Executive Assistant to Sales Leadership (Contract)

Benchling
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridContractUSD 70 - 80 hourlyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Confidentiality","Organizational skills","Communication","Emotional intelligence","Proactive problem-solving"]

Provide strategic and operational executive support to senior sales leaders, partnering closely with the Head of Go-to-Market and VPs across AMER and EMEA. Manage complex, confidential calendar priorities across time zones, drive delegation for high-priority tasks, coordinate domestic/international travel and expenses, and lead logistics for high-profile Sales events, QBRs, and customer meeting programs.

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Benchling
Benchling
16 hours ago

Executive Assistant to Sales Leadership (Contract)

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Job Summary

Provide strategic and operational executive support to senior sales leaders, partnering closely with the Head of Go-to-Market and VPs across AMER and EMEA. Manage complex, confidential calendar priorities across time zones, drive delegation for high-priority tasks, coordinate domestic/international travel and expenses, and lead logistics for high-profile Sales events, QBRs, and customer meeting programs.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Contract · 6 months
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Perform extensive calendar management and prioritization for senior executives across multiple time zones.
  • •Prepare domestic and international travel arrangements, itineraries, and timely expense filings.
  • •Manage daily correspondence with a high degree of confidentiality and professionalism.
  • •Lead planning and coordination for presentations, meetings, and dissemination of strategic information.
  • •Own end-to-end logistics for Sales events (including QBRs across AMER and EMEA) and manage the executive customer-meeting program during the annual customer conference.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 70 - 80 hourly

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years supporting VP or C-level leaders, ideally in enterprise SaaS sales or tech organizations.
  • •Proven success managing multiple executives with competing, high-stakes priorities.
  • •Experience managing multi-day corporate events (50–100+ people) including budget ownership and vendor/contract coordination.
  • •Comfort supporting a fast-moving, metrics-driven sales organization with frequent last-minute schedule changes.
  • •Exceptional organizational skills and a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with polished communication and discretion.
Experience:7+ yearsEnterprise SaaSTechBiotech
Skills:ConfidentialityOrganizational skillsCommunicationEmotional intelligenceProactive problem-solving
Tech Stack:Google WorkspaceSlackZoomNavanSalesforceZIP

Company Brief

Benchling
Provides a cloud-based R&D Cloud and laboratory informatics platform that centralizes scientific data, streamlines experiments, and accelerates biotechnology and life-science research and development for biotech, pharma, and academic teams.
Industry: Biotech
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2012
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