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Senior Manager, Scientific Discovery Capacity Planning

Lila Sciences· Corporate Development
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Cambridge, MA USA$140k - $186.7kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior leadership role overseeing capacity planning to translate demand into delivery and operations, ensuring scalable, profitable execution across AI Science Factory initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Build, own, and execute end-to-end capacity planning processes for every commercial proposal and scientific capability.
  • Translate demand forecasts into resource, staffing, and capacity plans while identifying bottlenecks and quantifying the cost and lead time to close them.
  • Maintain the authoritative record of capacity commitments across the active pipeline.
  • Define standard units of measure, batch definitions, and workflow-to-demand mappings that connect Operations, Scientific, Commercial, and Financial data into a single Integrated Business Plan.
  • Design and build the evolving toolset required to support Integrated Business Planning for the lab of the future.
  • Partner with Product and deal teams to embed capacity assessment early while informing company roadmap and strategy.
  • Distill complex, ambiguous operational data into clear recommendations for audiences ranging from individual scientists to executive leadership.

Qualifications

  • Has worked in detail across a technical, scientific, or laboratory landscape quickly and translated it into strategic processes.
  • 6-8+ years of experience in strategic finance, business or revenue operations, or operations.
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to redesign workflows and drive measurable impact.
  • Demonstrated experience building and operationalizing a planning tool, system, or process.
  • Experience defining a data model or planning framework from first principles, including units of measure and standard definitions.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional stakeholders across multiple disciplines while operating with ownership.
  • Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, engineering, operations, or a directly related technical field.

Skills

Required:Capacity planningCross-functional leadershipData modelingIntegrated Business PlanningAI tooling integrationStakeholder managementExperience with planning tools

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. employees receive medical, dental, and vision; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off with holidays; paid parental leave; educational assistance; commuter benefits; company subsidized lunch.
  • 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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