Product Manager, Platform

Benchling
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 163,000 - 307,000 annuallyFunction: Product ManagementSkills: ["Systems thinking","Product direction","Customer discovery","Cross-functional communication","Platform thinking"]

Own Schemas for Benchling’s AI platform—setting product direction and incrementally shipping primitives like schema types, computed fields, constraints, and data versioning. Partner closely with customers and internal teams (Engineering, Design, Customer Experience, Field, Sales, and Marketing) to translate structured data needs into roadmap priorities. Drive persona and JTBD discovery, balancing long-term platform stability with rapid iteration that helps AI agents and models deliver value.

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Product Manager, Platform

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Job Summary

Own Schemas for Benchling’s AI platform—setting product direction and incrementally shipping primitives like schema types, computed fields, constraints, and data versioning. Partner closely with customers and internal teams (Engineering, Design, Customer Experience, Field, Sales, and Marketing) to translate structured data needs into roadmap priorities. Drive persona and JTBD discovery, balancing long-term platform stability with rapid iteration that helps AI agents and models deliver value.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set product direction for Schemas and ship incrementally, balancing fast prototyping with platform stability needs.
  • •Track how customers use Schemas and build personas and job-to-be-done context for user types.
  • •Bring customer “why” to Engineering and Design and partner closely to ship new capabilities.
  • •Champion structured, well-modeled data as the foundation for AI value across Benchling.
  • •Partner with Customer Experience, Field, Sales, and Marketing to bring customer signal into the roadmap early.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 163,000 - 307,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Energized by platform work and systems thinking, comfortable building abstractions ahead of need.
  • •Designed, owned, or significantly evolved a data-modeling, schema, or configuration system used by external developers or technical admins.
  • •Built discovery artifacts like personas and JTBD frameworks from scratch, with deep demonstrated discovery practice.
  • •Track record balancing long-term vision with incremental shipping.
  • •Strong communication across technical and executive audiences; B2B SaaS or developer-platform background preferred.
Experience:BiotechR&DB2B SaaSDeveloper platformAI
Skills:Systems thinkingProduct directionCustomer discoveryCross-functional communicationPlatform thinking
Tech Stack:AIAI agentsData modelingSchemasComputed fieldsFieldsetsConstraintsData versioning

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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