Company Overview
Tango Therapeutics is a biotechnology company dedicated to discovering novel drug targets and delivering the next generation of precision medicine for the treatment of cancer.
Using an approach that starts and ends with patients, Tango leverages the genetic principle of synthetic lethality to discover and develop therapies that take aim at critical targets in cancer.
This includes expanding the universe of precision oncology targets into novel areas such as tumor suppressor gene loss and their contribution to the ability of cancer cells to evade immune cell killing.
The Tango labs and offices are located at 201 Brookline Avenue, in the Fenway area of Boston, Massachusetts
Your Role:
- You will be Tango’s receptionist, and will be the first person they see and will great all visitors, answer phones; screen and direct calls as appropriate
- Register all incoming guests and manage guest reservation system in collaboration with the building security team
- Order and set up office lunches once a week; pick and set up lunches for all internal and external meetings
- Upkeep and stocking of the kitchen including ordering weekly groceries and happy hour items
- General office support, such as triaging questions, assisting with room booking and meeting scheduling ordering office supplies, and maintaining conference rooms
- Troubleshoot AV issues
- Assist with planning of events as needed
- New hire onboarding including providing an office overview to all new hires as well as maintaining office onboarding documents
- Serve as liaison between admin, IT, and Facilities teams; ensure updates are provided among teams as needed
- Assist with troubleshooting for issues related to the visitor check-in process, guest wifi, meeting room management in Outlook, etc.
- Coordinate with Facilities on year-end office shutdown
- Identify areas of improvement in office processes and assist with implementing solutions
- Create and maintain documentation for office systems
- Additional duties and responsibilities as requested
What You Bring:
- 1-3 years of related administrative assistant experience preferred; no previous experience is required
- Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint required
- Ability to learn how to troubleshoot Audio/Visual (A/V) issues in the office
- Must be ambitious, eager, a fast-learner, willing and able to perform in a fast-paced and dynamic, professional environment
- Excellent organizational skills with strong attention-to-detail with the ability to effectively multi-task are essential
- Demonstrated flexibility and professional maturity to readily understand priorities and anticipate needs
- Have a great “can do” attitude and team player
- You have a naturally welcoming and hospitable approach
- Must be able to take initiative and follow through as well as maintain confidential information
- Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Top Skills
What We Do
Tango Therapeutics is a biotechnology company discovering and developing novel medicines targeting cancer vulnerabilities to deliver transformational new therapies for patients.
Tango was launched in 2017 with a $55 million Series A investment from Third Rock Ventures. The company has established a robust product engine that leverages advances in DNA sequencing and CRISPR-based target discovery to generate breakthrough medicines that have the potential to provide deeper, more sustained benefit than today’s targeted therapies, and extend the benefit of available immuno-oncology agents.
Tango Therapeutics is focused on three areas of drug development, each in well-defined patient populations currently lacking effective treatment options, and each with hallmarks of cancer that have not been targeted yet. These include: loss of tumor suppressor gene function; multiple oncogenic drivers; and immune evasion.
What fuels each of Tango’s programs is an increasingly sophisticated ability to utilize synthetic lethality - the interaction between two genes that causes cell death when both are inactivated. In cancer cells, one of these genes is inactivated by mutation; the other will be inactivated by a drug. This approach leaves normal cells largely unaffected, with the potential to greatly enhance anti-tumor efficacy and reduce associated toxicity.
Tango’s success will be driven by its depth of understanding of the genetic subtypes of cancer, and corresponding insights into novel drug targets and combinations uniquely relevant to each subtype. By shaping discovery efforts in this way, Tango has the potential to reach the clinic quickly, and with a clear plan for identifying the patients most likely to benefit from each new treatment, an approach that could increase both speed and probability of success in translating novel target discoveries into transformational new medicines for patients.
