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Director of Product, Life Sciences (Chemistry)

Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA · One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA

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Bio & Science AIonsitedirector$184k–$256k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Shape vision and roadmap for therapeutics platforms accelerating new medicines.
  • Turn frontier platform capability into commercial therapeutic programs.
  • Define target product profiles across design, synthesis and scale-up.

What they offer

  • Competitive base compensation with bonus potential and early-stage equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Employer-paid life and disability insurance
  • Flexible time off with company-wide holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Educational assistance program
  • Commuter benefits and subsidized lunch

Ideal candidate

Strategic product leader fluent in drug discovery with strong chemistry judgment, energized by translating hard science into commercial therapies and partnering closely with scientists and customers to deliver impact.

Requirements

  • MS, PhD, or equivalent experience in biochemistry, protein science, medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, or related field
  • Deep understanding of drug discovery and development workflows, as well as the assays and methods that drive decision-making
  • Track record of advancing therapeutic programs from molecules toward the clinic, or of building the platforms and products that others used to do so
  • 7+ years of product leadership building and launching complex technical products
  • Strong executive communication: clear storytelling and decisions legible to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Highly collaborative leadership style, with ability to influence across research, engineering, operations, and commercial teams
  • Output- and impact-focused, driven by delivered results against mission and program goals

Lab profile

About Lila Sciences

Building an autonomous science platform where AI, automation, and biology co-evolve for medicine and materials.

What they build

  • Autonomous Science Platform
  • AI-designed biologics validated in wet-lab
  • Electro-optic materials and photonic devices

Known for

  • Large-scale automated data generation
  • High-throughput protein purification and analytics
  • Protein design and BioML modeling
  • Robotic orchestration and lab simulation
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