Senior Product Designer II / Staff Product Designer

Lila Sciences; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 256,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

Life and Disability Insurance

Generous holidays

Parental leave

Education assistance

Commuter benefits

Bike share

Lunch program

Job summary

Lila Sciences in Cambridge, MA is seeking a Senior Product Designer II / Staff Product Designer to shape core Lila App experiences for scientists, ResOps, and LAS users as they plan, execute, and learn from scientific workflows.

You will translate complex workflows into intuitive, trustworthy software, and partner with product, engineering, scientists, and operations to address user problems while prototyping AI-native interactions that help users understand system recommendations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design, UX design, or interaction design experience.
• Strong portfolio showing end-to-end product design and shipped product impact.
• Experience designing complex, data-rich, technical, or operational software products.
• Ability to simplify ambiguous technical workflows into clear product experiences.
• Strong interaction design, information architecture, and systems thinking skills.
• Experience partnering with product managers, engineers, and domain experts.
• Comfort using modern AI tools for design exploration, prototyping, and synthesis.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end Lila App workflows for scientists, ResOps, and LAS users.
• Translate scientific and operational complexity into clear, intuitive product experiences.
• Partner with product, engineering, science, and operations to define user problems and tradeoffs.
• Prototype AI-native interactions that help users understand and act on system recommendations.
• Conduct lightweight research, workflow mapping, and usability testing with internal users.
• Contribute scalable design patterns that improve consistency across the Lila App.
• Use AI-enabled design tools to accelerate exploration, iteration, and communication.

Job description

Senior Product Designer II / Staff Product Designer

Cambridge, MA USA

As a Senior Product Designer II / Staff Product Designeron the Software Product team, you will shape core Lila App experiences that help scientists, ResOps, and LAS users plan, execute, and learn from scientific workflows.

You will translate complex scientific workflows and AI-native product capabilities into intuitive, trustworthy, and scalable software experiences. You will partner closely with product, engineering, scientists, and operations teams to design workflows that support product externalization and high-quality user experiences across the Lila App.

Your work will influence how users interact with Lila’s scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab systems.

What You'll Be Building

• Design end-to-end Lila App workflows for scientists, ResOps, and LAS users.
• Translate scientific and operational complexity into clear, intuitive product experiences.
• Partner with product, engineering, science, and operations to define user problems and tradeoffs.
• Prototype AI-native interactions that help users understand and act on system recommendations.
• Conduct lightweight research, workflow mapping, and usability testing with internal users.
• Contribute scalable design patterns that improve consistency across the Lila App.
• Use AI-enabled design tools to accelerate exploration, iteration, and communication.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• 5+ years of product design, UX design, or interaction design experience.
• Strong portfolio showing end-to-end product design and shipped product impact.
• Experience designing complex, data-rich, technical, or operational software products.
• Ability to simplify ambiguous technical workflows into clear product experiences.
• Strong interaction design, information architecture, and systems thinking skills.
• Experience partnering with product managers, engineers, and domain experts.
• Comfort using modern AI tools for design exploration, prototyping, and synthesis.

Bonus Points For

• Experience designing for scientists, lab operations, biotech, or AI-enabled technical users.
• Experience designing AI-native workflows, trust calibration, explainability, or review flows.
• Familiarity with data visualization, workflow orchestration, LIMS, or scientific data management.
• Experience contributing to or scaling a design system.
• Comfort working in ambiguous, early-stage product areas.

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

$180,000 - $256,000 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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