Director, Enterprise Account Management, Life Sciences
Cambridge, MA$168k - $272kfull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Senior individual contributor responsible for a named portfolio of top 20 pharma accounts, owning end-to-end revenue and multi-year account strategy for Lila Sciences' platform in life sciences.
Responsibilities
- Own a named portfolio of top 20 pharma accounts end to end, with direct accountability for revenue
- Build and execute multi-year account strategies covering expansion, whitespace, and renewal
- Establish and maintain executive relationships at the R&D leadership and C-suite level
- Lead complex, multi-quarter pursuits across discovery, translational, platform, data and AI, and BD and licensing stakeholders
- Negotiate and close large enterprise agreements, working with legal, finance, and procurement
- Maintain accurate forecasts and surface tradeoffs, priorities, and risks to Lila's leadership team
- Partner with product and science to scope high-value engagements and unblock technical inputs
- Own technical RFI and DDQ response for strategic accounts, packaging polished customer-facing deliverables
- Shape enterprise commercial strategy, including qualification standards, deal structures, and pricing input
- Translate the AI and life sciences partnership landscape into implications for Lila's positioning
Qualifications
- 10+ years in enterprise sales, business development, or commercial leadership, including ownership of strategic accounts
- Track record closing large, multi-quarter enterprise agreements with top 20 pharma or comparable accounts
- Degree in biology, chemistry, biochemistry, bioengineering, or adjacent fields, or equivalent experience
- Fluency across the pharma R&D value chain, from discovery through early development
- Proven executive presence with R&D leadership and C-suite buyers
- Ability to translate AI and autonomous lab capability into credible scientific and commercial narratives
- Comfortable operating where the category, product, and commercial motion are still being defined
- Hands-on use of AI tools in daily work
Skills
Required:Enterprise sales managementExecutive stakeholder management
Benefits
- Comprehensive U.S. benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- Flexible time off with company holidays; paid parental leave
- Educational assistance program; commuter benefits; bike share memberships; subsidized lunch program
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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