We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years. But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.
We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are seeking a motivated and results-driven Enterprise Account Executive to join our Enterprise team. In this role, you will be responsible for driving new and/or renewal business into different lines of the business within your designated 1-3 of the Top 50 global pharmaceutical accounts. You will focus on building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders across various personas within an account (IT, Science/R&D, Data Science). You will play a crucial role in expanding our customer base and ensuring successful sales outcomes through effective pipeline generation, account management and accurate sales forecasting.
This is a remote position; however, candidates must currently reside in or near the city you are applying to.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Pipeline Generation: Creating 80% of your pipeline by identifying new business opportunities and engaging with multiple personas within the prospect/customer base in partnership with your SDR. Utilize various strategies and tools to generate leads and move them through the sales cycle.
- Sales Forecasting: Develop and maintain accurate sales forecasts (+/- 10 of goal),, leveraging data to inform decision-making and ensure predictable revenue outcomes with the goal of consistent attainment of revenue targets.
- Solution Selling: Effectively communicate the value of our platform, tailoring presentations and proposals to meet the specific needs of each prospect.
- Negotiation and Closing: Lead negotiations with potential clients, by thoughtfully addressing key stakeholders including multiple personas and CxO in the buyer journey, while navigating organizational complexities, addressing objections and securing new business agreements.
- Account Management: Work across multiple personas within an account to understand their unique needs and align Benchling’s solutions with their business objectives.
- Collaboration: Partner with internal teams (marketing, product, customer success, etc) and external teams (GSIs, AWS, etc) to ensure a seamless experience for clients and drive long-term customer satisfaction.
- Continuous Learning: Stay informed about industry trends, competitors, and emerging technologies to maintain a competitive edge in the market. You are a curious learner who is striving to elevate their craft to the next level.
- Process: Drive the sales process through Pipeline Generation (PG), Leading Indicators to drive repeatable success, 3 Why’s/MEDDICC & ability to build champions across the user community, middle management & ‘C’ Suite. Maintain account integrity and opportunity data within company systems; Salesforce.
QUALIFICATIONS
You are drawn to our mission and you want to help Benchling win new business across your respective accounts. You are committed to working in a collaborative environment, working together as a team. You have a love for working in a fast-paced startup/pre IPO environment and taking the initiative to get stuff done and try new things. You are passionate about powering new possibilities in biotech faster.
- Proven experience as a global enterprise/major accounts seller, preferably within a data management, workflow SaaS or technology-driven environment that sells to multiple personas across IT & various Line of business.
- Demonstrated ability to drive pipeline generation and manage complex sales cycles of 7+ figure deals.
- Strong sales forecasting skills with a track record of meeting or exceeding targets.
- Demonstrated success in selling products or solutions that typically fall outside of pre-established budgets, with a proven ability to build a compelling business case and influence purchasing decisions.
- Experience working with diverse personas within an account (from technical decision makers, business decision makers & CxO execs), with the ability to influence decision-making at all the levels.
- Dynamic communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Self-motivated, with a strong drive to achieve and exceed goals.
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
- Ability to leverage the MEDDICC sales methodology is highly recommended
- Knowledge of the life sciences industry, including: R&D, and/or IT functions is preferred but not required.
#LI-Remote #BI-Remote #LI-SF1
Benchling welcomes everyone.
We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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Sales
61 days ago
Enterprise Account Executive
Benchling · San Francisco, California, United States
Enterprise Account Executive
Location
San Francisco, CA; Chicago, IL; Indianapolis, IN; Los Angeles, CA
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Remote
Department
Sales
Compensation
$140K – $200K • Offers Equity • Offers Commission • This role is eligible to participate in Benchling's commission plan, it is common for employees in this role to receive total on-target earnings of $280,000 to $400,000.
U.S. Benefits
Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, 401(k)+ employer match, wellness, commuter, and more.
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.
Overview
Application
We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years. But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.
We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are seeking a motivated and results-driven Enterprise Account Executive to join our Enterprise team. In this role, you will be responsible for driving new and/or renewal business into different lines of the business within your designated 1-3 of the Top 50 global pharmaceutical accounts. You will focus on building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders across various personas within an account (IT, Science/R&D, Data Science). You will play a crucial role in expanding our customer base and ensuring successful sales outcomes through effective pipeline generation, account management and accurate sales forecasting.
