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Executive Search roles on OPT sit at the intersection of business development and talent strategy, and most require a degree in business, HR, or a related field. Your 12-month OPT clock starts on your work start date, so securing sponsorship early matters. STEM OPT extensions are uncommon in this field unless your role qualifies under a designated STEM discipline.
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Flagship Pioneering is a scientific innovation engine that invents and builds companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps in human health, sustainability, and beyond.
What sets Flagship apart is our 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. Our team of scientists, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and create breakthroughs for the benefit of people and planet.
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 named four times to Fast Company's annual list of the World's Most Innovative Companies.
Position Summary
We are seeking an Executive Search Operations Analyst to join Flagship Pioneering's Talent Acquisition team. In this hands-on role, you will support executive search execution across Flagship and its portfolio companies, with a strong focus on back-end AI-focused operations, such as template creation for reporting and content support. The ideal candidate is highly proactive, organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable using AI-enabled tools to build and refine recruiting materials, streamline documentation and enable workflows to move with precision and urgency.
Key Responsibilities
- Recruiting operations & coordination
- Support day-to-day search execution by creating, maintaining and updating materials and internal documentation using AI-forward tools and workflows
- Create and refine templates for job descriptions, status updates, candidate reports, debrief materials, and other executive search documents to ensure consistency across recruitment-related projects
- Partner with recruiters to keep workstreams organized and efficient, action items clear, and deadlines on track
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date records and candidate data to support consistent project management and execution across active searches
- Ensure accurate and timely entry of candidate data, search activity, and status updates in Greenhouse ATS to maintain data integrity for current and future recruitment and pipelining efforts
AI-Enabled Execution
- Use AI-enabled tools to improve speed, quality, and consistency of routine search operations, template development, reporting, and written communication
- Apply new tools and techniques to strengthen workflow organization, summarization, and documentation
- Stay current on internal Flagship priorities and business needs that affect executive search and talent acquisition workflows
Reporting, Data, and Workflow Support
- Leverage AI-enabled tools and templates to build and maintain dashboards, trackers, and recurring reporting that provide actionable insights into executive search activity, candidate pipelines, and search progress. Prepare client-ready candidate summaries, search updates, and other documentation to support assessment and decision-making
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual work and improve process efficiency through better use of systems, templates, and automation
Internal Stakeholder Support
- Proactively communicate and provide professional support to internal stakeholders throughout the executive search life cycle
- Support a high-touch internal experience by ensuring accurate information, timely follow-up, and smooth workflow execution
- Maintain confidentiality and discretion at all times
Required Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in recruiting coordination, executive search support, talent operations, or a related administrative role
- Bachelor's degree required
- Comfortable using AI-enabled tools to update trackers, maintain documentation, and support operational workflows
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Experience with Greenhouse or a similar applicant tracking system
- Excellent organizational skills and meticulous attention to detail
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment
- High degree of integrity, discretion, and trustworthiness
- Fluency in using data, dashboards, and reporting to track activity and surface insights
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting executive search or senior-level recruiting in a matrixed organization
- Track record in project management including building reports or dashboards to track search activity and candidate movement
- Demonstrated ability to use AI tools to improve operational workflows and communication
- Strong judgment, resourcefulness, and a proactive approach to solving problems
- Ability to build credibility and engage effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders and audiences, including senior executives
Equal Opportunity Employer
Flagship Pioneering is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
The salary range for this role is $76,000 - $104,000. 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.
INTRODUCTION
Flagship Pioneering is a scientific innovation engine that invents and builds companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps in human health, sustainability, and beyond.
What sets Flagship apart is our 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. Our team of scientists, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and create breakthroughs for the benefit of people and planet.
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 named four times to Fast Company's annual list of the World's Most Innovative Companies.
Position Summary
We are seeking an Executive Search Operations Analyst to join Flagship Pioneering's Talent Acquisition team. In this hands-on role, you will support executive search execution across Flagship and its portfolio companies, with a strong focus on back-end AI-focused operations, such as template creation for reporting and content support. The ideal candidate is highly proactive, organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable using AI-enabled tools to build and refine recruiting materials, streamline documentation and enable workflows to move with precision and urgency.
