Treasurer

Your Impact at LILA

We are seeking a strategic and operationally rigorous Treasurer to build and lead a world-class treasury function capable of supporting a multi-entity, capital-intensive, rapidly expanding organization. This role will own the company’s treasury strategy and operations, including liquidity management, banking relationships, risk management, and investment strategy.

What You'll Be Building

Liquidity & Cash Management

• Build and own global cash forecasting (13-week rolling, liquidity planning)
• Optimize cash deployment across entities
• Design and implement scalable treasury systems and controls
• Oversee global payment operations, including wire and ACH release, ensuring strong internal controls and fraud prevention

Investment Strategy

• Design and execute short-term investment strategy for excess liquidity
• Refine and enhance policies for money market funds, treasuries, and approved instruments
• Manage and further develop banking relationships

Team & Systems Buildout

• Build treasury processes that scale to a multi-billion dollar platform
• Manage banking platforms, user access, and approval workflows
• Partner closely with Accounting, FP&A, Legal, and Operations

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• 6-10+ years of progressive treasury experience
• Experience in high-growth, venture-backed, or capital-intensive environments
• Strong understanding of venture debt, structured financing, and equipment leasing
• Experience managing significant cash balances and complex capital structures
• Deep banking network and negotiation experience
• Familiarity with multi-entity and international treasury operations preferred
• Strong analytical and modeling skills
• Ability to operate both strategically and tactically

Bonus Points For

• International treasury experience, including FX risk management and global cash structuring
• Experience in biotech, deep-tech, hardware, or capital-intensive industries
• Experience with government grants or federal funding compliance
• CPA, CFA, or CTP certification

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 $168,000 — $238,000 USD

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

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A Note to Agencies

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