This is a remote position; however, candidates must currently reside in or near the city you are applying to.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Pipeline Generation: Creating 80% of your pipeline by identifying new business opportunities and engaging with multiple personas within the prospect/customer base in partnership with your SDR. Utilize various strategies and tools to generate leads and move them through the sales cycle.
Sales Forecasting: Develop and maintain accurate sales forecasts (+/- 10 of goal),, leveraging data to inform decision-making and ensure predictable revenue outcomes with the goal of consistent attainment of revenue targets.
Solution Selling: Effectively communicate the value of our platform, tailoring presentations and proposals to meet the specific needs of each prospect.
Negotiation and Closing: Lead negotiations with potential clients, by thoughtfully addressing key stakeholders including multiple personas and CxO in the buyer journey, while navigating organizational complexities, addressing objections and securing new business agreements.
Account Management: Work across multiple personas within an account to understand their unique needs and align Benchling’s solutions with their business objectives.
Collaboration: Partner with internal teams (marketing, product, customer success, etc) and external teams (GSIs, AWS, etc) to ensure a seamless experience for clients and drive long-term customer satisfaction.
Continuous Learning: Stay informed about industry trends, competitors, and emerging technologies to maintain a competitive edge in the market. You are a curious learner who is striving to elevate their craft to the next level.
Process: Drive the sales process through Pipeline Generation (PG), Leading Indicators to drive repeatable success, 3 Why’s/MEDDICC & ability to build champions across the user community, middle management & ‘C’ Suite. Maintain account integrity and opportunity data within company systems; Salesforce.
QUALIFICATIONS
You are drawn to our mission and you want to help Benchling win new business across your respective accounts. You are committed to working in a collaborative environment, working together as a team. You have a love for working in a fast-paced startup/pre IPO environment and taking the initiative to get stuff done and try new things. You are passionate about powering new possibilities in biotech faster.
Proven experience as a global enterprise/major accounts seller, preferably within a data management, workflow SaaS or technology-driven environment that sells to multiple personas across IT & various Line of business.
Demonstrated ability to drive pipeline generation and manage complex sales cycles of 7+ figure deals.
Strong sales forecasting skills with a track record of meeting or exceeding targets.
Demonstrated success in selling products or solutions that typically fall outside of pre-established budgets, with a proven ability to build a compelling business case and influence purchasing decisions.
Experience working with diverse personas within an account (from technical decision makers, business decision makers & CxO execs), with the ability to influence decision-making at all the levels.
Dynamic communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
Self-motivated, with a strong drive to achieve and exceed goals.
Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
Ability to leverage the MEDDICC sales methodology is highly recommended
Knowledge of the life sciences industry, including: R&D, and/or IT functions is preferred but not required.
#LI-Remote #BI-Remote #LI-SF1
Benchling welcomes everyone.
We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years. But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.
We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.
ROLE OVERVIEW
The Solution Consultant - Business Value (SCBV) ensures that Benchling’s top customers get a solution that meets their needs precisely and delivers value aligned to the customer's business priorities. Their primary focus will be to engage with customers and executives to help articulate the tangible, strategic, and financial impact that Benchling can deliver to their organizations. SCBV deliverables will ultimately drive the customer’s decision on whether or not Benchling is selected as their solution.
SCBVs will have a strong executive presence and must have prior successful executive interaction. They are particularly adept at combining an in-depth understanding of the scientific and technical challenges with a customer’s business needs to define a tailored solution and the specific benefits of adopting Benchling across the organization. Often the use cases will be new, variable, and complex, and will require creativity in developing new solutions, business cases, and ways of engaging.
SCBVs are also responsible for defining the value journey of our customers in partnership with cross functional stakeholders in sales, solutions consulting, professional services, and customer success. This encompasses both enabling teams on value frameworks as well as developing tools and reusable assets. In addition, SCBVs stay informed about industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Drive growth in our enterprise and strategic customers by leading solution & value assessments during the sales process:
- Coordinate cross functional teams (sales, solutions consulting, product, and professional services) to execute assessments with speed and quality.
