Director, Product, Physical Sciences

Responsibilities

• Set the long-term product vision, roadmap, and portfolio priorities for the Physical Sciences portfolio
• Define product strategy and target product profiles for workflows including materials design, formulation, and scale-up
• Drive product execution from concept to launch across simulation, automation, data engineering, and ML
• Represent the product to executives, scientific leaders, partners, and customers
• Own commercial outcomes including opportunity shaping, proposal development, and deal closure
• Define and report on technical, product, and commercial success metrics

Requirements

• MS, PhD, or equivalent experience in physical sciences (materials science, chemistry, physics, or engineering)
• 7+ years of product leadership building complex technical products like scientific software, hardware, or ML systems
• Deep understanding of physical-science R&D workflows and instrumentation
• Strong executive communication and storytelling skills
• Highly collaborative leadership style capable of influencing research and engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience executing product strategies for integrated scientific platforms (software + hardware)
• Experience building products at the intersection of LLMs/agentic systems and scientific workflows
• Direct experience with partners in materials, energy, aerospace, or manufacturing
• Deep domain knowledge in simulations, semiconductors, or formulations

About the Company

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously.