ROLE OVERVIEW

As the Design Leader across the Platform and Automation and Analytics initiatives, you will be responsible for guiding a skilled and dynamic team of designers in redefining how scientists do their work. Our Platform provides the tools and technology for admins and developers to configure, extend and integrate Benchling to support the cutting edge science they do. Automation and Analytics unifies and automates data workflows to help biotech companies accelerate research and development and optimize their processes.

You will collaborate with fellow leaders in Product and Engineering to gain insights into customer needs, shape our product strategy, facilitate seamless execution and maximize the value of our solutions. Additionally, you will be instrumental in providing clarity and fostering growth within your design team.

An ideal person for this team will have an appetite for tackling highly complex, technical problems and demonstrate strong systems thinking, with expertise in ensuring consistency and scalability across a complex product ecosystem and building and maintaining design systems.

This is a hybrid role, based in our San Francisco or Boston offices, and requires in-office presence 3x per week.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with leadership teams across Product, Engineering, Design, and Strategy to build and refine our strategy, organization, product roadmaps, and approach to execution
• Work closely with our customers to understand how they’re using our product, and what we can do to make them more productive
• Enable your designers to deliver meaningful solutions, helping them work through uncertainty and obstacles
• Grow the next generation of design leadership within your team
• Contribute to developing a culture of design in a company that recognizes user experience as a key differentiato

QUALIFICATIONS

• You’ve successfully built and managed world-class enterprise SaaS Design teams supporting complex platform products, and ideally have experience working on developer or analytics tools
• You have 7+ years experience as a product designer with 3+ years of experience as a people manager
• You demonstrate strong systems thinking, with expertise in ensuring consistency and scalability across a complex product ecosystem and building and maintaining design systems

• You thrive in the challenge of distilling clarity and focus from ambiguity and complexity, and are a strong problem solver who can gather, prioritize, and drive execution on customer and business requirements
• You possess influential leadership and interpersonal skills that enable you to build strong relationships with customers, your direct team, company peers, and company leadership. You are excellent at listening to others and articulating ideas in written and verbal form, both for internal and external communication. You ask for and give direct feedback.
• You have a growth mindset that allows you to change your mind and readily admit mistakes
• Familiarity with biotech and/or the scientific software industry is a plus

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 $188,000 - $255,000. 

• Competitive salary and equity
• Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
• Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
• Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
• Monthly 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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