Account Manager

We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.

When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. 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. 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’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. 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. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Benchling believes in putting our customers at the center of everything we do. We strive to provide an exceptional experience for our customers and our users from the first touchpoint, through our implementations, and once they are live. We take pride in our world-class renewal rates, and Account Management is an essential part of this equation. To keep up with our rapidly expanding growth, we have a team of seasoned Account Managers with experience in Life Sciences, who can help grow the organization, develop our processes, and drive execution.

Our Account Manager team works alongside our Professional Services, Product, Sales and technical teams to help our most strategic customers enhance the value of their Benchling investments. Account Managers will engage regularly and strategize directly with our customers to ensure long term value. Alongside the client, they will develop strategies and tactics to understand the health of the client, own renewal negotiations and execution and drive expansion of success packages. Through regular engagements with the clients, Account Managers will identify clients who can benefit from a product or technical subject matter expert related to areas of improvement, and direct them to the approapriate team to drive progress on customer initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build and maintain productive relationships with key stakeholders across Scientific and IT functional areas including customer champions and economic buyers

• Experience managing complex customers with highly technical implementations

• Utilize customer engagement models throughout the lifetime customer journey to ensure customer satisfaction, governance, expansion opportunity in order to maximize value.

• Use strong processes and systems are in place so that trends in customer contraction and churn are identified early, communicated with the appropriate audience, and appropriate follow-up action is taken

• Manage the renewal experience,identify and define client challenges or new scientific business case opportunities aligned with the customers’ objectives and vision with support from the extended Benchling team to client success and avoid contraction/churn.

• Experience negotiating upwards of $100,000 in ARR for renewals and expansions in collaboration with sales to drive accurate forecasting around adoption, expansion and retention.

QUALIFICATIONS

• BS or M.Sc. in Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biotechnology, Bioengineering or experience working in the Life Sciences field.

• 2+ years of Account management, Customer Success, Renewal Management, Sales, Professional Services, or Consulting experience in a SaaS software environment with the ability to forge relationships with users, decision makers, and influential stakeholders

• 2+ years commercial experience in negotiations utilizing skills to handle contract discussions and ensure favorable outcomes for both the customer and the company

• An understanding of Life Sciences R&D processes and scientific concepts is preferred. Demonstrated ability to immediately interface and build trust with Scientists, as well as Director & VP Level Business and IT leaders in top Biotech and Pharma companies

• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate confidently and concisely in verbal, written and presentation formats to all types of audiences

• Self-motivated, independent, adaptable, and can thrive in a fast-paced startup environment

• Ability to travel 10-20% based on customer needs

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).

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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.