Chief of Staff to the CFO

About the role

The Chief of Staff will partner with the CFO across financial, people, operating, and strategic priorities that support Lila Sciences' growth. This role sits centrally in the CFO's portfolio, ensuring the most impactful work is prioritized, advanced, and followed up on.

Responsibilities

• 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 questions 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.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in a Chief of Staff, business operations, strategy, finance, people operations, consulting, or executive operating role.
• 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.

Pay

We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity. Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.

Schedule

Full-time position.

Benefits

U.S. Benefits: 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: Comprehensive benefits program tailored to the region. USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market.

Qualifications

Competitive base salary range: $204,000 - $320,000 USD.

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.

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.