Key Responsibilities
- Recruiting operations & coordination
- Support day-to-day search execution by creating, maintaining and updating materials and internal documentation using AI-forward tools and workflows
- Create and refine templates for job descriptions, status updates, candidate reports, debrief materials, and other executive search documents to ensure consistency across recruitment-related projects
- Partner with recruiters to keep workstreams organized and efficient, action items clear, and deadlines on track
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date records and candidate data to support consistent project management and execution across active searches
- Ensure accurate and timely entry of candidate data, search activity, and status updates in Greenhouse ATS to maintain data integrity for current and future recruitment and pipelining efforts
AI-Enabled Execution
- Use AI-enabled tools to improve speed, quality, and consistency of routine search operations, template development, reporting, and written communication
- Apply new tools and techniques to strengthen workflow organization, summarization, and documentation
- Stay current on internal Flagship priorities and business needs that affect executive search and talent acquisition workflows
Reporting, Data, and Workflow Support
- Leverage AI-enabled tools and templates to build and maintain dashboards, trackers, and recurring reporting that provide actionable insights into executive search activity, candidate pipelines, and search progress. Prepare client-ready candidate summaries, search updates, and other documentation to support assessment and decision-making
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual work and improve process efficiency through better use of systems, templates, and automation
Internal Stakeholder Support
- Proactively communicate and provide professional support to internal stakeholders throughout the executive search life cycle
- Support a high-touch internal experience by ensuring accurate information, timely follow-up, and smooth workflow execution
- Maintain confidentiality and discretion at all times
Required Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in recruiting coordination, executive search support, talent operations, or a related administrative role
- Bachelor's degree required
- Comfortable using AI-enabled tools to update trackers, maintain documentation, and support operational workflows
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Experience with Greenhouse or a similar applicant tracking system
- Excellent organizational skills and meticulous attention to detail
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment
- High degree of integrity, discretion, and trustworthiness
- Fluency in using data, dashboards, and reporting to track activity and surface insights
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting executive search or senior-level recruiting in a matrixed organization
- Track record in project management including building reports or dashboards to track search activity and candidate movement
- Demonstrated ability to use AI tools to improve operational workflows and communication
- Strong judgment, resourcefulness, and a proactive approach to solving problems
- Ability to build credibility and engage effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders and audiences, including senior executives
Equal Opportunity Employer
Flagship Pioneering is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
The salary range for this role is $76,000 - $104,000. 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.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship in Executive Search
Target boutique executive search firms
Boutique firms hire OPT students more readily than large retained search houses. Smaller teams value research and business development skills immediately, and partners often have more flexibility to navigate work authorization without a dedicated HR bureaucracy.
Frame your role as a specialty occupation
H-1B visa sponsorship requires your role to qualify as a specialty occupation. Document how your position requires a specific bachelor's degree in business, HR, or a related field. Generic recruiting titles sometimes get challenged, so specificity in your job description protects you.
Start H-1B conversations before month eight
Your employer must file your H-1B petition by April 1 for an October 1 start. If your OPT expires before October, you may need a cap-gap bridge. Beginning discussions with your employer by month eight gives enough time to prepare.
Prioritize firms with prior sponsorship history
Employers who have sponsored H-1B visas before understand the process and cost. Ask recruiters directly whether the firm has sponsored candidates previously. A firm with no history faces a steeper learning curve, which increases the risk of delays or denials.
Demonstrate measurable search outcomes
Executive search is results-driven. Quantify placements made, pipeline built, and client retention during your OPT period. Concrete numbers make your value undeniable when a firm is deciding whether to invest in sponsorship, which typically involves legal and filing costs.
Use Migrate Mate to find sponsorship-open employers
Many executive search firms never publicly disclose sponsorship willingness in job postings. Migrate Mate surfaces roles from employers verified to be open to OPT and visa sponsorship, saving you time and reducing the chance of pursuing dead-end applications.
Executive Search OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can I work in executive search on OPT?
Yes, executive search roles qualify for OPT as long as the position is directly related to your field of study. A degree in business, human resources, organizational psychology, or a related discipline typically satisfies this requirement. You must work at least 20 hours per week to remain in valid OPT status, and your role must be authorized before your start date.
Do executive search firms commonly sponsor H-1B visas?
Some do, but it varies significantly by firm size and prior experience with work authorization. Boutique executive search firms that have previously sponsored candidates are your best targets. OFLC disclosure data shows search and staffing firms do file H-1B petitions, though less frequently than consulting or technology employers. Use Migrate Mate to identify firms actively open to sponsorship rather than cold-applying broadly.
Does an executive search role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It can, but the title alone is not sufficient. USCIS evaluates whether the specific duties require a bachelor's degree in a particular field. Roles centered on research, client advisory, or talent strategy tied to a specific industry vertical are stronger candidates. Roles framed as general recruiting without a field-specific degree requirement face higher scrutiny. Your employer's attorney should document the connection carefully.
Can executive search roles qualify for a STEM OPT extension?
Rarely. STEM OPT extensions require your degree to appear on the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List and your role to directly apply that STEM discipline. Most business and HR degrees do not qualify. If your degree is in a STEM field, such as industrial engineering or data science, and your executive search role involves applying that expertise, a case can potentially be made, but it requires strong documentation and employer agreement to the formal training plan.
What happens to my OPT authorization if I switch employers during my executive search placement period?
OPT is not employer-specific, so you can change employers without notifying USCIS in advance. However, you must report the change to your DSO within 10 days through your school's SEVIS portal. Any gap in employment exceeding 90 cumulative days during your OPT period can jeopardize your status. If you are transitioning between firms, timing your start date carefully to avoid extended gaps is important.