(Senior) Director, Product, Electronic Materials

Your Impact at LILA

Lila Sciences is hiring a (Senior) Director, Product, Electronic Materials: a strategic, cross-functional product leader who shapes the vision, roadmap, and execution for platforms that accelerate the discovery and development of new electronic materials (e.g., superocnductors, semiconductors, magnets, photonics). Reporting to the Head of Physical Science Product, you will lead product strategy and delivery across capabilities at the intersection of condensed-matter physics, simulation and physics based modeling, device performance, lab automation, data and ML, and scientific intelligence.

This role requires strong leadership, crisp prioritization, and the ability to translate complex physical phenomena into clear product direction and measurable outcomes for internal teams, partners, and customers. You will be deeply customer-facing, serving as a trusted technical and product voice with prospects and partners, shaping proposals, driving commercial conversations, and closing deals that bring Lila's electronic-materials platform to market. We are hiring a product-focused materials scientist or condensed-matter physicist fluent in component and device design, not an electrical engineer whose focus is circuit or system-level design divorced from the underlying materials.

What You'll Be Building

• Set the long-term product vision, roadmap, and portfolio priorities for Lila's electronic-materials portfolio, spanning superconductors, semiconductors, magnetic materials, and photonics
• Translate frontier materials-physics capability into commercial electronic-materials programs, defining target product profiles (TPPs) across synthesis, fabrication, characterization, and device integration for partners in semiconductors, quantum computing, aerospace and defense, telecommunications, and energy.
• Drive product execution from concept to launch across materials science, simulation, automation, data engineering, and ML.
• Represent product to executives, scientific leaders, partners, and customers as the senior external voice for the domain.
• Own commercial outcomes end-to-end: opportunity shaping, proposal development, deal closure, and revenue for the domain.
• Define success metrics and milestones (technical, product, commercial) and report progress clearly to leadership.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• MS, PhD, or equivalent experience in condensed-matter physics, materials science, or electrical engineering, with genuine fluency across fundamental science (band structure and semiconductor physics, superconductivity theory, magnetism, and nonlinear/quantum optics), characterization (XRD, XPS, AFM, Hall-effect and four-point transport measurements, SQUID/VSM magnetometry, and photoluminescence/optical spectroscopy), and manufacturing (thin-film deposition, epitaxy, lithography, cleanroom processing, device architectures, and packaging).
• A track record of translating materials physics from fundamental science to commercialized electronic-materials products.
• 7+ years of product leadership (PM, Group PM, Product Lead) building and launching complex technical products: materials systems, devices, scientific software or hardware, simulation platforms, data products, or ML-enabled systems.
• Deep understanding of materials and device R&D workflows: experimental iteration, instrumentation, data quality, and scale-up constraints.
• Strong executive communication: clear storytelling and decisions legible to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Highly collaborative leadership style, with the ability to influence across research, engineering, operations, and commercial teams.
• Output- and impact-focused, driven by delivered results against mission and program goals.

Bonus Points For

• A track record defining and executing TPPs and product strategies for scientific platforms (software, hardware, and workflows), not just standalone applications.
• Experience building products at the intersection of LLMs / agentic systems and materials or device R&D workflows, with a point of view on where these tools actually change throughput and decision quality in the lab (materials discovery, device design, process optimization).
• Direct experience with external partners or customers in electronics-intensive sectors (semiconductors, quantum computing, aerospace and defense, telecommunications, energy).