Manager / Senior Technical Program Manager
Lila Sciences
$180,000 - $256,000 / year
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Description
Your Impact at LILA
The Scientific System of Record (SSR) team builds the memory layer for Lila's operations. Our two core platforms, the Design Registry and LIMS, capture experimental design, samples, processes, and provenance across Lila's scientific workflows.
As a Senior Technical Program Manager on SSR, you will operate at the intersection of engineering execution and organizational strategy. You will partner with an Engineering Director to scale engineering processes, drive cross-functional alignment across multiple engineering teams, and manage complex, multi-stakeholder programs that span cross-cutting scientific domains.
You will build and improve how the team operates, not only track and deliver against it.
What You'll Be Building
- Own end-to-end program management across Designs & Schemas, LIMS, Build & Order, Project Management, and ELN
- Align requirements, dependencies, and timelines on cross-cutting programs spanning life sciences, formulations, and chemistry
- Communicate scope, tradeoffs, risks, and timelines to technical and scientific stakeholders, resolving blockers early
- Partner with the Engineering Director to design, operationalize, and improve engineering processes at scale
- Scale agile practices across SSR: Jira hygiene, sprint planning discipline, and backlog management
- Define release gates, support intake processes, and operational dashboards that drive continuous improvement
What You'll Need to Succeed
- 5+ years in technical program management, managing complex, multi-team programs in a fast-moving engineering environment
- Demonstrated ability to design processes from scratch and operationalize them at scale
- Strong technical fluency with APIs, data models, schemas, and system integrations
- Experience managing cross-functional dependencies across engineering teams and scientific stakeholders
- Commitment to work from our Alewife (Cambridge, MA) or San Francisco office 3-5 days per week
Bonus Points For
- Background in biology, chemistry, materials science, or another experimental science
- Experience with LIMS, ELNs, scientific registries, laboratory informatics, or scientific data platforms
- Experience modeling samples, protocols, lineage, provenance, or inventory
- Experience integrating scientific systems with automation or data infrastructure, including event-driven architectures
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.
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.
We’re All In
Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
Information you provide during your application process will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.
A Note to Agencies
Lila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Lila Sciences, and Lila Sciences will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.
Benefits
- health insurance
- vision insurance
- stock options
- parental leave
- disability insurance
About this role
Lila Sciences is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead the Scientific System of Record team, which maintains the core platforms—Design Registry and LIMS—that track experimental data and provenance across the company's operations. You'll work closely with an Engineering Director to scale processes, align multiple engineering teams around complex, cross-functional programs, and bridge the gap between technical execution and organizational strategy. This role goes beyond traditional program tracking; you'll be designing and operationalizing how the team works, managing dependencies across life sciences, formulations, and chemistry domains, and communicating scope and tradeoffs to both technical and scientific stakeholders.
Success in this position requires at least five years managing multi-team programs in fast-paced engineering environments, strong technical fluency with APIs, data models, and system integrations, and the ability to build processes from the ground up and scale them. You'll own agile practices, release gates, intake processes, and operational dashboards that drive continuous improvement. A background in experimental science, familiarity with LIMS or scientific data platforms, and experience integrating scientific systems with automation or data infrastructure are valuable assets but not required.
The role is based in Cambridge, MA (Alewife) or San Francisco, with an expectation to work in-office three to five days per week. Compensation ranges from $180,000 to $256,000 base salary, plus bonus potential and early-stage equity, alongside comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, and flexible time off.
How this employer is doing
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- Recently Raised Funding
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Lila Sciences in talks for $2B funding at $8.5B valuation - Bloomberg, Investing.com
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