Senior Associate, Origins

Your Impact at Lila

Origins is Lila's company and asset creation arm, where Lila's partners can turn scientific vision into molecules, materials, and real-world ventures. As a Senior Associate on the Origins team, you will work directly with leadership to evaluate and advance scientific opportunities. You will build analytical frameworks, partner-facing materials, and financial models that underpin how we identify, structure, and pursue these opportunities. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role for a builder who thrives in ambiguity and wants to be close to consequential decisions at one of the most ambitious scientific companies in the world.

What You'll Be Building

• Build and maintain financial models and projections to evaluate scientific opportunities and inform decisions
• Develop partner-facing materials, presentations, and analyses to support external conversations and deal processes, working alongside leadership and external partners
• Evaluate opportunities in the context of Lila's platform, assessing scientific, commercial, and strategic fit
• Support structuring and execution of ventures from early-stage diligence through deal close
• Synthesize complex scientific and financial information into clear, decision-ready outputs for senior leadership
• Collaborate across Lila's scientific, finance, legal, and product/revenue teams to advance active opportunities

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Typically 4-6 years of experience, with a background in investment banking, private equity, or growth equity, and subsequent experience in venture capital, a startup, or a similarly fast-paced environment
• Bachelor's degree in a scientific or engineering discipline, or equivalent technical training
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, with the ability to build models independently from scratch
• Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality partner-facing materials and executive presentations under tight timelines
• Comfortable working in ambiguity with limited oversight, and able to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex information for senior audiences

Bonus Points For

• Experience evaluating early-stage scientific or technology opportunities
• Familiarity with deep tech or life sciences sectors
• Ability to engage substantively with scientific concepts and translate them into business and financial terms
• Experience working directly with senior leadership in a high-growth or fast-paced environment
• Proficiency in tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and data visualization platforms

About Lila

Lila Sciences is the world’s first scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab for life, chemistry, and materials science. We are pioneering a new age of boundless discovery by building the capabilities to apply AI to every aspect of the scientific method. We are introducing scientific superintelligence to solve humankind's greatest challenges, enabling scientists to bring forth solutions in human health, climate, and sustainability at a pace and scale never experienced before. Learn more about this mission at www.lila.ai

If this sounds like an environment you’d love to work in, even if you only have some of the experience listed below, we encourage you to apply.

We’re All In

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Compensation

We offer competitive compensation including bonus potential and generous early equity. The final offer will reflect your unique background, expertise, and impact.

Expected Base Salary Range

$68,000 - $117,333 USD