product
Posted May 14Product Manager, Developer Platform
at Benchling
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Requirements
- We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
- AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years.
- But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
- Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D.
- Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows.
- We’re building an AI scientist for our customers.
- AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day.
- As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role.
- experience and as AI transforms how scientists work, the stakes have never been higher.
- The world's most innovative life sciences teams are already building agentic R&D workflows on top of Benchling, and they need a platform that can keep up.
- You'll work cross-functionally with Solutions Engineering, Partnerships, and Customer Success to build the platform foundation that makes this possible. - Developers who try to build on Benchling today hit walls fast — in our docs, our APIs, and our support.
- QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: - 3-5 years of product management experience, with hands-on ownership of API, SDK, or developer platform products - Technical fluency: you can read code, review API specs, and have credible conversations with engineers.
- experience and are constantly thinking about how AI-era tooling (MCPs, LLM-friendly APIs, agentic workflows) can supercharge what developers can do with Benchling - Familiarity with the modern developer stack — APIs, SDKs, documentation, and developer onboarding; you understand the tradeoffs and know what good looks like - Strong communicator: you write crisp
- requirements and can present clearly to engineers, stakeholders, and customers alike Nice to Have: - Familiarity with the life sciences or enterprise SaaS domain -
- experience at a company with a platform business model or marketplace HOW WE WORK We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration.
Benefits
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
Additional details
- Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps.
- Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.
- We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves.
- Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.
- This role sits at the intersection of systems integration and developer
- Your job is to understand what they're building, identify the gaps before they become blockers, and make the case internally for what needs to get built next.
- You'll own the developer platform roadmap, serve as the internal voice of the external developer, and ensure that customer and partner learnings shape priorities across the Build org.
- This is a role for someone who is always six months ahead, anticipating what cutting-edge life sciences teams will need to build next, and making sure Benchling is ready when they get there.
- RESPONSIBILITIES - Own the end-to-end roadmap for Benchling's developer-facing products: REST APIs, MCPs, SDKs, API playground, code examples, and code recipes. - Our most sophisticated customers are building agentic R&D workflows on top of Benchling and need primitives that don't exist yet.
- You'll define what those primitives are, get them built, and make sure developers can actually use them. - Our partner ecosystem (Quilt, Calira, Code Ocean, Seqera, and others) needs extensibility that scales beyond one-off integrations.