Your Impact at LILA
We are seeking a creative and skilled Multimedia Specialist to join our team. This in-house role will serve as the go-to resource for basic design (slides, overviews, explainers), video production, photography, animation, and multimedia content creation.
At Lila, this role also supports a highly technical environment. The Multimedia Specialist should be comfortable engaging with science and engineering teams, quickly learning new concepts, and helping translate complex work into clear, compelling visuals and narrative content. A background in science, biology, AI, robotics, or software is a strong plus.
In addition to content creation, this role will help ensure our growing set of visual and multimedia assets are organized, archived, and easy to reuse across teams, including Sales Enablement, Commercial, Marketing & Communications, and scientific teams documenting discoveries and lab processes.
What You'll Be Building
Multimedia production (core)
- Create and produce engaging multimedia content, including videos, graphics, and animations, for various platforms.
- Capture and edit high-quality photographs and videos for promotional materials, internal communications, and social content.
- Manage end-to-end production from concept development to final delivery, including light coordination of timelines, reviews, and asset handoff.
- Stay current with industry trends and best practices in multimedia production.
Scientific + technical communication
- Partner with scientific, engineering, and product stakeholders to understand complex topics and translate them into accurate visual stories.
- Produce content for both external-facing and internal audiences, such as:
- Sales enablement and commercial materials (short videos, demo clips, slide visuals, one-pager graphics)
- Scientific and technical explainers (animations, diagrams, process visuals)
- Lab/team documentation that helps capture discoveries and workflows
Collaboration & visual storytelling
- Collaborate with Marketing & Communications team members to develop and execute visual storytelling strategies across channels.
- Work with cross-functional partners who need content daily, balancing speed with quality and consistency.
Content asset management & archiving
- Maintain an organized library of multimedia assets, including basic metadata/tagging, versioning, and archiving.
- Create lightweight norms/templates for naming conventions, file hygiene, and reuse so assets can be easily found and repurposed.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in multimedia production, with a strong portfolio showcasing your work.
- Proficiency in digital production tools, including but not limited to Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects).
- Excellent storytelling skills with the ability to create compelling narratives through visuals.
- Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to meet deadlines.
- Comfort working with scientists, researchers, and technical teams, including the ability to ask great questions and communicate clearly.
Bonus Points For
- Experience in a communications or digital marketing agency.
- Familiarity or comfort with scientific/technical topics. Background in science, biology, AI/ML, robotics, or software is a plus.
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.
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