Chief of Staff to the CEO

Lila Sciences
Cambridge
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Business OperationsExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Strategic thinking","Executive collaboration","Emotional intelligence"]

Partner with the Founder and CEO to advance strategic and operational priorities at a science-driven AI company. Serve as a senior operator, coordinating strategy, execution, and external engagement across the executive team; build the company’s operating system, align leadership cadence, and prepare for board and investor interactions.

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Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences
3 months ago

Chief of Staff to the CEO

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Job Summary

Partner with the Founder and CEO to advance strategic and operational priorities at a science-driven AI company. Serve as a senior operator, coordinating strategy, execution, and external engagement across the executive team; build the company’s operating system, align leadership cadence, and prepare for board and investor interactions.
Location: Cambridge
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Business Operations

Key Responsibilities

  • •Run the leadership team’s operating rhythm: quarterly and annual planning, KPI reviews, and follow-through; ensure priorities that actually move the company are tracked and executed.
  • •Partner with the strategy function to turn the company’s hardest questions into clear plans and priorities the leadership team can act on.
  • •Design how the CEO and executive team spends its time, from agendas to decisions to follow-up, so the highest-leverage questions get attention.
  • •Own the prep for board meetings, investor updates, and fundraising; turn the company’s progress into materials that land and ensure the CEO is ready.
  • •Act as the connective tissue between the CEO, the executive team, and the wider company; move context and decisions quickly and ensure nothing important falls through.

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of progressive experience, including time as a Chief of Staff, function head, or senior operator at a high-growth company, with experience building and running a company’s operating system, ideally in an AI or science-driven environment.
  • •Technical fluency in a scientific or AI domain; able to engage with researchers and translate complex science for broader audiences. Advanced training is a plus.
  • •Comfort operating without a playbook in an early-stage, fast-moving environment; thrives in ambiguity and complex problems.
  • •Strong systems thinking with rigorous follow-through, moving from strategy to detail without dropping critical steps.
  • •Ability to challenge executives on priorities, align teams, build trust, and communicate effectively (high emotional intelligence and exceptional written/oral communication).
Experience:8+ yearsAILife sciencesTechnology
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationStrategic thinkingExecutive collaborationEmotional intelligence
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AI

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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