Product Manager

Summary

Join BenchSci as a Product Manager and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of their platform, which aims to accelerate drug development by 50%. You will be responsible for translating the platform vision into a product roadmap, deeply understanding the needs of scientists, and driving the development of features that address their pain points. This role requires a strong understanding of scientific data and products, experience in SaaS enterprise products, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams. BenchSci offers a remote-first culture, competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a commitment to professional development.

Requirements

• 3+ years as a Product Manager on SaaS enterprise products or platforms with technically complex solutions
• A proven track record in bringing clarity to a complex domain and driving alignment between technical and data teams, and the rest of the company
• Successfully taken new features from conception, through launch to adoption, engagement, and retention
• Experience influencing cross-functional teams to deliver outcomes over outputs
• Experience interacting directly with highly technical stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving skills - can deal with ambiguity, lead discovery efforts, prioritize, and drive execution on objectives, ensuring they ladder up to key strategies
• A data-informed decision-making process, and can identify new opportunities and provide sound reasoning for strategy decisions from that data

Responsibilities

• Be the voice of the user and customer within BenchSci
• Have a deep understanding of scientists’ needs and ensure they are taken into consideration when building our product
• Conduct end-user research to ensure we build features customers will love, including creating user personas, mapping user workflows, and identifying addressable pain points along those workflows
• Develop strategy and roadmap for our products, including further innovation and also optimization of the existing features and functionality
• Drive execution as part of a cross-functional team focused on this particular product including Design, Engineering, Science, Machine Learning, R&D, and Project Management
• Translate customer needs into user, technical, and data requirements and related resources and iterate quickly on the product
• Measure and report key metrics to internal stakeholders to demonstrate the value created by the team
• Communicate often - keep teams aligned on the purpose of our work
• Be expected to both represent our product in an unbiased way to end-users as well as communicate priorities to a variety of internal stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working on scientifically-informed data and products is preferred A PhD in biology (or a related field) and/or experience and knowledge of Biological Sciences (e.g., Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, etc.) or equivalent, would be a very strong asset in this role

Benefits

• An engaging remote-first culture
• A great compensation package that includes BenchSci equity options
• A robust  vacation policy plus an additional vacation day every year
• Company closures for 14 more days throughout the year
• Flex time for sick days, personal days, and religious holidays
• Comprehensive health and dental benefits
• Annual learning & development budget
• A one-time home office set-up budget to use upon joining BenchSci
• An annual lifestyle spending account allowance
• Generous parental leave benefits with a top-up plan or paid time off options
• The ability to save for your retirement coupled with a company match!