Director, Corporate Development

2 weeks ago


Cambridge, United States Flagship Ventures Full time
What if... you could join an organization that creates, resources, and builds life sciences companies that invent breakthrough technologies to transform human health and sustainability?

Company Summary:
Quotient Therapeutics, Inc. is a privately held, early-stage company developing a novel genomics platform and therapeutics for diseases with a large unmet need.

Quotient Therapeutics, Inc. was founded by Flagship Pioneering, an innovative enterprise that conceives, creates, resources, and grows first-in-category life sciences companies. Flagship Pioneering has created over 100 groundbreaking companies over the past twenty years, all of which are pioneering novel and proprietary biological, industrial, and engineering approaches to solve major needs in human health and sustainability. These companies include Moderna (MRNA) Generate Biomedicines, Sana Biotechnology (SANA), Tessera Therapeutics, Evelo Biosciences (EVLO), Indigo Agriculture, Seres Therapeutics (MCRB), and Syros Pharmaceuticals (SYRS). 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. In 2021, Flagship Pioneering was ranked 12th globally 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.

Position Summary:

The Director, Corporate Development will be responsible for driving communication with Quotient's Board, Investors, and external partners. This role will drive high-priority, high-impact projects across the organization, partnering with scientific and business leaders to drive corporate development, business development, market/strategic analyses, and investor relations. The successful candidate will have scientific acumen, be deeply collaborative, an outstanding communicator, and will thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Key Responsibilities
  • Collaborate closely with the executive team and cross-functional leaders to shape and execute the company's corporate development strategy
  • Support business development and alliance management, interfacing with key external audiences and managing our overall BD operations and calendar
  • Work to identify attractive government and philanthropic funding opportunities
  • Manage our board meeting process, defining content calendar and organizing inputs from stakeholders
  • Develop and refine company presentation materials, tailoring to multiple audiences
  • Foster strong cross-functional collaboration with teams such as R&D, operations, finance, and legal
  • Partner with internal stakeholders, such as the marketing and communications teams, to ensure alignment and consistency in messaging and branding
  • Rapidly establish credibly, trust, and respect across the organization operating as a true strategic thought partner to the Quotient team
  • Lead with authenticity and a sense of urgency that inspires the team to communicate openly and thrive together
Qualifications and Skills
  • PhD preferred, BS or other graduate degree in life sciences required.
  • Strong familiarity with the pharmaceutical/biotech industry and drug development landscape. Experience in Biopharma management consulting, investment banking, and/or Biotech startup highly preferred
  • Ability to communicate credibly and clearly with a wide variety of stakeholders, both internal and external
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Capable of communicating complex ideas in simple frameworks and developing compelling presentations or proposals
  • Curious, sharp business acumen, superior analytic and communication skills. Appropriately balance multiple priorities and work against tight timelines
  • Results-driven, high-performer with a highly collaborative style; able to influence and build consensus across all levels of the organization
  • Highly self-motivated with demonstrated agility to multitask, manage time, handle uncertainty, and work under pressure with limited oversight

Location: Cambridge, MA

or

Location: Cambridge, England

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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