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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
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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
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