Recruiter Lead (Full Time)

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.

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

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

Experience hiring across G&A functions such as Finance, Legal, or People

We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early‑stage equity. 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; commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees; International Benefits.
Full‑time employees outside the U.international salaries are set to local market.

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. 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. Lila Sciences iscommitted to equal employment opportunityregardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

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