Product Manager, Benchling
Platform
$163-307k
Offers Equity
More information about location
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
$163-307k
Offers Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology.
Role
Who you are
- Energized by platform work and systems thinking; comfortable building the right abstraction ahead of need
- Has designed, owned, or significantly evolved a data-modeling, schema, or configuration system used by external developers or technical admins — not just consumed one as a feature
- Becomes the go-to person for customers, field, and engineers — not a router to engineering
- Deep, demonstrated discovery practice: has built personas and JTBD frameworks from scratch, not just used ones handed to them
- Track record balancing long-term vision with incremental shipping
- Strong communicator across technical and executive audiences; B2B SaaS or developer-platform background preferred
- Genuine curiosity about the science behind the data. You don't need a science background, but you should want one by the end of your first quarter here
What the job involves
- AI is only as good as the data underneath it. Schemas is the configuration layer where customers model their scientific data and processes. It's the customer-defined data model that makes Benchling different from a point solution, and the contract every other system (internal apps, integrations, AI agents) relies on when reading or writing to Benchling. Get it right, and AI inherits a solid foundation; get it wrong, every layer above inherits the problem
- As Schemas PM, you own the primitives (schema types, computed fields, fieldsets, constraints, static properties, data versioning) that every other team at Benchling builds on top of. This is one of the highest-leverage, most technically interesting roles on the platform team, and one we're investing in now as AI features across Benchling increasingly depend on the quality of the underlying data model
- Set product direction for Schemas and ship toward it incrementally, balancing fast prototyping with the platform stability admins and developers depend on
- Relentlessly track how customers use Schemas — where it delights, where it fails — and build sharp personas and job-to-be-done context for each user type (admins, scientists, computational teams, internal and external developers)
- Bring customer "why," not just feature requests, back to Engineering and Design; partner with them closely to ship new capabilities
- Champion structured, well-modeled data as the foundation for AI value across Benchling, anticipating what schema consumers will need next
- Partner with Customer Experience, Field, Sales, and Marketing to get customer signal into the roadmap early
- Partner closely with other Platform and Apps PMs — schemas underpin nearly every other platform surface, so alignment on sequencing and shared abstractions matters as much as your own roadmap
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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