Your Impact at LILA

We’re seeking a Vice President / Head of Marketing focused on accelerating commercial growth and strategic partnerships. This role fuels pipeline, enables revenue, and increases partner-driven adoption across priority industry segments. Reporting line is flexible and can sit under our Chief Communication and works directly with the CEO/Founder, with day-to-day collaboration across Sales, Partnerships, Revenue, Product, and Scientific leadership. You will define and execute marketing motions that translate frontier science and technical capabilities into enterprise-ready programs that open doors, build trust, and close.

What You'll Be Building

Drive commercial demand and pipeline

• Build and run an integrated demand engine targeting senior scientific and business buyers (R&D leadership, innovation executives, technical decision-makers).
• Develop account-based marketing programs for enterprise and strategic accounts.
• Plan and optimize channel mix across digital, field events, executive programs, and partner-led efforts.
• Own reporting and iteration loops that connect marketing activity to pipeline outcomes.

Enable partnerships and ecosystem growth

• Create go-to-market motions with partners that generate qualified introductions and joint opportunities.
• Develop partner-facing materials, co-marketing kits, and joint event strategies.
• Identify and cultivate ecosystems that matter to LILA’s commercial expansion (scientific communities, industry networks, and mission-aligned institutions).

Build segment-specific positioning and sales enablement

• Translate LILA’s technical platform into clear, differentiated value propositions for priority verticals.
• Partner with Commercial leadership to define ICPs, buyer personas, and qualification narratives.
• Deliver sales enablement: pitch narratives, technical collateral, case studies, ROI framing, objection handling, and competitive context.
• Support longer enterprise sales cycles with the right proof points at each stage.

Produce content that supports revenue and credibility

• Develop high-leverage content (technical briefs, case studies, webinars, white papers, executive narratives).
• Package customer and partner outcomes into reusable assets that accelerate trust and decision-making.
• Ensure marketing outputs are consistent with LILA’s brand and narrative, in close coordination with Corporate Communications.

What success looks like (first 6–12 months)

• Clear commercial messaging and a repeatable set of sales assets for core segments.
• A measurable pipeline contribution engine tied to specific commercial targets.
• Partner co-marketing motions that produce qualified opportunities.
• A content and events strategy that materially improves credibility with enterprise scientific buyers.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• 10+ years in B2B marketing, with senior leadership experience in high-consideration enterprise or technical markets.
• Track record of driving pipeline and revenue outcomes (demand gen, ABM, field marketing, partner marketing).
• Strong product/segment marketing instincts for complex technical products (AI, deep tech, SaaS, biotech, industrial tech).
• Ability to work fluently with technical teams and translate technical truth into buyer-relevant value.
• Experience building functions and operating systems from early stage to scale.
• Strong analytical and operational discipline, with comfort owning metrics and performance reviews.
• Collaborative leadership style with a high degree of ownership.

Bonus Points For

• Experience in vendor/partner ecosystems, or experience scaling marketing in AI-for-science contexts.
• Background in academic or research-domain communications, or with PhD communities.