Vice President, Data Platform

 

ABOUT PIONEERING INTELLIGENCE

Pioneering Intelligence builds on Flagship Pioneering’s legacy of founding cutting-edge science and computational ventures, harnessing recent advances in AI, machine learning, and data to accelerate fundamental research and create a portfolio of AI-first companies. As part of Flagship’s integrated model of science, entrepreneurship, and capital, it transforms breakthrough ideas into world-changing companies, elevating the AI advances happening across the ecosystem in human health, sustainability, and beyond.

 

Position Summary

Flagship's Pioneering Intelligence seeks a VP AI Data Platform to lead the strategy and development of our AI-native data technologies. This platform leverages our unique breadth of portfolio company data in partnership with our AI scientists to return differentiated AI models and tools to the benefit of our portfolio companies. This leader partners with our scientific, technical, business, and legal colleagues to enable new AI capabilities while maintaining strong controls, trust, and compliance. 

Key Responsibilities

• Own strategy and continued development of an AI-native data platform for benefits dozens of portfolio companies 
• Deliver a product-minded and user-centered roadmap for the data platform 
• Lead a high-performing technical team to implement the roadmap 
• Build strategic co-development partnerships with external collaborators 
• Work with leaders across the portfolio to ensure enthusiastic adoption of data platform tools 
• Drives adoption across all wholly-owned portfolio companies 
• Work with colleagues in Pioneering Intelligence to enable differentiated and innovative molecular models and agentic systems that leverage the data platform 
• Ensures secure, compliant cross-company data governance 

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering scalable data platforms used in machine learning contexts with sensitive proprietary data