Associate Director/Director, Strategic Events

What You'll Be Building

Develop a 12–18 month strategic events roadmap aligned with company priorities and GTM motions (e.g., SLAS, JPM, NVIDIA GTC, Lila-hosted summits, hackathons).

Define clear objectives and KPIs for each event (pipeline and revenue influence, investor and partner meetings, policy relationships, talent leads, brand reach).

Own strategy and execution for flagship and executive-level events, including programming, formats, and audience journeys tailored for investors, partners/customers, policymakers, and technical talent.

Lead cross-functional planning with MarCom, Commercial, BizOps, Federal/Policy, Talent, and Science/AI/Robotics teams to ensure events are fully integrated with product, PR, content, and recruiting.

Manage budgets, agencies, and vendors, including sponsorships and production partners, with clear forecasting and ROI tracking.

Design immersive experiences and demos that bring Lila’s AI platform, AI science factories and scientific breakthroughs to life for different audiences.

Build scalable playbooks and processes so future regional and functional teams can execute consistent, high-quality events.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

10–15+ years in strategic events, event marketing, or experiential marketing, ideally in B2B tech, life sciences, or AI.

Proven track record owning a global events portfolio that serves multiple senior audiences (talent acquisition, investors, enterprise customers/partners, policymakers, technical communities).

Strong program management skills and comfort operating in a fast-moving, highly cross-functional environment.

Able to define and track event ROI, working with CRM and marketing tools (e.g., Salesforce or equivalents).

Excellent storytelling and communication, with the range to speak credibly to investors, scientists, engineers, policymakers, and candidates.

Experience managing vendors and influencing C-suite leaders.

Willingness to travel 25–40% for events and on-site execution.

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.

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.