Executive Assistant

Lila Sciences; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Equity

Health benefits

Paid parental leave

Educational assistance

Commuter benefits

Company lunch

Job summary

Lila Sciences in Cambridge, MA seeks an Executive Assistant to provide high-impact support to senior leaders across Corporate Development, Product, and the commercial organization. You will manage complex calendars, coordinate priorities, and ensure follow-through on external engagements.

The role requires discretion, strong communication, and the ability to navigate a fast-growing startup environment. You will partner with executives, customers, and internal teams to drive operations and

Qualifications

• 5+ years supporting senior leaders in fast-paced environments.
• Strong calendar management, prioritization, and follow-through.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with cross-functional audiences.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex calendars for senior leaders.
• Coordinate meetings with agendas, materials, notes, and follow-ups.
• Track commitments and next steps across workstreams.
• Draft executive communications across Slack, Notion, Outlook.
• Prepare for customer, partner, and internal engagements.
• Support team operations and onsite logistics for Alewife and OCP.

Skills

Senior leadership support

Calendar management

Written & verbal communication

Discretion & professionalism

Multitasking & prioritization

Modern workplace tools

Tools

Outlook

Slack

Notion

Job description

As Executive Assistant, you’ll provide high-impact support to senior leaders across Corporate Development, Product, and Lila’s commercial organization. You’ll keep a fast-moving leadership team organized, prepared, and focused by managing complex schedules, coordinating priorities, and ensuring critical follow-through across internal and external engagements.

You’ll operate with strong judgment, discretion, and ownership in a high-context environment. This role is ideal for someone who can anticipate needs, resolve bottlenecks, and bring structure to cross-functional work involving executives, commercial partners, product leaders, and internal teams.

What You\'ll Be Building

• Manage complex calendars, scheduling, and prioritization for senior commercial and product leaders
• Coordinate internal and external meetings, including agendas, materials, notes, and follow-ups
• Track commitments, decisions, and next steps across commercial, product, and corporate development workstreams
• Draft and manage executive communications across Slack, Notion, Outlook, and related tools
• Partner with leaders and stakeholders to prepare for customer, partner, and internal engagements
• Support team operations, onsite logistics, and leadership routines across Alewife and OCP

What You\'ll Need to Succeed

• 5+ years of experience supporting senior leaders in fast-paced, high-growth environments
• Strong executive calendar management, prioritization, and follow-through skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication across executive and cross-functional audiences
• High discretion, sound judgment, and professionalism with sensitive information
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across teams, timelines, and stakeholders
• Proficiency with Outlook, Slack, Notion, and modern workplace tools

Bonus Points For

• Strong project coordination skills across internal and external stakeholders
• Comfort supporting executive meetings, customer engagements, or partner-facing work
• Experience in startup, technology, or high-growth operating environments
• Interest in Lila’s mission and impact-driven culture

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

$108,000 - $144,000 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.

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

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