Director Financing Services
Flagship Pioneering
Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. We create about six new companies every year and incubate them through successive rounds of funding.
Since launching 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.
Position Summary:
Flagship Pioneering is seeking a high-performing, intellectually curious Associate Director to join our Financing Services team. This role is critical to shaping and executing financing strategies across a portfolio of pioneering biotech ventures. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience in equity capital markets—particularly in the life sciences sector—and a proven track record of executing IPOs, follow-ons, SPACs, and private placements.
This is a high-impact, high-visibility role with direct exposure to venture creation, executive teams, and the institutional investor community.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and support the execution of capital markets transactions across Flagship-founded companies, including IPOs, follow-ons, SPACs, and private financings Serve as a strategic liaison between internal venture creation teams, portfolio company leadership, and external bankers, legal counsel, and investors
- Build and manage relationships with institutional investors to support ongoing and future financings
- Advise portfolio executives on market dynamics, transaction timing, valuation, and structure
- Develop and review high-quality offering materials, investor presentations, and board updates
- Maintain and enhance databases and market intelligence tools to support transaction planning and market tracking
- Contribute thought leadership on capital formation strategy and emerging market trends in biotech
Qualifications:
- 5–7 years of experience in investment banking, equity capital markets, or strategic finance, with demonstrated success in the biotech or healthcare sector
- Deep understanding of public and private capital markets processes and regulatory environments
- Experience partnering with C-level executives, bankers, and legal teams on live transactions
- Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred
- FINRA Series 79 and 63 (or ability to obtain promptly)
- High proficiency in market tools including CapIQ, PitchBook, Dealogic, and
- Excel-based financial modeling
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to engage credibly with senior stakeholders and boards
- Meticulous attention to detail and a proactive, resourceful mindset
- Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and collaborative environment
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.
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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