Director / Senior Director, New Product Planning, Life Sciences

What You'll Be Building

• Source and evaluate new life sciences opportunities for Origins, screening for scientific differentiation, commercial viability, and fit with Lila's platform capabilities
• Track therapeutic area trends, modality breakthroughs, pipeline movement, and deal activity across pharma and biotech, and translate signal into actionable views for Origins
• Match therapeutic modalities to disease areas using biological rationale, competitive landscape, and unmet need, and recommend where Origins should concentrate effort
• Build and own market sizing, patient population, and deal economic models that inform go / no-go decisions on candidate ventures and partnerships
• Develop target product profiles and early commercial theses for assets under consideration, in partnership with Science, Product, and Corporate Development
• Run primary and secondary research (KOL interviews, competitor tracking, payer and clinician landscape) to stress-test assumptions and sharpen recommendations
• Shape deal structures and partnership constructs alongside Corporate Development, translating commercial logic into terms that work for Lila and counterparties
• Contribute to Origins' strategic thesis by synthesizing what we learn across opportunities into recommendations on therapeutic area focus, modality bets, and partnership models

What You'll Need to Succeed

• 6-8+ years in new product planning, commercial assessment, asset strategy, or business development inside a pharma, biotech, or life sciences investor (VC, growth equity) setting, with a track record of shaping go / no-go calls on early assets
• Strong scientific literacy in life sciences (therapeutics, modalities, disease biology); able to engage substantively with Science and external KOLs and translate scientific nuance into commercial implications
• Demonstrated ability to match therapeutic modalities to disease areas, with a clear point of view on where biological fit, unmet need, and competitive landscape converge
• Hands-on modeling experience: market sizing, patient population, forecasting, deal economics; comfortable building models from scratch and defending assumptions
• Active fluency in industry trends, pipeline movement, and deal activity across pharma and biotech; reads the market without needing a research function to brief you
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to distill complex commercial and scientific analyses into crisp recommendations for senior leadership
• Comfort operating in high ambiguity with limited oversight; biased toward building structure where none exists

Bonus Points For

• Advanced degree in life sciences (PhD, MS in biology, chemistry, bioengineering) or an MBA with deep life sciences focus
• Network of biotech operators, VCs, KOLs, and pharma BD leaders that you can tap for diligence and signal
• Hands-on use of AI tools in your workflows (market research, competitor tracking, modeling, synthesis) and a clear point of view on how AI is reshaping drug discovery and asset creation
• Prior experience structuring or evaluating partnership models, joint ventures, or NewCo formation