Product Analytics & Data Science Leader, Benchling
$191.3-258.8k
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3 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
$191.3-258.8k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology and empower their global customers to get to milestones & market faster.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will enjoy balancing deep dives into data with guiding and mentoring a small team of data professionals
- 5+ years of relevant experience in data analytics or data science, including fluency with tools like SQL, Python or R, and cloud data environments
- 3+ years of experience managing individual contributors
- You’ve led small teams and are comfortable balancing hands-on work with people management
- You excel at stakeholder management, particularly in navigating competing priorities and advocating for data-informed work
- You’re comfortable working within constraints and know how to drive meaningful progress in low-investment environments
- You enjoy translating complex data into actionable insights and take pride in making systems and people work better together
- Bonus: Experience working in or with life sciences R&D and/or enterprise SaaS organizations
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a player-coach to lead our small, but impactful Product Analytics & Data Science team
- This role blends hands-on analytical work with people leadership, stakeholder management, and strategic prioritization
- You’ll oversee a small team of experienced data engineers and help hire a new data analyst, while personally contributing to high-leverage data projects
- You’ll partner closely with Product, Customer Experience, Field, and Business Systems teams to connect product usage with customer value — helping Benchling serve both our internal stakeholders and external users more effectively
- This role is suited to someone who enjoys operational stability, is energized by cross-functional collaboration, and can help advocate for data-driven work even when headcount and resources are limited but where sustained, meaningful impact is both possible and expected
- Lead and support a small, dedicated team of data engineers and analysts through mentorship, technical guidance, and priority setting
- Roll up your sleeves to personally own and execute on key projects, especially those that cross organizational boundaries (e.g. customer success, field operations, and product)
- Define and maintain a roadmap of high-impact data work that supports both product insights and internal business operations
- Serve as the connective tissue between product data and customer-facing teams by helping integrate insights across systems and functions
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders to scope, prioritize, and execute analytical work in service of concrete business and product decisions
- Champion data quality, documentation, and rigor across everything your team touches
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. Off the back of over $400 million in total funding, the company is seeing accelerated growth
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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
- 4 months paid parental leave
- 401k plan
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Work from home opportunities
- 100% premiums covered for health, dental, & vision
- Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sajith Wickramasekara
(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
(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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