Drimva

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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