Associate Director / Director, Customer Program Management, Life Sciences

Lila Sciences
Cambridge
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 148,000 - 224,000 annuallyFunction: Executive & General ManagementSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Stakeholder management","Project management","Influence"]

Senior-level program management leader responsible for planning, executing, and delivering therapeutic programs on the Lila platform. Leads cross-functional teams (science, engineering, automation) and maintains partner-facing governance and communication with pharmaceutical partners, focusing on timelines, resourcing, risk, and milestones across complex multidisciplinary programs.

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Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences
6 months ago

Associate Director / Director, Customer Program Management, Life Sciences

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Job Summary

Senior-level program management leader responsible for planning, executing, and delivering therapeutic programs on the Lila platform. Leads cross-functional teams (science, engineering, automation) and maintains partner-facing governance and communication with pharmaceutical partners, focusing on timelines, resourcing, risk, and milestones across complex multidisciplinary programs.
Location: Cambridge
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own end-to-end project management for active therapeutic programs, including timeline development, resource coordination, milestone tracking, and dependency management across product, science, machine learning and automation teams
  • •Drive day-to-day execution discipline; ensuring that internal teams have clear priorities, deliverables, and decision points, and that blockers are identified and resolved quickly
  • •Manage resource allocation discussions and trade-off decisions across a complex set of priorities (e.g., balancing experiments between AI model training and near-term partnership deliverables)
  • •Establish and maintain program-level reporting, including status updates, milestone tracking, and resource utilization views for internal leadership and external deliverables
  • •Proactively identify, communicate, and manage program risks, escalating appropriately and ensuring transparency with scientific and executive leadership

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 148,000 - 224,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Annual BonusEquity

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry in roles associated with drug discovery or development, project management, or operations
  • •5+ years in program management, project management, or a similar cross-functional coordination role with direct responsibility for timelines, resourcing, and tracking
  • •Demonstrated ability to independently drive execution across complex, multidisciplinary programs with significant scientific and commercial stakes
  • •Strong understanding of drug discovery and development processes; ability to engage credibly with scientific stakeholders and communicate at a high level across therapeutic and technical domains
  • •Experience managing programs with external partners, including milestone management, governance, and stakeholder communication
Experience:PharmaceuticalBiotechnologyDrug discovery
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipStakeholder managementProject managementInfluence
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AIMachine learningLLMs

Company Brief

Lila Sciences
Develops AI-driven platforms to accelerate drug discovery and biological research by integrating machine learning with chemical and biological data to predict molecular properties, streamline candidate selection, and enable faster therapeutic development.
Industry: Biotech
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Funding: Seed
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