Director, Legal Compliance

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COMPANY OVERVIEW

Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies that change the world. Flagship Pioneering brings together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assembles the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps.

Those significant leaps in human health and sustainability exponentially accelerate scientific progress in areas ranging from cancer detection and treatment to nature-positive agriculture.

What sets Flagship Pioneering apart is its ability to advance biotechnology by uniting life science innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that is largely without precedent. Its scientific founders, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables the organization to innovate and transform for the benefit of people and planet.

Many of the companies Flagship Pioneering 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 Pioneering 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.

POSITION SUMMARY

This is an outstanding career opportunity for a highly motivated Compliance Director to join the Legal Operations team at Flagship Pioneering. The Compliance Director will operationalize the compliance program supporting Flagship's government contracts and grants, building the policies, training, certifications, monitoring, and reporting needed to meet the organization's obligations and set scalable standards as international operations expand. This is a ground-up build: the successful candidate will design and stand up a program that does not yet exist today, with substantial ownership over its shape and direction.

In the near term, the Compliance Director will work alongside outside advisors to establish the government contracting compliance program. The role will also require the Compliance Director to be well versed in the financial services and capital markets regulatory frameworks applicable to sophisticated capital allocators, both domestically and internationally including the compliance obligations that arise as fund structures, investment strategies, and regulatory expectations evolve over time. This position carries high visibility across the organization and requires a proactive, positive, and professional approach at all times.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Compliance Director shall be responsible for the following duties and responsibilities:

• Operationalize

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The salary range for this role is $172,000 - $236,500. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s 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 Pioneering's good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.

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