Executive Assistant

Company Summary:

ProFound Therapeutics is a privately held, early-stage biotechnology company with the vision to revolutionize the human therapeutic landscape. ProFound was founded by Flagship Pioneering, a team of entrepreneurial scientists that has created over 75 groundbreaking companies that are pioneering novel and proprietary biological, industrial, and engineering approaches to solve major needs in human health and sustainability. These companies include Moderna Therapeutics (NASDAQ:MRNA), Seres Therapeutics (MCRB), Syros Pharmaceuticals (SYRS), Evelo Biosciences (EVLO), and Indigo Agriculture. ProFound Therapeutics is a highly dynamic, entrepreneurial, and innovation-driven organization seeking to hire an exceptional scientist to join our team.

The Role: 

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Executive Assistant to join the ProFound team. The Executive Assistant will provide high-level support to the CEO, CSO, and President as well as have office management responsibilities.  The ideal candidate will leverage a broad range of skills including a high degree of professionalism and discretion when handling a wide variety of responsibilities. The successful candidate will be a detail-oriented, critical thinker with strong organizational and interpersonal skills. Requires the ability to proactively build organizational knowledge and relationships and thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. This is an office-based role (work from office 3 days a week) at our Southline (Dorchester, MA) location.

Key Responsibilities:

Administrative Support

• Coordination multiple executives’ calendars for work related to the operational day-to-day activities.
• Email management as required by the executives.
• Responsible for proactively coordinating meetings and managing internal and external communications. 
• Coordinate worldwide travel plans including expense reporting and reimbursement.
• Proactively collaborate with other administrative staff members in collaboration and coordination of calendars, requests, and events.
• Coordinate in-office events (lunch & learns, happy hours, special lunches, celebrations, etc)
• Help to coordinate offsite events.

Office Management

• Order snacks, beverages, etc and ensuring the kitchen area is well stocked.
• Order and manage office supplies.
• Contact IT, facilities, etc as needed for Southline concerns.
• Work with building security and facilities to provide badge access to new employees.
• Work with the shipping and receiving team as needed.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of administrative experience 
• Exceptional organization skills, with keen attention to detail and a strong ability execute.
• Demonstrated ability to handle sensitive information and situations with care and confidence.
• Ability to work across various roles and teams in a dynamic, demanding, and fast-paced environment while remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful, and efficient.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills; outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Strong work ethic and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Proficient in MS Office
• Office-based role (expectation is to be in the office 5 days a week) 
• High level of commitment, availability after hours and on weekends, as needed.

 

About Flagship

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. 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