About the job
Make a Significant Impact at Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences is actively seeking a dynamic Associate Director or Director of Program Management in the Life Sciences sector. This pivotal role is designed for an experienced leader who will spearhead the planning, execution, and successful delivery of therapeutic programs within Lila's innovative platform. The successful candidate will directly manage projects across internal science, engineering, and automation teams dedicated to developing molecules for our partners, ensuring timelines, resource allocation, and progress tracking are meticulously maintained across diverse, multidisciplinary programs.
In this capacity, you will also act as a key operational liaison with our pharmaceutical and biotech partners, guaranteeing seamless governance, communication, and delivery of project milestones.
These programs involve significant scientific complexity and commercial importance, necessitating a proactive approach to driving execution in fast-paced, technically challenging environments while adeptly managing partner relationships and expectations.
Your Responsibilities
- Lead comprehensive project management for active therapeutic initiatives, overseeing timeline development, resource coordination, milestone tracking, and dependency management among product, science, machine learning, and automation teams.
- Instill a sense of discipline in day-to-day execution, ensuring internal teams are aligned with clear priorities and deliverables, while swiftly addressing any identified blockers.
- Facilitate discussions regarding resource allocation and make trade-off decisions across a complex landscape of priorities, such as balancing AI model training experiments with immediate partnership deliverables.
- Create and uphold program-level reporting structures, including status updates, milestone tracking, and resource utilization insights for both internal leadership and external stakeholders.
- Proactively identify, communicate, and manage program risks, escalating issues as necessary and maintaining transparency with scientific and executive leadership.
- Organize and lead effective internal program meetings, decision-making forums, and reviews, ensuring the right information is disseminated to the appropriate stakeholders in a timely manner.
Partner Engagement
- Act as the primary operational interface with partner organizations, coordinating joint governance, managing deliverable timelines, and fostering alignment on project milestones and expectations.
- Translate internal program statuses into structured updates for external partners, ensuring clarity while preserving internal complexities.
- Support alliance obligations, including participation in joint steering committees, milestone reporting, and deliverable handoffs.

