Director/ Senior Director, Product, Materials Chemistry
Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA · One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA
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Bio & Science AIonsitedirector$168k–$272k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead product vision for materials-chemistry platform accelerating discovery.
- Translate frontier chemistry into commercial materials programs for partners.
- Own commercial outcomes from opportunity shaping to deal closure and revenue.
What they offer
- Competitive base compensation with bonus potential
- Generous early-stage equity
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance
- Flexible time off with company holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Educational assistance program
- Company subsidized lunch program
Ideal candidate
A strategic product leader and fluent synthetic or polymer chemist who loves translating complex science into commercial impact. Customer-facing, collaborative, and driven by measurable outcomes across research and business.
Requirements
- MS, PhD, or equivalent experience in synthetic organic or polymer chemistry with bench fluency
- Track record translating organic/polymer chemistry to commercialized materials products
- 7+ years of product leadership building and launching complex technical products
- Deep understanding of chemistry and materials R&D workflows including iteration and scale-up
- Strong executive communication for technical and non-technical audiences
- Highly collaborative leadership style across research, engineering, operations and commercial
- Output- and impact-focused, driven by delivered results
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