Finance Business Partner, AI & Software
Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA · One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA
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Bio & Science AIonsitesenior
At a glance
Highlights
- Partner with AI/ML leaders to turn compute and GPU spend into decisions.
- Build KPI engine and forecasts guiding cloud and AI investment allocation.
- Shape financial strategy for Scientific Superintelligence platform scale-up.
Ideal candidate
Builder-operator in strategic finance who thrives in ambiguity and partners closely with technical leaders. You love turning messy data into clear decisions and building planning processes from scratch.
Requirements
- 7 to 10+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or similar analytical roles
- Startup or scale-up experience strongly preferred
- Demonstrated zero-to-one build experience across driver-based models, annual planning, rolling forecasts, KPI dashboards, and management reporting
- Hands-on experience with technology cost management, including cloud infrastructure, compute/GPU, or AI/ML cost structures
- Strong financial acumen and accounting fluency
- Ability to work with imperfect datasets and reconcile to source systems
- Clear, concise communicator who can simplify complexity, influence cross-functionally, and present to executives and the Board
- Thrives under tight timelines and changing priorities, balancing precision with pragmatism
- Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, engineering, math, or related field
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