(Senior) Director, Portfolio Strategy, Life Sciences

The role

You will shape Lila Origins by sourcing and evaluating life sciences opportunities. You will match therapeutic modalities to disease areas and build quantitative models to inform go/no-go decisions.

What you will do

• Source and evaluate new life sciences opportunities for Origins
• Track therapeutic area trends, modality breakthroughs, pipeline movement, and deal activity
• Match therapeutic modalities to disease areas using biological rationale, competitive landscape, and unmet need
• Build and own market sizing, patient population, and deal economic models
• Develop target product profiles and early commercial theses for assets
• Run primary and secondary research including KOL interviews, competitor tracking, payer and clinician landscape
• Shape deal structures and partnership constructs alongside Corporate Development
• Contribute to Origins' strategic thesis by synthesizing learnings into recommendations

Required qualifications

• 6-8+ years in new product planning, commercial assessment, asset strategy, or business development inside a pharma, biotech, or life sciences investor setting
• Strong scientific literacy in life sciences (therapeutics, modalities, disease biology)
• Demonstrated ability to match therapeutic modalities to disease areas
• Hands-on modeling experience: market sizing, patient population, forecasting, deal economics
• Active fluency in industry trends, pipeline movement, and deal activity across pharma and biotech
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Comfort operating in high ambiguity with limited oversight

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in life sciences (PhD, MS in biology, chemistry, bioengineering) or an MBA with deep life sciences focus
• Network of biotech operators, VCs, KOLs, and pharma BD leaders
• Hands-on use of AI tools in your workflows
• Prior experience structuring or evaluating partnership models, joint ventures, or NewCo formation

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Educational assistance program
• Commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
• Company subsidized lunch program

About the company

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science.