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Manager/Senior Manager, Corporate Development

Lila Sciences

Your Impact at LILA

Origins is Lila’s company and asset creation arm, where Lila’s partners can turn scientific vision into molecules, materials, and real-world ventures. As a Manager/Senior Manager on the Origins team, you will work directly with leadership to evaluate and advance scientific opportunities. You will build analytical frameworks, partner-facing materials, and financial models that underpin how we identify, structure, and pursue these opportunities. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role for a builder who thrives in ambiguity and wants to be close to consequential decisions at one of the most ambitious scientific companies in the world.

What You’ll Be Building

  • Build and maintain financial models and projections to evaluate scientific opportunities and inform decisions
  • Develop partner-facing materials, presentations, and analyses to support external conversations and deal processes, working alongside leadership and external partners
  • Evaluate opportunities in the context of Lila’s platform, assessing scientific, commercial, and strategic fit
  • Support structuring and execution of ventures from early-stage diligence through deal close
  • Synthesize complex scientific and financial information into clear, decision-ready outputs for senior leadership
  • Collaborate across Lila’s scientific, finance, legal, and product/revenue teams to advance active opportunities

What You’ll Need to Succeed

  • Typically 4-6 years of experience, with a background in investment banking, private equity, or growth equity, and subsequent experience in venture capital, a startup, or a similarly fast-paced environment
  • Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or engineering discipline, or equivalent technical training
  • Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, with the ability to build models independently from scratch
  • Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality partner-facing materials and executive presentations under tight timelines
  • Comfortable working in ambiguity with limited oversight, and able to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex information for senior audiences

Bonus Points For

  • Experience evaluating early-stage scientific or technology opportunities
  • Familiarity with deep tech or life sciences sectors
  • Ability to engage substantively with scientific concepts and translate them into business and financial terms
  • Experience working directly with senior leadership in a high-growth or fast-paced environment
  • Proficiency in tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and data visualization platforms

Compensation

We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity. Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.

U.S. Benefits. Full-time U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off with generous company wide holidays; paid parental leave; an educational assistance program; commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees; and a company subsidized lunch program.

International Benefits. Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region. USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market.

Expected Base Salary Range
$140,000$186,000 USD

About LILA

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind’s greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.

LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at www.lila.ai.

Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you’d love to work in, even if you don’t meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.

We’re All In

Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Information you provide during your application process will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.

A Note to Agencies

Lila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Lila Sciences, and Lila Sciences will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

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