Lila Sciences
(Senior) Director, Portfolio Strategy, Life Sciences
$168K–$272K
Cambridge, MA USA +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted May 26, 2026
- Location
- Cambridge, MA USA
One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA - Experience
- 6-8+ years; no alternative stated.
About the job
Evaluates and shapes early-stage life sciences opportunities for Lila Origins, translating scientific, market, and deal analysis into venture, partnership, and portfolio recommendations.
What you'll do
- Source and assess opportunities, match modalities to disease areas, and recommend therapeutic priorities.
- Build market, patient population, forecasting, and deal-economics models to inform go/no-go decisions.
- Conduct research and help develop asset commercial theses, partnership structures, and Origins strategy.
What they ask for
- 6-8+ years in new product planning, commercial assessment, asset strategy, or business development in pharma, biotech, or a life sciences investor setting, with a track record shaping go/no-go calls on early assets.
- Strong scientific literacy in life sciences, including therapeutics, modalities, and disease biology.
- Demonstrated ability to match therapeutic modalities to disease areas using biological fit, unmet need, and competitive landscape.
- Hands-on modeling experience in market sizing, patient population, forecasting, and deal economics.
Nice to have
- Advanced life sciences degree or an MBA with deep life sciences focus.
- Hands-on use of AI tools; experience with partnership models, joint ventures, or NewCo formation.
Pay
$168,000 — $272,000 USD (base salary)
AI focus
Bonus: use AI tools for market research, competitor tracking, modeling, and synthesis, and bring a perspective on AI’s effects on drug discovery and asset creation.
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