Director/ Senior Director, Product, Materials Chemistry

Your Impact at LILA Lila Sciences is hiring a Director/ Senior Director, Product, Materials Chemistry: a strategic, cross-functional product leader who shapes the vision, roadmap, and execution for platforms that accelerate the discovery and development of new materials. Reporting to the Head of Physical Science Product, you will lead product strategy and delivery across capabilities at the intersection of synthetic and materials chemistry, simulation and physics-based modeling, lab automation, data and ML, and scientific intelligence. This role requires strong leadership, crisp prioritization, and the ability to translate complex chemistry into clear product direction and measurable outcomes for internal teams, partners, and customers. You will be deeply customer- 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 materials chemistry platform to market. We are hiring a product focused chemist who speaks the language of organic synthesis and/or polymer chemistry, not a medicinal chemist whose pull-through is therapeutic small molecules. What You'll Be Building Set the long-term product vision, roadmap, and portfolio priorities for Lila's materials-chemistry portfolio, spanning organic and soft-materials programs: homogeneous catalysis and ligands, surfactants and formulations, organic semiconductors, monomer and polymer design, membranes, and coatings. Translate frontier organic and polymer chemistry capability into commercial materials programs, defining target product profiles (TPPs) across synthesis, formulation, characterization, and scale-up for partners in CPG, specialty chemicals, electronics, textiles, and industrial coatings. Drive product execution from concept to launch across chemistry, simulation, automation, data engineering, and ML. Represent product to executives, scientific leaders, partners, and customers as the senior externa