- Build a deep understanding of the customer’s business needs through meticulous discovery and creatively adapt assessment framework to meet customer’s decision process
- Create and present executive-level deliverables that capture current state analysis and future state recommendations using leading practices and bridging customer challenges to Benchling capabilities and identified value
- Maintain open, proactive communication and documentation of engagement progress, meetings, deliverables, stakeholders, and key decisions.
- Develop methodologies to quantify strategic, operational, and financial metrics for customers and use these metrics to clearly demonstrate the measurable value Benchling delivers
- Create reusable assets to drive the adoption of Benchling’s value framework in the end-to-end customer journey in partnership with cross functional stakeholders (solutions consulting, professional services, and customer success)
- Provide thought leadership about industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies. Use this knowledge to effectively position Benchling and identify opportunities for differentiation.
- Share insights and feedback from customer interactions to the product and marketing teams to help refine Benchling's offerings and messaging.
QUALIFICATIONS
- It is highly preferred that candidates have 4-7 years experience in a scientific domain - particularly biologics, industrial biotech, or early/late development.
- Ideal candidates will have a Masters or PhD in a scientific field or work experience that gives them exposure to scientific fields.
- Outstanding ability to convey value proposition and insights drawing from prior industry experience and in-depth knowledge of Benchling products and use cases
- Experience creating written deliverables that assess current state, propose a future state solution, outline the value/case for change, and a roadmap to deliver on the case for change.
- Effective at cross-functional leadership. Many subject matter experts contribute to assessments, roadmaps, architectures, and proposals and this person needs to provide leadership that sets everyone up for success.
- Strong executive presence and the ability to quickly establish credibility and trust with senior business leaders as well as internal stakeholders
- Dynamic, empathetic and flexible in communication and work styles depending on context and in multi-cultural teams and engagements
- Willingness to travel to customer sites 25-30% of the time
HOW WE WORK
We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).
#LI-Remote
#BI-Remote
#LI-KW1
Benchling welcomes everyone.
We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Listed by Benchling for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
Solution Consultant - Business Value
Location
Remote, US
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Remote
Department
Sales
Compensation
$119,150 – $150,000 • Offers Equity • Offers Commission • This role is eligible to participate in Benchling's commission plan, it is common for employees in this role to receive total on-target earnings of $148,750 - 187,500.
U.S. Benefits
Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, 401(k)+ employer match, wellness, commuter, and more.
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.
Overview
Application
We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years. But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.
We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.
ROLE OVERVIEW
The Solution Consultant - Business Value (SCBV) ensures that Benchling’s top customers get a solution that meets their needs precisely and delivers value aligned to the customer's business priorities. Their primary focus will be to engage with customers and executives to help articulate the tangible, strategic, and financial impact that Benchling can deliver to their organizations. SCBV deliverables will ultimately drive the customer’s decision on whether or not Benchling is selected as their solution.
SCBVs will have a strong executive presence and must have prior successful executive interaction. They are particularly adept at combining an in-depth understanding of the scientific and technical challenges with a customer’s business needs to define a tailored solution and the specific benefits of adopting Benchling across the organization. Often the use cases will be new, variable, and complex, and will require creativity in developing new solutions, business cases, and ways of engaging.
SCBVs are also responsible for defining the value journey of our customers in partnership with cross functional stakeholders in sales, solutions consulting, professional services, and customer success. This encompasses both enabling teams on value frameworks as well as developing tools and reusable assets. In addition, SCBVs stay informed about industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Drive growth in our enterprise and strategic customers by leading solution & value assessments during the sales process:
Coordinate cross functional teams (sales, solutions consulting, product, and professional services) to execute assessments with speed and quality.
Build a deep understanding of the customer’s business needs through meticulous discovery and creatively adapt assessment framework to meet customer’s decision process
Create and present executive-level deliverables that capture current state analysis and future state recommendations using leading practices and bridging customer challenges to Benchling capabilities and identified value
Maintain open, proactive communication and documentation of engagement progress, meetings, deliverables, stakeholders, and key decisions.
