(Senior) Director, Product, Electronic Materials

Lila Sciences
Cambridge
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 168,000 - 272,000 annuallyFunction: Executive & General ManagementExperience: 7+ yearsEducation: phdSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Strategic thinking","Collaboration","Storytelling"]

Strategic, cross-functional product leadership shaping the vision, roadmap, and delivery for Lila’s Physical Sciences platform. Lead product strategy across physical-science workflows, simulation, lab automation, data/ML, and external partnerships, driving proposals, deal closure, and revenue while translating complex science into actionable product direction for customers and internal teams.

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Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences
3 months ago

(Senior) Director, Product, Electronic Materials

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Job Summary

Strategic, cross-functional product leadership shaping the vision, roadmap, and delivery for Lila’s Physical Sciences platform. Lead product strategy across physical-science workflows, simulation, lab automation, data/ML, and external partnerships, driving proposals, deal closure, and revenue while translating complex science into actionable product direction for customers and internal teams.
Location: Cambridge
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set the long-term product vision, roadmap, and portfolio priorities for Lila's Physical Sciences portfolio.
  • •Define product strategy and target product profiles (TPPs) for physical-science workflows: materials design, formulation, characterization, reliability, scale-up.
  • •Drive product execution from concept to launch across physical sciences, simulation, automation, data engineering, and ML.
  • •Represent product to executives, scientific leaders, partners, and customers as the senior external voice for the domain.
  • •Own commercial outcomes end-to-end: opportunity shaping, proposal development, deal closure, and revenue for the domain.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 168,000 - 272,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityEducation AssistanceCommuter BenefitsMeal Allowance

Key Requirements

  • •MS, PhD, or equivalent experience in physical sciences (materials science, chemistry, physics, chemical or mechanical engineering, related fields)
  • •7+ years of product leadership (PM, Group PM, Product Lead) building and launching complex technical products: scientific software or hardware, simulation platforms, data products, ML-enabled systems
  • •Deep understanding of physical-science R&D workflows: experimental iteration, instrumentation, data quality, scale-up constraints
  • •Strong executive communication: clear storytelling and decisions legible to technical and non-technical audiences
  • •Highly collaborative leadership style; influences across research, engineering, operations, and commercial teams
Experience:7+ yearsPhysical sciencesScientific softwareHardwareML-enabled systemsSimulation
Education:PhD / Doctorate
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationStrategic thinkingCollaborationStorytelling
Languages:English
Tech Stack:SimulationMLData engineeringLLMsAgentic systemsLab automation

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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