Lila Sciences is hiring a Director of Product, Life Sciences (Chemistry): a strategic, cross-functional product leader who shapes the vision, roadmap, and execution for platforms that accelerate the discovery and development of new medicines. Reporting to the Vice President, Head of Life Science Product, you will lead product strategy and delivery across capabilities at the intersection of molecular design and synthesis, wet-lab experimentation and automation, data and ML, and scientific intelligence.

We are hiring a product leader with real fluency in drug discovery and development, someone who understands how programs actually advance from target to candidate and what it takes to make a molecule developable. The portfolio is deliberately modality-agnostic, depth of judgment matters far more to us than which modality you built it in. That said, this role leans toward chemistry and small molecules, so you should be able to hold a credible conversation about retrosynthesis, SAR, DEL, and property optimization.

What You'll Be Building

Set the long-term product vision, roadmap, and portfolio priorities for Lila's therapeutics products; spanning antibodies, nucleic acids, targeted delivery, in vivo cell therapy, and small molecules.

Translate frontier platform capability into commercial therapeutic programs, defining target product profiles (TPPs) across design, expression and synthesis, characterization, developability, and scale-up for pharma and biotech partners.

Drive product execution from concept to launch across science, ML, automation, data engineering, and software.

Represent product to executives, scientific leaders, partners, and customers as the senior external voice for the domain.

Own commercial outcomes end-to-end: opportunity shaping, proposal development, deal closure, and revenue for the domain.

Define success metrics and milestones (technical, product, commercial) and report progress clearly to leadership.

Director of Product, Life Sciences (Chemistry)

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Benefits

Company

Lila Sciences

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