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Role Overview

Benchling is expanding into additional modalities including chemistry, and has a plan to rapidly bring tools to the chemistry market. This is a major step forward, as these capabilities are among the most often requested by our customers, and they align with Benchling's work on antibodies and other modalities as well as development. The chemistry team will build from our existing support for molecules toward a full chemistry solution, integrated with our notebook and our core registry product. Benchling's customers interact with our products daily, and they trust them with their most important assets. Chemistry is a full‑stack team on a mission to accelerate science by creating powerful, intuitive tools that support a broad range of scientific workflows. We obsess over quality and data integrity.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop, and lead a team of exceptional engineers.
• Partner closely with product and design to define roadmap and long‑term product strategy.
• Hold an unreasonable high bar for product quality as the teams execute their work.
• Partner closely with engineers on each team to ensure that we make excellent technical decisions as we lay the foundations for these new products.
• Meet with customers to understand their science and what they need from Benchling.
• Contribute to engineering‑wide organizational improvements as part of the management team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing high‑performing engineering teams.
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with experience as a technical lead on projects that involve multiple engineers across multiple quarters.
• Managed engineering teams that were responsible for a customer‑focused product.
• Managed geographically distributed teams.
• Grown high‑trajectory, early‑to‑mid‑career engineers into leaders with company‑wide impact.
• Experience (and enjoy!) working directly with customers, product, design and other internal teams and stakeholders to inform your team's roadmap.
• Interest in biotech!

How We Work

We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in‑office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on‑site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).

Salary Range

The base salary range is $195,904 to $265,046. Benchling takes a market‑based approach to pay. The candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job‑related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and work location.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
• Fertility healthcare and family‑forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Commuter benefits for in‑office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
• Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
• Monthly Wellness stipend
• Learning and development stipend
• Generous and flexible vacation
• Company‑wide Winter holiday shutdown
• Sabbaticals for 5‑year and 10‑year anniversaries

Benchling welcomes everyone. We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.