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About the role
Lila Sciences is hiring a Director/ Senior Director, Product, Materials Chemistry: a strategic, cross-functional product leader who shapes the vision, roadmap, and execution for platforms that accelerate the discovery and development of new materials.
What they're looking for
- Track record of translating organic/polymer chemistry from molecules to commercialized materials products
- Deep understanding of chemistry and materials R&D workflows: experimental iteration, instrumentation, data quality, and scale-up constraints
- Strong executive communication: clear storytelling and decisions legible to technical and non-technical audiences
- Highly collaborative leadership style, with the ability to influence across research, engineering, operations, and commercial teams
- Output- and impact-focused, driven by delivered results against mission and program goals
More about this role
Lila Sciences is hiring a Director/ Senior Director, Product, Materials Chemistry: a strategic, cross-functional product leader who shapes the vision, roadmap, and execution for platforms that accelerate the discovery and development of new materials. Reporting to the Head of Physical Science Product, you will lead product strategy and delivery across capabilities at the intersection of synthetic and materials chemistry, simulation and physics-based modeling, lab automation, data and ML, and scientific intelligence.
This role requires strong leadership, crisp prioritization, and the ability to translate complex chemistry into clear product direction and measurable outcomes for internal teams, partners, and customers. You will be deeply customer- facing, serving as a trusted technical and product voice with prospects and partners, shaping proposals, driving commercial conversations, and closing deals that bring Lila's materials chemistry platform to market. We are hiring a product focused chemist who speaks the language of organic synthesis and/or polymer chemistry, not a medicinal chemist whose pull-through is therapeutic small molecules.
- Set the long-term product vision,...
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