Description
Your Impact at LILA
Lila Sciences is seeking a high-judgment Chief of Staff to partner with our Chief Financial Officer across the financial, people, operating, and strategic priorities that support the company's next stage of growth. This role sits at the center of the CFO's portfolio, helping ensure the most important work is prioritized, advanced, and followed through with speed and discipline.
The Chief of Staff will help shape how the CFO's time, attention, and operating cadence are directed across Finance, HR, Marketing, Operations, and Strategy. They will prepare the CFO for key decisions, drive follow-up with internal teams and external partners, and keep critical company workstreams moving across functions. The right person brings structure to ambiguity, communicates clearly, handles sensitive information with discretion, and knows how to move work forward without creating unnecessary process.
What You'll Be Building
- Partner with the CFO to prioritize the highest-leverage work across finance, people, operations, strategy, and marketing.
- Shape the CFO's operating cadence, including key meetings, planning cycles, decision points, and follow-up.
- Prepare materials, context, and recommendations for leadership discussions, vendor conversations, and operating reviews.
- Track and advance CFO-owned projects from open question to decision, execution, and closure.
- Drive follow-up with vendors, external partners, and internal stakeholders on priorities tied to company operations.
- Coordinate across Finance, HR, Legal, Marketing, Operations, and Strategy to clarify ownership and next steps.
- Identify stalled work, unresolved decisions, or unclear handoffs, then escalate or resolve appropriately.
- Draft crisp decision notes, meeting follow-ups, operating updates, and executive communications.
- Maintain visibility across the CFO's portfolio so priorities, dependencies, and risks are clear.
- Bring structure and momentum to fast-moving work while preserving speed and flexibility.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- 7+ years of experience in a Chief of Staff, business operations, strategy, finance, people operations, consulting, or executive operating role.
- Track record supporting senior leaders through complex, cross-functional execution.
- Strong business judgment across finance, people, operations, vendors, and company planning.
- Ability to turn ambiguous priorities into clear workstreams, owners, decisions, and follow-up.
- Excellent written communication, including executive updates, decision notes, and follow-up materials.
- Strong discretion and judgment when handling sensitive finance, people, vendor, and company information.
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift quickly.
- Bias to action, strong follow-through, and the confidence to push for clarity when needed.
Bonus Points For
- Experience supporting a CFO, COO, Chief People Officer, or executive with a broad operating portfolio.
- Familiarity with budgeting, planning, procurement, vendor management, people operations, or company operating rhythms.
- Background in strategic finance, business operations, consulting, or executive operations.
- Experience in a startup or high-growth company where processes and infrastructure were still being built.
- Familiarity with tools such as Notion, Slack, Google Workspace, Greenhouse, HiBob, Ramp, NetSuite, or similar systems.
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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