Benchling

1 day ago

Solution Consultant - R&D

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Job Summary

Partner with account executives and product teams to craft and present Benchling solutions for complex enterprise biotech customers. You’ll uncover customer needs, model scientific data, and demonstrate solutions tied to R&D workflows, lab instruments, and legacy systems. This pre-sales role builds credibility with senior scientific and IT leaders, supports deal strategy, and creates reusable solutions, content, and trainings.

Location: Zurich

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

•Partner with account executives, SC peers, and leadership to create account and deal strategies and plan customer engagements that lead to compelling solutions.
•Discover and manage customer needs and requirements tied to decision criteria and key business issues.
•Craft solution designs using Benchling capabilities, data models, and R&D best practices that fit customer technology landscapes.
•Present and demonstrate solutions, manage questions and objections, and address concerns while considering alternatives.
•Collaborate with product management to inform roadmap direction and provide reusable solutions, content, trainings, and mentorship for other SCs.

Travel: Medium travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CHF 97,750 - 156,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Parental LeaveHome OfficeHealth InsuranceLearning BudgetPaid Leave

Key Requirements

•Master’s in Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Chemistry or similar Life Science field, with at least 4 years of work experience (ideally customer facing).
•Hands-on antibody discovery and engineering experience (bench scientist or technical support for biologics teams).
•Experience with scientific/informatics software such as LIMS and ELN (familiarity with antibody engineering software is a plus).
•Ability to model scientific data and craft solutions based on product knowledge and industry best practices; experience with research instruments, reagents, or software is desired.
•Fluent English; German or French is a plus. Willingness to travel to customer sites 25–30%.

Experience:4+ yearsBiotechLife sciences

Education:Master's in Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Chemistry

Skills:Stakeholder managementPersuasive communicationTrusted advisingAgilityMentoring

Languages:EnglishGermanFrench

Tech Stack:AI agentsAI modelsLIMSELN

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

Glassdoor: 3.5

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor

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Benchling

1 day ago

Solution Consultant - R&D

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 12 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Zurich

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

•Partner with account executives, SC peers, and leadership to create account and deal strategies and plan customer engagements that lead to compelling solutions.
•Discover and manage customer needs and requirements tied to decision criteria and key business issues.
•Craft solution designs using Benchling capabilities, data models, and R&D best practices that fit customer technology landscapes.
•Present and demonstrate solutions, manage questions and objections, and address concerns while considering alternatives.
•Collaborate with product management to inform roadmap direction and provide reusable solutions, content, trainings, and mentorship for other SCs.

Travel: Medium travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CHF 97,750 - 156,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Parental LeaveHome OfficeHealth InsuranceLearning BudgetPaid Leave

Key Requirements

•Master’s in Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Chemistry or similar Life Science field, with at least 4 years of work experience (ideally customer facing).
•Hands-on antibody discovery and engineering experience (bench scientist or technical support for biologics teams).
•Experience with scientific/informatics software such as LIMS and ELN (familiarity with antibody engineering software is a plus).
•Ability to model scientific data and craft solutions based on product knowledge and industry best practices; experience with research instruments, reagents, or software is desired.
•Fluent English; German or French is a plus. Willingness to travel to customer sites 25–30%.

Experience:4+ yearsBiotechLife sciences

Education:Master's in Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Chemistry

Skills:Stakeholder managementPersuasive communicationTrusted advisingAgilityMentoring

Languages:EnglishGermanFrench

Tech Stack:AI agentsAI modelsLIMSELN

Company Brief

Benchling

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

Glassdoor: 3.5

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor