Your Impact at LILA
As Executive Assistant, you’ll provide high-impact support to senior leaders across Corporate Development, Product, and Lila’s commercial organization. You’ll keep a fast-moving leadership team organized, prepared, and focused by managing complex schedules, coordinating priorities, and ensuring critical follow-through across internal and external engagements.
You’ll operate with strong judgment, discretion, and ownership in a high-context environment. This role is ideal for someone who can anticipate needs, resolve bottlenecks, and bring structure to cross-functional work involving executives, commercial partners, product leaders, and internal teams.
What You'll Be Building
- Manage complex calendars, scheduling, and prioritization for senior commercial and product leaders
- Coordinate internal and external meetings, including agendas, materials, notes, and follow-ups
- Track commitments, decisions, and next steps across commercial, product, and corporate development workstreams
- Draft and manage executive communications across Slack, Notion, Outlook, and related tools
- Partner with leaders and stakeholders to prepare for customer, partner, and internal engagements
- Support team operations, onsite logistics, and leadership routines across Alewife and OCP
What You'll Need to Succeed
- 5+ years of experience supporting senior leaders in fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Strong executive calendar management, prioritization, and follow-through skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication across executive and cross-functional audiences
- High discretion, sound judgment, and professionalism with sensitive information
- Ability to manage multiple priorities across teams, timelines, and stakeholders
- Proficiency with Outlook, Slack, Notion, and modern workplace tools
Bonus Points For
- Strong project coordination skills across internal and external stakeholders
- Comfort supporting executive meetings, customer engagements, or partner-facing work
- Experience in startup, technology, or high-growth operating environments
- Interest in Lila’s mission and impact-driven culture
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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