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Director of Product, Life Sciences (Chemistry)

Lila Sciences· Corporate Development
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Cambridge, MA$184k - $256kfull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Strategic, cross-functional product leader shaping vision, roadmap, and execution for platforms accelerating drug discovery and development, with a focus on chemistry and small molecules.

Responsibilities

  • Set the long-term product vision, roadmap, and portfolio priorities for Lila's therapeutics products; spanning antibodies, nucleic acids, targeted delivery, in vivo cell therapy, and small molecules.
  • Translate frontier platform capability into commercial therapeutic programs, defining target product profiles (TPPs) across design, expression and synthesis, characterization, developability, and scale-up for pharma and biotech partners.
  • Drive product execution from concept to launch across science, ML, automation, data engineering, and software.
  • 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.
  • Define success metrics and milestones (technical, product, commercial) and report progress clearly to leadership.

Qualifications

  • MS, PhD, or equivalent experience in biochemistry, protein science, medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, or related field
  • Deep understanding of drug discovery and development workflows; as well as the assays and methods that drive decision-making
  • Track record of advancing therapeutic programs from molecules toward the clinic, or of building the platforms and products that others used to do so.
  • 7+ years of product leadership (PM, Group PM, Product Lead) building and launching complex technical products: therapeutic platforms, scientific software or hardware, simulation and modeling platforms, data products, or ML-enabled systems.
  • Strong executive communication: clear storytelling and decisions legible to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Highly collaborative leadership style, with the ability to influence across research, engineering, operations, and commercial teams.
  • Output- and impact-focused, driven by delivered results against mission and program goals.

Skills

Required:Biochemistry / Protein science / Medicinal chemistryProduct leadershipExecutive communication

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. benefits: medical, dental, vision; employer-paid life and disability; flexible time off; paid parental leave; educational assistance; commuter benefits; lunch program
  • International benefits tailored to region; USD salary ranges apply to U.S.-based positions; international salaries set to local market.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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