(Senior) Director, Product, Electronic Materials

Lila Sciences; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 272,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Employer-paid life and disability

Flexible time off

Parental leave

Educational assistance

Commuter benefits

Lunch program

Job summary

Lila Sciences seeks a (Senior) Director, Product, Electronic Materials to lead the vision, roadmap, and execution for platforms accelerating discovery of new electronic materials such as superconductors, semiconductors, magnets, and photonics.

You will translate deep physics into commercial programs, drive cross-functional delivery across science, simulation, data, and lab automation, and own end-to-end commercial outcomes while engaging with partners and customers.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in physics, materials science, or electrical engineering with strong fundamentals across band structure, superconductivity, magnetism, and optics.
• Proven ability to translate materials physics into commercial electronic-materials products.
• 7+ years in product leadership building complex technical products (materials systems, devices, software, or ML-enabled platforms).

Responsibilities

• Set long-term vision, roadmap, and portfolio priorities for electronic-materials platforms.
• Translate frontier materials-physics capability into commercial programs with defined target profiles.
• Drive end-to-end product execution from concept to launch across science, simulation, automation, data, and ML.
• Represent product to executives, partners, and customers as the senior external voice.
• Own commercial outcomes: opportunity shaping, proposals, deal closure, and revenue impact.
• Define success metrics and report progress to leadership.

Skills

Materials physics

Product leadership

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decisions

Program management

Education

MS/PhD in condensed-matter physics, materials science, or electrical engineering

Tools

XRD

XPS

AFM

SQUID/VSM

Job description

Your Impact at LILA

Lila Sciences is hiring a (Senior) Director, Product, Electronic Materials: a strategic, cross-functional product leader who shapes the vision, roadmap, and execution for platforms that accelerate the discovery and development of new electronic materials (e.g., superconductors, semiconductors, magnets, photonics). Reporting to the Head of Physical Science Product, you will lead product strategy and delivery across capabilities at the intersection of condensed-matter physics, simulation and physics based modeling, device performance, lab automation, data and ML, and scientific intelligence.

This role requires strong leadership, crisp prioritization, and the ability to translate complex physical phenomena intoclear product direction and measurable outcomes for internal teams, partners, and customers. You will be deeplycustomer-facing, serving as a trusted technical and product voice with prospects and partners, shaping proposals,driving commercial conversations, and closing deals that bring Lila’s electronic-materials platform to market. We arehiring a product-focused materials scientist or condensed-matter physicist fluent in component and device design, notan electrical engineer whose focus is circuit or system-level design divorced from the underlying materials.

What You’ll Be Building

• Set the long-term product vision, roadmap, and portfolio priorities for Lila’s electronic-materials portfolio, spanningsuperconductors, semiconductors, magnetic materials, and photonics
• Translate frontier materials-physics capability into commercial electronic-materials programs, defining targetproduct profiles (TPPs) across synthesis, fabrication, characterization, and device integration for partners insemiconductors, quantum computing, aerospace and defense, telecommunications, and energy.
• Drive product execution from concept to launch across materials science, simulation, automation, data engineering,and ML.
• Represent product to executives, scientific leaders, partners, and customers as the senior external voice for thedomain.
• Own commercial outcomes end-to-end: opportunity shaping, proposal development, deal closure, and revenue forthe domain.
• Define success metrics and milestones (technical, product, commercial) and report progress clearly to leadership.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• MS, PhD, or equivalent experience in condensed-matter physics, materials science, or electrical engineering, withgenuine fluency across fundamental science (band structure and semiconductor physics, superconductivity theory,magnetism, and nonlinear/quantum optics), characterization (XRD, XPS, AFM, Hall-effect and four-point transportmeasurements, SQUID/VSM magnetometry, and photoluminescence/optical spectroscopy), and manufacturing(thin-film deposition, epitaxy, lithography, cleanroom processing, device architectures, and packaging).
• A track record of translating materials physics from fundamental science to commercialized electronic-materialsproducts.
• 7+ years of product leadership (PM, Group PM, Product Lead) building and launching complex technical products:materials systems, devices, scientific software or hardware, simulation platforms, data products, or ML-enabledsystems.
• Deep understanding of materials and device R&D workflows: experimental iteration, instrumentation, data quality,and scale-up constraints.
• Strong executive communication: clear storytelling and decisions legible to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Highly collaborative leadership style, with the ability to influence across research, engineering, operations, andcommercial teams.
• Output- and impact-focused, driven by delivered results against mission and program goals.

Bonus Points For

• A track record defining and executing TPPs and product strategies for scientific platforms (software, hardware, andworkflows), not just standalone applications.
• Experience building products at the intersection of LLMs / agentic systems and materials or device R&D workflows,with a point of view on where these tools actually change throughput and decision quality in the lab (materialsdiscovery, device design, process optimization).
• Direct experience with external partners or customers in electronics-intensive sectors (semiconductors, quantumcomputing, aerospace and defense, telecommunications, energy).

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.

• 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
• 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

$168,000—$272,000 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.

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