Lead Recruiter

lilasciences

Cambridge, MA USA · Cambridge

Posted Aug 3, 2026

Full-time
Corporate Development

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Job description

Your Impact at LILA

As Lead Recruiter, you will own end-to-end recruiting across Lila's commercial and business functions, with primary focus on go-to-market and corporate development, and meaningful coverage of Product, Finance, Legal, People, and Marketing as hiring priorities shift. You will partner directly with senior leaders across these functions to translate strategy into hiring plans, then run searches that bring in the operators, dealmakers, and builders who shape how Lila grows.

This is a hands-on, full-cycle role. You will source, screen, run candidates through process, and close offers. The mix of work will move as the business moves, giving you exposure across the full breadth of how Lila is built.

You will calibrate interview panels, advise on compensation and market dynamics, and represent Lila to senior candidates with strong options elsewhere. You will sit on the Talent Acquisition team, which is based predominantly out of Cambridge, MA.

What You'll Be Building

Own end-to-end searches across commercial, corporate development, and broader G&A roles at Lila
Partner with senior hiring managers to define roles, calibrate panels, and run rigorous processes
Influence creative sourcing strategies and build proactive pipelines across the functions in your portfolio
Drive offer strategy, negotiation, and close for senior individual contributor and people-leader hires
Advise leadership on market conditions, compensation benchmarks, and talent risks across your functions
Improve process and tooling with an obsession for candidate experience at every stage

What You'll Need to Succeed

5+ years or equivalent experience in full-cycle recruiting with deep sourcing experience and experience working on go-to-market and product roles in highly technical environments
Track record of closing senior hires at high-growth startups or in competitive talent markets
Excellent stakeholder management with the ability to push back constructively and partner directly with hiring managers
Ability to flex across multiple functions as business priorities shift
Experience using pipeline metrics, conversion rates, and reporting to drive recruiting decisions

Bonus Points For

Experience recruiting at a deep-tech, biotech, or scientific company
In-house recruiting experience scaling a function from early to mid-stage
Familiarity with Greenhouse and modern sourcing tools
Experience hiring across G&A functions such as Finance, Legal, or People

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.

Expected Base Salary Range

$108,000—$163,333 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

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.