Develop methodologies to quantify strategic, operational, and financial metrics for customers and use these metrics to clearly demonstrate the measurable value Benchling delivers
Create reusable assets to drive the adoption of Benchling’s value framework in the end-to-end customer journey in partnership with cross functional stakeholders (solutions consulting, professional services, and customer success)
Provide thought leadership about industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies. Use this knowledge to effectively position Benchling and identify opportunities for differentiation.
Share insights and feedback from customer interactions to the product and marketing teams to help refine Benchling's offerings and messaging.
QUALIFICATIONS
It is highly preferred that candidates have 4-7 years experience in a scientific domain - particularly biologics, industrial biotech, or early/late development.
Ideal candidates will have a Masters or PhD in a scientific field or work experience that gives them exposure to scientific fields.
Outstanding ability to convey value proposition and insights drawing from prior industry experience and in-depth knowledge of Benchling products and use cases
Experience creating written deliverables that assess current state, propose a future state solution, outline the value/case for change, and a roadmap to deliver on the case for change.
Effective at cross-functional leadership. Many subject matter experts contribute to assessments, roadmaps, architectures, and proposals and this person needs to provide leadership that sets everyone up for success.
Strong executive presence and the ability to quickly establish credibility and trust with senior business leaders as well as internal stakeholders
Dynamic, empathetic and flexible in communication and work styles depending on context and in multi-cultural teams and engagements
Willingness to travel to customer sites 25-30% of the time
HOW WE WORK
We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).
#LI-Remote
#BI-Remote
#LI-KW1
Benchling welcomes everyone.
We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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Listed by Benchling for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years. But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.
We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are seeking a motivated and results-driven Strategic Account Executive to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for driving new business within the Western territory, focusing on building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders across various personas within an account. You will play a crucial role in expanding our chemistry customer base and ensuring successful sales outcomes through effective pipeline generation and accurate sales forecasting.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Pipeline Generation: Creating 80% of your pipeline by identifying new business opportunities and engaging with multiple personas within the prospect/customer base. Utilize various strategies and tools to generate leads and move them through the sales cycle.
- Sales Forecasting: Develop and maintain accurate sales forecasts (+/- 10 of goal), leveraging data to inform decision-making and ensure predictable revenue outcomes with the goal of consistent attainment of revenue targets.
- Solution Selling: Effectively communicate the value of our platform, tailoring presentations and proposals to meet the specific needs of each prospect.
- Negotiation and Closing: Lead negotiations with potential clients, by thoughtfully addressing key stakeholders including multiple personas and CxO in the buyer journey, while navigating organizational complexities, addressing objections and securing new business agreements.
- Account Management: Work across multiple personas within an account to understand their unique needs and align Benchling’s solutions with their business objectives.
- Collaboration: Partner with internal teams (marketing, product, customer success, etc) and Channel to ensure a seamless experience for clients and drive long-term customer satisfaction.
- Continuous Learning: Stay informed about industry trends, competitors, and emerging technologies to maintain a competitive edge in the market.
- Process: Drive the sales process through Pipeline Generation (PG), 3 Why’s, Champion Building, MEDDICC, Command of the Message, etc. Maintain account integrity and opportunity data within company systems; Salesforce.
QUALIFICATIONS
You are drawn to our mission and you want to help Benchling win new business. You are committed to working in a collaborative environment, working together as a team. You have a love for working in a fast-paced environment and taking the initiative to get stuff done and try new things. You are passionate about powering new possibilities in life sciences and chemistry R&D, faster.
- Proven experience as an Account Executive, preferably within a data management, workflow SaaS or technology-driven environment that sells to multiple personas across IT & R&D.
- Demonstrated ability to drive pipeline generation and manage complex sales cycles.
- Strong sales forecasting skills with a track record of meeting or exceeding targets.
- Demonstrated success in selling products or solutions that typically fall outside of pre-established budgets, with a proven ability to build a compelling business case and influence purchasing decisions.
- Experience working with diverse personas within an account (from technical decision makers, business decision makers & CxO execs), with the ability to influence decision-making at all the levels.
- Dynamic communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Self-motivated, with a strong drive to achieve and exceed goals.
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
- Familiarity with MEDDICC sales methodology is a plus but not required.
