(Senior) Director, Portfolio Strategy, Life Sciences

Lila Sciences; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Lila Sciences in Cambridge, MA, is hiring a Director / Senior Director, New Product Planning to help shape Lila Origins, our asset creation arm, translating scientific vision into molecules, materials, and real-world ventures.

You will work at the interface of science, market, and deal structure, building market sizing, patient population models, and deal economics to inform strategic decisions. The role sits with Corporate Development and offers a cross-disciplinary, high-leverage environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in new product planning, asset strategy, or commercial assessment in pharma/biotech.
• Ability to build market sizing, patient population modeling and deal economics.

Responsibilities

• Source and evaluate new life sciences opportunities for Origins, screening for scientific differentiation, commercial viability, and fit with Lila’s platform capabilities.
• Track therapeutic area trends, modality breakthroughs, pipeline movement, and deal activity across pharma and biotech, and translate signal into actionable views for Origins.
• Match therapeutic modalities to disease areas using biological rationale, competitive landscape, and unmet need, and recommend where Origins should concentrate effort.
• Build and own market sizing, patient population, and deal economic models that inform go / no‑go decisions on candidate.

Job description

Cambridge, MA USA

Lila Sciences is hiring a Director / Senior Director, New Product Planning to help shape Lila Origins, our company and asset creation arm which partners to translate scientific vision into molecules, materials, and real‑world ventures. As a member of a small, highly cross‑functional team, you will bring the commercial voice to life sciences opportunities at the earliest stages, assessing where Lila's platform can produce differentiated assets and shaping how those opportunities become ventures, partnerships, or programs.

You will spend your time at the interface of science, market, and deal structure. You will match therapeutic modalities to disease areas based on biological fit, competitive landscape, and commercial viability. You will build quantitative views of opportunities (market sizing, patient population modeling, deal economics) and translate them into recommendations for Origins and Lila leadership. You will pressure‑test ideas with external operators, investors, and partners, and use what you learn to sharpen Lila's Origins thesis.

This role suits someone who has run new product planning, asset strategy, or commercial assessment work inside a pharma or biotech organization, lives close to industry trends, and is drawn to a builder environment where the asset list is being defined in real time. You will work closely with the VP, Head of Lila Origins, and sit within Corporate Development. The work is high ambiguity, high leverage, and deliberately cross‑disciplinary.

What You'll Be Building

• Source and evaluate new life sciences opportunities for Origins, screening for scientific differentiation, commercial viability, and fit with Lila’s platform capabilities
• Track therapeutic area trends, modality breakthroughs, pipeline movement, and deal activity across pharma and biotech, and translate signal into actionable views for Origins
• Match therapeutic modalities to disease areas using biological rationale, competitive landscape, and unmet need, and recommend where Origins should concentrate effort
• Build and own market sizing, patient population, and deal economic models that inform go / no‑go decisions on candidate