Responsibilities

• Lead Agios’ internal communications strategy, connecting employees to our mission, strategy, business priorities, and culture.
• Own communications and end-to-end coordination for all-company meetings and other enterprise-wide moments, including messaging, executive content, presentations, employee engagement, schedules, logistics, and execution.
• Lead the planning, programming, and operational execution of all-company, in-person gatherings (up to two per year), coordinating content, executive participation, employee experience, vendors, timelines, run-of-show, and event logistics.
• Partner closely with executive and administrative teams to coordinate company-wide communications and key employee moments, ensuring seamless execution across stakeholders, schedules, content, logistics, and other operational details.
• Serve as a trusted communications partner to senior leaders and teams across Agios, providing strategic counsel and developing clear, compelling messaging.
• Translate complex scientific, business, and organizational topics into communications that are accessible, relevant, and engaging.
• Support Agios’ corporate social media presence, contributing to channel strategy, editorial planning, and content that brings our company, science, people, culture, and patient-focused mission to external audiences.
• Support broader corporate and digital communications, identifying opportunities to thoughtfully extend stories across internal and external channels.
• Collaborate across Agios and manage external communications and event partners, as needed, to deliver high-quality work and ensure effective execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of progressive communications experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry.
• Demonstrated experience leading internal and employee communications in a complex, fast-moving organization.
• Strong operational and project management capabilities, with experience planning and executing company-wide meetings, events, or other complex employee experiences involving multiple stakeholders and logistical details.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to make complex scientific and business topics clear and engaging.
• Strong understanding of the pharmaceutical communications environment and the judgment required when communicating in a regulated industry.
• Experience supporting corporate social media and digital communications, including content development, editorial planning, and channel management.
• Strong strategic and editorial instincts, paired with a willingness to be hands-on and take work from strategy through execution.
• Excellent project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, timelines, details, vendors, and stakeholders in a dynamic environment.
• A collaborative, resourceful approach and the ability to build trusted relationships and influence across functions and levels.
• Ability to work in a hybrid environment in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area, with regular in-person collaboration and participation in key company meetings and activities.

Benefits

• Deliberate Development. Your professional growth as one of our top priorities.
• Flexibility. We’re all about individual needs. We embrace different perspectives, work styles, health and wellness approaches, care of families and productivity. When you’re at your best, we’re at our best.
• Premium benefits package. We invest in the health, wellbeing, and security of our people with a premium benefits package that is well-rounded and flexible to help meet the varied personal and professional needs of every member of our team. For more detail on the benefits we offer at Agios, visit the Inside Agios section of our website.
• Psychological safety. We support an environment of fearlessness. We want you to share your ideas, speak candidly and take data-informed risks to help push the boundaries.
• Commitment to diversity. We strive to foster a welcoming workplace where everyone can thrive. We’re continuously looking to improve the inclusivity of our workforce.
• Commitment to community. We’re an active participant in the communities that surround us – the communities where we live, and the community of people and their loved ones in need of better treatment options for conditions that are often overlooked.