Head of Product

Qualifications:

• A demonstrated record of building and scaling consumer products from early promise to sustained adoption, with measurable improvements in retention, user value, and business performance. Experience with consumer subscriptions, messaging, or other products built around repeat use is especially relevant.
• Strong product judgment and taste, including the ability to identify important user problems, create simple and compelling experiences, and make sound decisions with incomplete information. Attention to language and interaction design is essential.
• Experience leading teams and developing strong leaders, with the credibility and technical fluency to manage engineering and AI research directly. Ability to assess talent, coach technical leaders, resolve competing priorities, and hold teams accountable. Prior responsibility for engineering or research organizations is especially valuable.
• Practical experience shipping AI products and a strong understanding of probabilistic behavior, evaluation, memory, personalization, and model limitations. Ability to question technical assumptions, distinguish a promising demonstration from a dependable product, and judge when further research is warranted.
• Analytical depth across funnels, cohort retention, experimentation, pricing, and unit economics. Ability to combine quantitative evidence with user research, distinguish causation from correlation, and change direction when the evidence calls for it.
• Executive ownership combined with a willingness to do the work: write a brief, inspect the data, challenge a prototype, manage resources, and unblock a launch. Ability to move between long-term strategy and detailed execution.
• Excellent written communication, presentation, and collaboration skills. Ability to build productive relationships across design, engineering, research, growth, operations, and company leadership, and explain complex tradeoffs clearly.
• Self-motivated and comfortable working in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment with evolving goals. Ability to think independently, make difficult prioritization decisions, and create focus without unnecessary process. Experience in an early-stage company is especially valuable.
• A strong interest in psychology, behavior change, and helping people act with greater agency. Sound judgment in products people trust with sensitive information, and a clear understanding of the difference between meaningful user benefit and engagement that does not serve the user. Experience in wellbeing, coaching, or other high-trust consumer products is a plus.
• About Flagship
• Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies Flagship has founded 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.
• Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
• At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.
• 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 $213,000 - $280,500. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. FL105 currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits. Compensation and benefits information is based on FL105's good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.