Director, Platform Product

- Senior

Cambridge, MA

About the position

Lila Sciences is seeking a dedicated Director of Product Platform to join our team. In this role, you will be Product lead for our Surfaces autonomous labs. You will set the roadmap for the future of this lab, work cross functionally to own the development and delivery of the world’s most advanced materials discovery lab, and help improve KPIs to advance our mission.

Responsibilities

• Set the roadmap for the future Surfaces autonomous lab
• Collaborate across teams to define the product requirements for future automated science builds, including the build plan and science plan
• Ingest and distill opportunities for capability improvements & expansions from technical and operating teams
• Constantly seek to identify areas for improvement and serve as a conduit for feedback from operators of the lab to the builders of the lab in order to dramatically improve KPIs
• Project manage the overall build to ensure on-time completion. Collaborate with domain contributors who own their own project plans to drive accountability
• Take on overall communication responsibilities for the status of the Surfaces build, including to executive leadership
• Once the lab is operational, monitor and report out progress of KPIs, resource allocations, and the balancing of priorities between model training and product development

Requirements

• Experience with managing extremely complex, multidisciplinary projects using project management best practices
• PhD or equivalent in experimental work in materials science, chemistry, chemical engineering, or related field
• Experience with experimental design, data acquisition, result interpretation, and implementation
• Experience working with automation and controls in a relevant industry (chemicals, materials, etc)

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with automated/self-driving labs
• Experience working with (not necessarily having run) machine learning