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(Senior) Director, Portfolio Strategy, Life Sciences

Lila Sciences· Corporate Development
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Cambridge, MA$168k - $272kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior/Director level role focused on New Product Planning and asset strategy for Lila Origins, translating scientific vision into commercial opportunities and ventures in life sciences.

Responsibilities

  • Source and evaluate new life sciences opportunities for Origins, screening for scientific differentiation, commercial viability, and fit with Lila's platform capabilities
  • Track therapeutic area trends, modality breakthroughs, pipeline movement, and deal activity across pharma and biotech, and translate signal into actionable views for Origins
  • Match therapeutic modalities to disease areas using biological rationale, competitive landscape, and unmet need, and recommend where Origins should concentrate effort
  • Build and own market sizing, patient population, and deal economic models that inform go / no-go decisions on candidate ventures and partnerships
  • Develop target product profiles and early commercial theses for assets under consideration, in partnership with Science, Product, and Corporate Development
  • Run primary and secondary research (KOL interviews, competitor tracking, payer and clinician landscape) to stress-test assumptions and sharpen recommendations
  • Shape deal structures and partnership constructs alongside Corporate Development, translating commercial logic into terms that work for Lila and counterparties
  • Contribute to Origins' strategic thesis by synthesizing what we learn across opportunities into recommendations on therapeutic area focus, modality bets, and partnership models

Qualifications

  • 6-8+ years in new product planning, commercial assessment, asset strategy, or business development inside a pharma, biotech, or life sciences investor setting, with a track record of shaping go / no-go calls on early assets
  • Strong scientific literacy in life sciences; able to engage with Science and external KOLs and translate nuance into commercial implications
  • Demonstrated ability to match therapeutic modalities to disease areas with clear POV on biological fit and competitive landscape
  • Hands-on modeling experience: market sizing, patient population, forecasting, deal economics; comfortable building models from scratch and defending assumptions
  • Active fluency in industry trends, pipeline movement, and deal activity across pharma and biotech
  • Strong written and verbal communication; ability to distill complex analyses into crisp recommendations for senior leadership
  • Comfort operating in high ambiguity with limited oversight; bias toward building structure where none exists

Skills

Required:New product planningMarket sizingDeal economicsScientific literacy in life sciences

Benefits

  • U.S. Benefits: medical, dental, vision; life and disability insurance; flexible time off; holidays; paid parental leave; educational assistance; commuter benefits; lunch program
  • International Benefits: regionally tailored programs; USD salary ranges apply to U.S.-based positions; local market salaries for international roles
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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