- Knowledge of the life sciences industry, chemistry including: R&D, and/or IT functions is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree - life sciences or chemistry major is preferred.
#LI-Remote #BI-Remote #LI-KW1
Benchling welcomes everyone.
We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Listed by Benchling for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
Strategic Account Executive
Location
San Diego, CA
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Remote
Department
Sales
Compensation
$100K – $155K • Offers Equity • Offers Commission • This role is eligible to participate in Benchling's commission plan, it is common for employees in this role to receive total on-target earnings of $200,000 to $310,000.
U.S. Benefits
Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, 401(k)+ employer match, wellness, commuter, and more.
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.
Overview
Application
We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years. But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.
We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are seeking a motivated and results-driven Strategic Account Executive to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for driving new business within the Western territory, focusing on building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders across various personas within an account. You will play a crucial role in expanding our chemistry customer base and ensuring successful sales outcomes through effective pipeline generation and accurate sales forecasting.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Pipeline Generation: Creating 80% of your pipeline by identifying new business opportunities and engaging with multiple personas within the prospect/customer base. Utilize various strategies and tools to generate leads and move them through the sales cycle.
Sales Forecasting: Develop and maintain accurate sales forecasts (+/- 10 of goal), leveraging data to inform decision-making and ensure predictable revenue outcomes with the goal of consistent attainment of revenue targets.
Solution Selling: Effectively communicate the value of our platform, tailoring presentations and proposals to meet the specific needs of each prospect.
Negotiation and Closing: Lead negotiations with potential clients, by thoughtfully addressing key stakeholders including multiple personas and CxO in the buyer journey, while navigating organizational complexities, addressing objections and securing new business agreements.
Account Management: Work across multiple personas within an account to understand their unique needs and align Benchling’s solutions with their business objectives.
Collaboration: Partner with internal teams (marketing, product, customer success, etc) and Channel to ensure a seamless experience for clients and drive long-term customer satisfaction.
Continuous Learning: Stay informed about industry trends, competitors, and emerging technologies to maintain a competitive edge in the market.
Process: Drive the sales process through Pipeline Generation (PG), 3 Why’s, Champion Building, MEDDICC, Command of the Message, etc. Maintain account integrity and opportunity data within company systems; Salesforce.
QUALIFICATIONS
You are drawn to our mission and you want to help Benchling win new business. You are committed to working in a collaborative environment, working together as a team. You have a love for working in a fast-paced environment and taking the initiative to get stuff done and try new things. You are passionate about powering new possibilities in life sciences and chemistry R&D, faster.
Proven experience as an Account Executive, preferably within a data management, workflow SaaS or technology-driven environment that sells to multiple personas across IT & R&D.
Demonstrated ability to drive pipeline generation and manage complex sales cycles.
Strong sales forecasting skills with a track record of meeting or exceeding targets.
Demonstrated success in selling products or solutions that typically fall outside of pre-established budgets, with a proven ability to build a compelling business case and influence purchasing decisions.
Experience working with diverse personas within an account (from technical decision makers, business decision makers & CxO execs), with the ability to influence decision-making at all the levels.
Dynamic communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
Self-motivated, with a strong drive to achieve and exceed goals.
Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
Familiarity with MEDDICC sales methodology is a plus but not required.
Knowledge of the life sciences industry, chemistry including: R&D, and/or IT functions is preferred.
Bachelor’s degree - life sciences or chemistry major is preferred.
#LI-Remote #BI-Remote #LI-KW1
Benchling welcomes everyone.
We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years. But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.
We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are seeking a motivated and results-driven Enterprise Account Executive to join our Enterprise team. In this role, you will be responsible for driving new and/or renewal business into different lines of the business within your designated 1-3 of the Top 50 global pharmaceutical accounts. You will focus on building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders across various personas within an account (IT, Science/R&D, Data Science). You will play a crucial role in expanding our customer base and ensuring successful sales outcomes through effective pipeline generation, account management and accurate sales forecasting.
This is a remote position; however, candidates must currently reside in or near the city you are applying to.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Pipeline Generation: Creating 80% of your pipeline by identifying new business opportunities and engaging with multiple personas within the prospect/customer base in partnership with your SDR. Utilize various strategies and tools to generate leads and move them through the sales cycle.
