Product Strategy Intern, Chemistry

Your Impact at LILA

As a Product Strategy Intern on Lila's Chemistry team, you'll be at the forefront of commercializing AI-driven innovation across diverse chemistry applications spanning industrial, specialty chemical, and life science domains. You'll partner with Product and Commercial leaders to define market strategies, evaluate business opportunities, and support go-to-market efforts. This role is ideal for a technical MBA student eager to shape the future of innovation by translating cutting-edge chemistry into commercial impact.

What You'll Be Building

• Support product and go-to-market strategy development for chemistry platforms spanning industrial, specialty chemical, and life science applications (e.g., catalysts, coatings, functional additives, specialized formulations, biomolecules, therapeutics), with flexibility to contribute across domains based on business priorities
• Conduct market research and opportunity assessment to inform product roadmap prioritization and commercial strategy decisions
• Develop strategic materials including presentation decks, one-pagers, and frameworks (e.g., Target Product Profiles) that communicate technical capabilities and customer value
• Build and maintain structured databases and information systems to support product pipeline management and strategic decision-making
• Synthesize insights from customer discovery interviews and expert conversations to inform chemistry product strategy, positioning, and prioritization

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Currently pursuing an MBA, Ph.D., or equivalent graduate degree
• Excellent analytical thinking and ability to synthesize complex information
• Strong slide development and presentation skills with attention to visual clarity
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
• Ability to quickly understand scientific concepts in chemistry and convey them clearly to commercial stakeholders

Bonus Points For

• Background in chemistry, organic small molecules, or related physical/life sciences
• Experience with market research, strategy consulting, or product management in technical industries
• Familiarity with tools like Salesforce, Notion, or similar platforms
• Understanding of chemistry applications across industrial and life science markets (e.g., specialty chemicals, formulations, catalysis, therapeutics)
• Prior experience in chemicals, pharmaceuticals, advanced materials, or deep tech environments

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. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.

We’re All In

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