AI Partnerships Lead, Benchling
$173.4-234.6k
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
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Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$173.4-234.6k
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years combined experience across partnerships, business development, enterprise sales, corporate development, consulting, investment banking, venture capital, life sciences, tech, or startups
- Bias for action and comfort with ambiguity; energized by building the playbook while running live deals
- Track record of managing senior external relationships and engaging credibly at the executive level, including with CEOs, CFOs, and technical leadership
- Strong knowledge of AI/ML and the ability to translate between research and commercial audiences; a technical background is not required, but you should be comfortable in substantive conversations with researchers, engineers, and product teams
- Comfort operating across the full deal lifecycle: sourcing and qualification, discovery, negotiation, contracting alongside Legal, and post-signature delivery
- Strong written communication, with the ability to translate complex and uncertain ideas into clear, concise, and decisive recommendations
- Demonstrated engagement and relationships across the AI ecosystem is a plus
- Deep curiosity about how AI is reshaping R&D; prior work experience in life sciences or a degree in a scientific discipline (biology, chemistry, bioengineering, or similar) is a plus
What the job involves
- Benchling is the R&D Cloud for life sciences
- Our platform powers scientific work at thousands of academic labs and biopharma companies, and we sit at the intersection of AI and biology as both accelerate
- We are looking for an AI Partnerships Lead to own Benchling’s most important AI relationships and drive the commercial partnerships that define our role in the AI ecosystem
- This is a high-ownership, client-facing role
- You will lead partnerships with model labs, scientific AI companies, and adjacent infrastructure partners; structure and close deals spanning data licensing, product integrations, and co-development arrangements; and build the playbook for how Benchling engages the AI ecosystem end-to-end
- The role spans both directions of the data economy: helping partners access Benchling's scientific data at scale, and sourcing external data and models that power Benchling's own AI products
- You will work closely with Product, Legal, Finance, and GTM internally, and represent Benchling to sophisticated external technical stakeholders
- Partner Ownership: Own the end-to-end relationship with Benchling's most important AI partners across frontier model labs, scientific model providers, and infrastructure partners
- Data Licensing: Structure commercial arrangements across the data ecosystem in close partnership with Benchling's technical AI team, sourcing the external data and models they need and licensing Benchling's data and platform capabilities to external partners
- Broader Deal Execution: Structure, negotiate, and close additional commercial deals across product integrations, co-marketing, and co-development. Work across Legal, Finance, Product, and GTM to turn partnership commitments into product and commercial reality
- Playbook Design: Build a repeatable playbook for how Benchling engages the AI ecosystem: pipeline, pricing, deal structures, and success metrics
- Ecosystem Sourcing: Source, diligence, and place clear bets on the next generation of AI/ML companies, from stealth-stage startups to public infrastructure players, and shape which ones become Benchling partners
- Industry Presence: Represent Benchling at events, in the field, and in front of senior executives at every partner you own
Our take
As the pioneer of the R&D Cloud, Benchling offers a cloud-based informatics platform tailored for biotechnology. Its platform enables scientists across the globe to make breakthrough discoveries and bring next-gen biotechnology to market.
There’s a sincerity and consciousness to Benchling’s approach that stands out. This has led to the company being adopted by over 200,000 scientists from 1,000+ companies and 7,500 academic and research institutions globally (including 23andMe, Moderna, and the U.S. Department of Defense).
The rapidly advancing Biotechnology industry was at the forefront of the so-called “fourth industrial revolution”, with the industry driving $2 to $4 trillion per year of economic impact over the next 20 years.
Benchling has put itself in a position of immense value within the industry with its expanding offerings. And now, off the back of over $400 million in total funding, the company is seeing accelerated growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES F
Apr 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $411.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Robust healthcare benefits
- Family-forming benefits
- Four months of fully paid parental leave
- Retirement benefits
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sajith Wickramasekara
(Co-Founder & CEO)Sajith studied at MIT before spending 2 years as a Research Assistant at Duke University Medical Centre and Liquidia Technologies. They used this biotechnology understanding to found Benchling in June 2012, serving as CEO since.
Ashu Singhal
(Co-Founder & President)They previously co-founded Hotspots.io which was later acquired by Twitter in 2012. After this, became Staff Software Engineer at Twitter for 2 years, leaving to co-found Benchling.
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