow-on investments from other institutions.
Position Overview
Flagship Pioneering has a new and exciting opportunity for a high-energy detail-oriented Corporate Paralegal to join its fast-paced dynamic legal team. This role will report to the Senior Corporate Paralegal and work closely with members of the legal team to support Flagships corporate legal function across its growing portfolio of companies.
The Corporate Paralegal will assist with a range of corporate matters including financings corporate governance equity compensation and general corporate maintenance for Flagship and its cutting-edge high-growth companies. This includes providing support on a variety of transactions and day-to-day corporate activities across both private and public companiessuch as preparing and organizing documentation for financings; supporting equity compensation processes; and maintaining corporate records and governance materials. This role will also have touchpoints in the Finance Human Resources Communications and Flagship Labs groups.
Key Responsibilities
Board Governance Support
- Assist in preparation of board and stockholder consents
- Maintain board records minutes and governance documentation
- Support recurring board cycles across portfolio companies
- Track and organize signature pages; prepare closing binders
Equity Administration
- Support equity grant processing and updates in Carta or similar platforms
- Assist with coordination across HR and Finance on equity-related matters
- Respond to routine equity-related inquiries
Corporate Maintenance & Entity Management
- Maintain and track corporate records minute books and entity documentation
- Support entity formations dissolutions and ongoing maintenance
- Track officer and director information across entities
- Assist with international entity management
Process & Infrastructure Support
- Support development of governance processes and templates
- Assist with compliance initiatives and cross-functional projects
- Contribute to building scalable governance infrastructure
- Assist with the design and development of AI agentic support for routine corporate matters
- Provide backup and surge support to other paralegals on the Flagship legal team
Key Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelors degree required
- 25 years of corporate paralegal experience (law firm and/or in-house)
- Experience with governance entity management or equity administration preferred
- Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment with compressed timelines and evolving priorities.
- Strong priority-setting organizational and communication skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and are highly organized
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced high-volume environment with competing demands.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Willingness to use and adopt AI tools (ChatGPT Claude GC AI) to enhance legal workflows as well as core legal and business platforms (iManage SharePoint Carta Microsoft Office).
Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed toequal employment opportunityregardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity or Veteran status.
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 $88000 - $121000. 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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About Company
We are Flagship Pioneering We are a biotechnology company that invents platforms and builds companies that change the world. Pioneering Partnerships…