Lead Recruiter, Expert Network

🚀 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.

🌟 Your Impact at Lila
You will own end-to-end searches for expert-track roles across our machine learning, biotech, materials, and robotics domains—building proactive pipelines of frontier-minded leaders.

🛠️ What You’ll Be Building

• Full-lifecycle searches for senior technical and executive hires
• Market mapping and network cultivation within key domain areas that Lila is currently developing, and expecting to scale into
• Targeted outreach and networking strategies to technical experts in relevant fields  
• Offer negotiation, closing strategies, and seamless onboarding
• Strategic advisement on compensation benchmarks and talent-risk mitigation

🧰 What You’ll Need to Succeed

• 6–8+ years in executive search or senior technical recruiting (deep-tech or biotech)
• Demonstrated success placing VP+/C-suite leaders
• Domain fluency in at least two of ML, biology, materials science, or robotics/engineering
• Outstanding stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Data-driven mindset with experience advising on market trends

✨ Bonus Points For

• Global search experience (North America, Europe, APAC)
• Retained-search or agency background at the executive level
• Familiarity with board-level recruitment processes

🌈 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.

🤝 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.