ROLE OVERVIEW

Benchling is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Data Input team within the App Foundations pillar. Benchling is on a mission to accelerate the pace of life sciences research and development. To do that, we build a suite of tools that scientists use daily to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. The tools we build must be optimized to make scientists more efficient in their work, across a broad spectrum of research, development, and manufacturing tasks. This is where the Data Input team comes in.

The Data Input team exists to build a platform and user experiences to help lab operators more efficiently perform their work. They do this by introducing new “scientifically aware” data models and enabling Benchling customers to connect these together in ways that uniquely represent their work. The team develops the tooling that enables scientists to input, transform, and propagate their laboratory data downstream. We focus on both the user experience of scientists working in the lab as well as the ability of other software developers to integrate the components we create into their applications.

This is a new team at Benchling, which is working on both greenfield development and is supporting applications which over 90% of Benchling customers use. This role is ideal for managers who have a track record of creating leverage beyond just their own team by building reusable components.

RESPONSIBILITIES  

• Recruit, develop, and lead a team of exceptional product engineers.
• Partner closely with product and design to define roadmap and long-term product strategy.
• Hold an unreasonably 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 & what they need from Benchling.
• Contribute to engineering-wide organizational improvements as part of the management team.

QUALIFICATIONS  

• 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager.
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with experience as a technical lead on projects that involve multiple engineers across multiple quarters
• Experience building cloud-based web applications, ideally on both the front- and back-end
• Grown high-trajectory, early-to-mid-career engineers into leaders with company-wide impact.
• Experience (and enjoy!) working directly with customers to inform your team’s roadmap.
• A track record of working with cross-functional partners in product, design, sales, and marketing.
• Strong writing skills.
• Interest in biotech!
• Willing to work onsite in our San Francisco office 3 days a week.

SALARY RANGE

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. For this role the base salary range is $186,575.00 to $277,610.00.

Total Compensation includes the following:

• Competitive salary and equity
• 100% premiums covered for health, dental, and vision for employees
• Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Commuter benefits
• Home office stipend
• Mental health benefits + Wellness stipend
• Learning and development stipend
• Generous and flexible vacation
• Company-wide Summer & Winter holiday shutdown
• Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries

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