VP/SVP Total Rewards & People Operations

Equity and Incentive Design

• Provide strategic leadership for complex equity and long-term incentive programs, including private-company equity structures and alternative long-term incentive constructs.
• Oversee equity strategy, governance, and operational execution through the team, ensuring strong program design and scalable administration.
• Partner with senior leadership on the design and refinement of incentive and ownership frameworks that support attraction, retention, and long-term value creation.
• Bring familiarity with innovative and non-traditional compensation approaches, including profits interests, carried interest, and related long-term incentive structures.

Benefits Strategy

• Lead benefits strategy across health and welfare, retirement, leave, and ancillary programs, ensuring programs remain competitive, sustainable, and aligned with organizational values and workforce needs.
• Partner with the Benefits leader and external advisors to evaluate plan design, funding, market trends, vendor performance, and evolving regulatory requirements.
• Support harmonization and modernization of benefits strategy where appropriate across a diverse and growing ecosystem.

People Operations

• Oversee key People Operations functions, including onboarding, offboarding, employee lifecycle processes, policy administration, compliance workflows, service delivery, and operational process excellence.
• Ensure people processes are scalable, well-governed, and designed to support a high-quality employee and manager experience.
• Partner effectively across HR, Payroll, IT, Legal, and Finance to improve operational efficiency and strengthen people-related infrastructure.
• Provide leadership on HR compliance, as well as compensation- and benefits-related compliance considerations, in partnership with internal and external experts as appropriate.

People Analytics

• Lead the People Analytics agenda, with an emphasis on generating insights that support executive decision-making across workforce planning, hiring, retention, compensation, and organizational effectiveness.
• Oversee dashboards, reporting, and analytical frameworks that inform leaders including the CEO and CFO.
• Translate data and analysis into actionable recommendations in partnership with HR Business Partners and business leaders.
• Advance a thoughtful, increasingly sophisticated analytics capability that supports better people decisions across Flagship and the broader ecosystem.

Portfolio Company Partnership

• Advise and support portfolio company leaders on Total Rewards strategy, with involvement calibrated to company stage, maturity, and business need.
• Tailor rewards frameworks and guidance for a range of company stages while maintaining sound governance and alignment with broader talent and value creation goals.
• Present recommendations and insights to portfolio company leadership and boards as needed.

Leadership and Team Development

• Lead, develop, and inspire a multi-functional team spanning Compensation, Benefits, People Operations, and People Analytics.
• Foster strong collaboration across functional teams and help continue building a high-performing, service-oriented, and strategically focused organization.
• Manage external consultants, brokers, survey providers, and other key vendors in support of rewards strategy and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in Total Rewards, with significant depth in compensation strategy and experience leading broad, multi-functional teams.
• Deep expertise in compensation design, market benchmarking, executive compensation, incentive strategy, and private-company equity.
• Strong familiarity with alternative long-term incentive structures, including profits interests, carried interest, and other innovative ownership or reward constructs.
• Experience leading or advising on benefits strategy, including health and welfare, retirement, leave, and ancillary offerings.
• Experience overseeing or partnering closely with People Operations and People Analytics functions in complex organizations.
• Demonstrated success operating in high-growth, founder-led, venture-backed, private equity, or similarly dynamic business environments.
• Experience supporting global workforces and navigating matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders and business models.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior leaders, present compelling recommendations, and operate as a trusted advisor.
• Proven ability to translate data and market insights into practical, business-relevant decisions and action plans.
• Experience working with boards, founders, and senior executive stakeholders preferred.
• Prior life sciences or biotechnology experience preferred, but not required.

Why Join Flagship Pioneering?

This is a rare opportunity to play a critical role in shaping how a highly innovative organization rewards, supports, and scales exceptional talent. As Senior Vice President, Total Rewards and People Operations, you will operate at the intersection of business strategy, organizational design, and cutting-edge science, helping to build and evolve the people infrastructure that supports transformative work in human health and sustainability.

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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The salary range for this role is $300,000 - $400,000. 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.

Privacy Notice for Applicants: When you apply for a role at Flagship Pioneering or one of its portfolio companies, we collect and use personal information you provide (such as your name, contact details, work history, and application materials) to evaluate your application, communicate with you, and comply with legal obligations. Your application data is processed through Greenhouse, our applicant tracking system, and may also be reviewed using AI-assisted screening tools. We do not sell your personal information. California residents have rights under the CCPA/CPRA including to know, delete, and opt out of the sharing of their personal information. If you are located in the EU or UK, we process your data under GDPR and you have rights to access, rectify, and erase your data. To exercise your rights or for questions, contact privacy@flagshippioneering.com.