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Executive Assistant

BioSpace
Cambridge, MA
Why Join Intellia?

Our mission is to develop curative genome editing treatments that can positively transform the lives of people living with severe and life-threatening diseases.

Beyond our science, we live our four core values: One, Explore, Disrupt, Deliver and feel strongly that you can achieve more at Intellia. We have a single-minded determination to excel and succeed together. We believe in the power of curiosity and pushing boundaries. We welcome challenging thoughts and imagination to develop innovative solutions. And we know that patients are counting on us to make the promise a reality, so we must maintain high standards and get it done.

We wantall ofour people to go beyond what is possible. We aren’t constrained by typical end rails, and we aren’t out to just “treat” people. We’re all in this for something more. We’re driven to cure and motivated for change. Just imagine the possibilities of what we can do together.

How You Will Achieve More

Intellia is seeking a highly skilled and proactive Executive Assistant to support the dynamic and expanding commercial organization, including the SVP of Commercial and key members of the commercial leadership team. As a trusted partner to the commercial leadership team, this role plays a critical part in enabling effective time management, streamlined communication, and seamless execution of strategic and operational priorities.

The Executive Assistant will engage regularly with the Executive Leadership Team, senior internal stakeholders, and external partners, representing the Commercial function with professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment. Success in this role requires exceptional organizational capability, the ability to anticipate needs, and comfort navigating a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Primary responsibilities include managing complex and shifting calendars, coordinating meetings with internal and external stakeholders, supporting the weekly commercial leadership team staff meetings, and supporting time‑sensitive initiatives and projects. The ideal candidate excels at balancing multiple priorities, communicates with clarity, is proactive anticipating the needs of the various leaders and operates with the highest level of confidentiality and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

Administrative Support

  • Manage complex calendars, schedule meetings, and coordinate travel arrangements for the Commercial Leadership Team (6 leaders).
  • Effectively handles expense reporting and invoice processing.
  • Prepare and edit presentations, and reports.

Meeting & Event Coordination

  • Organize leadership meetings, including agenda preparation, slide development, materials distribution, and minute-taking.
  • Coordinate logistics for internal and external events, conferences, and offsites.

Communication & Liaison

  • Ensure timely and accurate communication between leadership and commercial teams.
  • Collaborate with other Executive Assistants to maintain smooth office operations.
  • Support the onboarding of new employees.

Project & Operational Support

  • Support special projects as assigned, ensuring confidentiality and accuracy.

About You

You are an experienced Executive Assistant who takes direction well, operates proactively, and consistently anticipates the needs of multiple leaders. You bring exceptional organizational discipline, excel at managing competing priorities, and remain steady and effective in a fast‑paced, rapidly evolving environment.

You have strong interpersonal and communication skills, and you uphold the highest standards of accuracy, attention to detail, and data integrity in all aspects of your work. You ideally bring prior experience supporting Commercial teams or senior leaders within a Commercial organization. Proficiency in MS Office applications—particularly PowerPoint and Excel—is highly preferred.

  • Proactive & Resourceful: Anticipates needs and takes initiative.
  • Detail-Oriented: Ensures accuracy in all tasks and deliverables.
  • Collaborative: Builds strong relationships across teams.
  • Confidentiality: Ability to exercise sound judgment, maintain confidentiality, and manage competing priorities.
  • Communication: Exceptional communication skills; ability to articulate a point of view succinctly and effectively to senior leaders
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum 5+ years of experience supporting senior executives in a corporate environment.
  • Experience supporting commercial functions in pre-commercial companies is preferred.
  • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and collaboration tools (Teams, SharePoint, etc.).
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Meet Your Future Team

This role reports directly to the Senior Vice President, Commercial, and is part of a team with deep experience across all commercial functions—including Marketing, Market Access, Patient Services, Payer Accounts & Distribution, Sales, and Commercial Operations—bringing diverse expertise together to drive Intellia’s vision and strategy forward.

Covid-19 Vaccination Policy: All Intellia employees, regardless of work location, are expected to follow all applicable federal, state, and local public health regulations and guidelines, and are strongly encouraged to follow all public health recommendations, including being vaccinated for COVID-19.

EEOC Statement: Intellia believes in a diverse environment, and is committed to equal employment opportunity for all its employees and qualified applicants. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Intellia will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, and will continue to be accepted until the position is filled at which point the position will be taken down.

The base salary for this position is expected to range between $106,036.00 - $129,600.00 USD per year.

The salary offered is determined based on a range of factors including, but not limited to, relevant education and training, overall related experience, specialized, rare or in-demand skill sets, internal comparators and other business needs. Upon joining Intellia, your salary will be reviewed periodically and additional factors such as time in role and performance will be considered. Intellia may change the published salary range based on company and market factors.

Additional compensation includes a performance-based annual cash bonus, a new hire equity grant, and eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards the value of which are determined annually at the Company’s discretion.

For more information about Intellia’s benefits, please click here.

Posted 2026-02-23

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