Lila Sciences
Senior Manager, Scientific Discovery Capacity Planning
$140K–$187K
Cambridge, MA USA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Location
- Cambridge, MA USA
One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA - Experience
- 6-8+ years in strategic finance, business or revenue operations, or operations.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, engineering, operations, or a directly related technical field.
About the job
Leads capacity planning that translates commercial demand into resource, staffing, and operational plans for Lila Sciences’ scientific capabilities and AI Science Factories.
What you'll do
- Build and run capacity-planning processes for commercial proposals and scientific capabilities, tracking capacity commitments across the pipeline.
- Translate demand forecasts into resource and staffing plans; identify bottlenecks and estimate the cost and lead time to address them.
- Establish planning definitions, data models, tools, and cross-functional processes that connect operational, scientific, commercial, and financial data.
What they ask for
- 6-8+ years of experience in strategic finance, business or revenue operations, or operations.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools into workflow redesign and achieve measurable impact.
- Experience building and operationalizing a planning tool, system, or process, and defining a data model or planning framework from first principles.
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, engineering, operations, or a directly related technical field.
Nice to have
- Experience establishing a capacity or resource planning function from scratch.
- Advanced technical expertise in deep-tech, biotech, life sciences, or AI/platform businesses.
Pay
$140,000 — $186,667 USD (base salary)
Tools
AI
AI focus
Integrate AI tools to redesign workflows and drive measurable impact; the role also supports capacity planning for AI Science Factories.
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