Director / Senior Director, Origins

Alewife, Cambridge, MAfull timeOn Site

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senior

$168k–$272k

H1B: no

Lila Sciences The Director / Senior Director, Origins at Lilasciences builds and manages relationships with deep-tech and life-sciences investors and institutions. This role leads partnership engagements and represents Origins as a trusted senior voice externally.

Responsibilities

A founding role building the commercial engine of one of the most ambitious AI-for-science platforms ever built
Direct access to the world's most prominent deep-tech and life-sciences investors and institutions
Genuine partnership-building with scale and consequence
A platform to shape how the world thinks about AI-driven scientific discovery and autonomous science
What You'll Be Building
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

Qualification

DeepExceptional interpersonal judgmentComfort operating in fast-movingGlobal institutional relationships

Required

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

Preferred

Prior role at a science-focused company or fund
Experience negotiating large partnerships or transactions
Global institutional relationships; familiarity with foreign investment or export control dynamics