Director / Senior Director, Origins
Cambridge, MA$168k - $272kfull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Senior leadership role focused on building and managing strategic partnerships with deep-tech and life-sciences investors and institutions to advance Origins' portfolio within Lila Sciences.
Responsibilities
- Open and build relationships with deep-tech and life-sciences investors, science-focused venture and growth funds, asset managers, and family offices aligned with Origins' thesis and Lila's mission
- Build and own a sophisticated partner pipeline, identifying, qualifying, and prioritizing relationships most likely to become long-term strategic partners
- Maintain active intelligence on each relationship, their investment thesis, portfolio interests, decision-making dynamics, and evolving strategic priorities in service of both Origins partnerships and Lila's broader capital relationships
- Co-lead engagements alongside the Head of Origins, from initial outreach through signed partnership, managing relationship momentum and ensuring the right stakeholders are at the table
- Represent Origins as a trusted, senior voice externally, protecting Lila's reputation, demonstrating scientific credibility, and positioning Origins as a sophisticated, mission-driven partner
- Steward and grow relationships over time, maintaining engagement and expanding each partner's commitment to the Origins portfolio as it matures
- Contribute strategic judgment to structuring and negotiation where your external perspective, relationships, and deal fluency add value
- Shape Origins' partnership positioning by synthesizing feedback from partners into recommendations on how we should present our capabilities, thesis, and deal opportunities
Qualifications
- Deep, active network across deep-tech investors, life-sciences investors, science-focused funds, or sophisticated family offices
- Scientific fluency sufficient to engage credibly with technical partners and represent Lila's platform with authority
- Understanding of how institutional investors think, what they care about, and how partnerships work
- Exceptional interpersonal judgment. You read contexts well, build trust quickly, know when to push and when to listen
- Track record of opening new relationships and the discipline to maintain and grow them over years
- Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
Skills
Required:Relationship building and managementStrategic negotiation and deal fluency
Benefits
- Full compensation package with base + bonus potential + generous equity
- U.S. benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; flexible time off; paid parental leave; educational assistance; commuter benefits; lunch program
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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