Lila Sciences
Director of Product, Life Sciences (Chemistry)
$184K–$256K
Cambridge, MA USA +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2025
- Location
- Cambridge, MA USA
One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA - Experience
- 7+ years of product leadership; also requires a track record advancing therapeutic programs toward the clinic or building platforms and products used to do so.
- Education
- MS, PhD, or equivalent experience in biochemistry, protein science, medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, or a related field.
About the job
Leads product strategy, execution, and commercial outcomes for therapeutics discovery platforms spanning chemistry, laboratory automation, data, and machine learning.
What you'll do
- Set product vision, roadmap, portfolio priorities, and success metrics for therapeutics products.
- Drive cross-functional product development from concept to launch and represent the domain to customers, partners, and executives.
- Own commercial outcomes, including opportunity shaping, proposals, deal closure, and revenue.
What they ask for
- MS, PhD, or equivalent experience in a relevant field, such as biochemistry, protein science, medicinal chemistry, or chemical biology.
- Deep understanding of drug discovery and development workflows and decision-making assays and methods.
- Track record advancing therapeutic programs toward the clinic or building platforms and products used to do so.
- 7+ years of product leadership building and launching complex technical products.
Nice to have
- Experience with automated or self-driving labs and ML approaches relevant to drug discovery and molecular science.
- Following developments in LLMs and other AI solutions, with views on their impact on scientific discovery and product development.
Pay
$184,000 — $256,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
ML, LLMs
AI focus
Leads products at the intersection of molecular design and synthesis, wet-lab experimentation and automation, data and ML, and scientific intelligence; the company builds AI systems for autonomous scientific discovery.
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