Head of Product Design, Benchling
$250-350k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Be an early applicant
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$250-350k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology and empower their global customers to get to milestones & market faster.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or a related field
- Proven experience (7+ years min) in product design, with a significant portion in a leadership role
- Strong portfolio demonstrating a track record of delivering successful, user-centered design solutions
- Excellent understanding of design principles, methodologies, and tools
- Experience with user research methods, usability testing, and data-driven design decisions
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts and decisions to various stakeholders
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on design work
- Familiarity with biotech and/or the scientific software industry is a plus
What the job involves
- As the Head of Product Design, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of the Benchling product experience
- You will be responsible for leading our design team, setting the vision for product design, and ensuring that our products are not only functional but also delightful and intuitive for our users
- You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering and product management, to create a cohesive and compelling user experience
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of talented designers, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and excellence
- Define and communicate a clear vision for the product design, ensuring alignment with the company’s strategic goals
- Oversee the end-to-end design process, from user research and conceptualization to prototyping and final implementation
- Champion user-centered design principles, ensuring that user needs and feedback are at the forefront of the design process
- Collaborate with product management and engineering to prioritize design initiatives and ensure timely delivery of high-quality design solutions
- Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continually enhance the design team’s capabilities
- How You’ll Succeed:
- Beyond practicing empathy with our customers, you have the curiosity to gain subject matter expertise and understanding of the needs of users and buyers in the fast-changing and technically complex fields of biotechnology and chemistry
- You will have a drive to question assumptions and validate hypotheses, identify cross-product overlaps to approach as one solution, and creatively work to solve complex scientific workflow and data management problems
- You will advocate for and drive cultural change around design thinking / design led product development. You will partner with the Head of Product to drive healthy, collaborative relationships between designers and product managers that achieve great outcomes for our customers
Our take
As the pioneer of the R&D Cloud, Benchling offers a cloud-based informatics platform tailored for biotechnology. Its platform enables scientists across the globe to make breakthrough discoveries and bring next-gen biotechnology to market.
There’s a sincerity and consciousness to Benchling’s approach that stands out. This has led to the company being adopted by over 200,000 scientists from 1,000+ companies and 7,500 academic and research institutions globally (including 23andMe, Moderna, and the U.S. Department of Defense).
The rapidly advancing Biotechnology industry was at the forefront of the so-called “fourth industrial revolution”, with the industry driving $2 to $4 trillion per year of economic impact over the next 20 years.
Benchling has put itself in a position of immense value within the industry with its expanding offerings. Off the back of over $400 million in total funding, the company is seeing accelerated growth
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES F
Apr 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $411.9m
Company benefits
- 4 months paid parental leave
- 401k plan
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Work from home opportunities
- 100% premiums covered for health, dental, & vision
- Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
Company values
- Constant Curiosity - Like the scientists we serve, we approach life with a sense of constant curiosity
- Scientist First - We’re relentlessly focused on taking a scientist-first approach
- Impact Driven - We commit our time, energy, and resources to efforts that will drive maximum impact
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Sajith Wickramasekara
(CEO)Sajith studied at MIT before spending 2 years as a Research Assistant at Duke University Medical Centre and Liquidia Technologies. They used this biotechnology understanding to found Benchling in June 2012, serving as CEO since.
Ashu Singhal
(President)They previously co-founded Hotspots.io which was later acquired by Twitter in 2012. After this, became Staff Software Engineer at Twitter for 2 years, leaving to co-found Benchling.
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