- Sales Forecasting: Develop and maintain accurate sales forecasts (+/- 10 of goal),, leveraging data to inform decision-making and ensure predictable revenue outcomes with the goal of consistent attainment of revenue targets.
- Solution Selling: Effectively communicate the value of our platform, tailoring presentations and proposals to meet the specific needs of each prospect.
- Negotiation and Closing: Lead negotiations with potential clients, by thoughtfully addressing key stakeholders including multiple personas and CxO in the buyer journey, while navigating organizational complexities, addressing objections and securing new business agreements.
- Account Management: Work across multiple personas within an account to understand their unique needs and align Benchling’s solutions with their business objectives.
- Collaboration: Partner with internal teams (marketing, product, customer success, etc) and external teams (GSIs, AWS, etc) to ensure a seamless experience for clients and drive long-term customer satisfaction.
- Continuous Learning: Stay informed about industry trends, competitors, and emerging technologies to maintain a competitive edge in the market. You are a curious learner who is striving to elevate their craft to the next level.
- Process: Drive the sales process through Pipeline Generation (PG), Leading Indicators to drive repeatable success, 3 Why’s/MEDDICC & ability to build champions across the user community, middle management & ‘C’ Suite. Maintain account integrity and opportunity data within company systems; Salesforce.
QUALIFICATIONS
You are drawn to our mission and you want to help Benchling win new business across your respective accounts. You are committed to working in a collaborative environment, working together as a team. You have a love for working in a fast-paced startup/pre IPO environment and taking the initiative to get stuff done and try new things. You are passionate about powering new possibilities in biotech faster.
- Proven experience as a global enterprise/major accounts seller, preferably within a data management, workflow SaaS or technology-driven environment that sells to multiple personas across IT & various Line of business.
- Demonstrated ability to drive pipeline generation and manage complex sales cycles of 7+ figure deals.
- Strong sales forecasting skills with a track record of meeting or exceeding targets.
- Demonstrated success in selling products or solutions that typically fall outside of pre-established budgets, with a proven ability to build a compelling business case and influence purchasing decisions.
- Experience working with diverse personas within an account (from technical decision makers, business decision makers & CxO execs), with the ability to influence decision-making at all the levels.
- Dynamic communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Self-motivated, with a strong drive to achieve and exceed goals.
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
- Ability to leverage the MEDDICC sales methodology is highly recommended
- Knowledge of the life sciences industry, including: R&D, and/or IT functions is preferred but not required.
#LI-Remote #BI-Remote #LI-SF1
Benchling welcomes everyone.
We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Listed by Benchling for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years. But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.
We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are seeking a motivated and results-driven Enterprise Account Executive to join our Enterprise team. In this role, you will be responsible for driving new and/or renewal business into different lines of the business within your designated 1-3 of the Top 50 global pharmaceutical accounts. You will focus on building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders across various personas within an account (IT, Science/R&D, Data Science). You will play a crucial role in expanding our customer base and ensuring successful sales outcomes through effective pipeline generation, account management and accurate sales forecasting.
This is a remote position; however, candidates must currently reside in or near the city you are applying to.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Pipeline Generation: Creating 80% of your pipeline by identifying new business opportunities and engaging with multiple personas within the prospect/customer base in partnership with your SDR. Utilize various strategies and tools to generate leads and move them through the sales cycle.
Sales Forecasting: Develop and maintain accurate sales forecasts (+/- 10 of goal),, leveraging data to inform decision-making and ensure predictable revenue outcomes with the goal of consistent attainment of revenue targets.
Solution Selling: Effectively communicate the value of our platform, tailoring presentations and proposals to meet the specific needs of each prospect.
Negotiation and Closing: Lead negotiations with potential clients, by thoughtfully addressing key stakeholders including multiple personas and CxO in the buyer journey, while navigating organizational complexities, addressing objections and securing new business agreements.
Account Management: Work across multiple personas within an account to understand their unique needs and align Benchling’s solutions with their business objectives.
Collaboration: Partner with internal teams (marketing, product, customer success, etc) and external teams (GSIs, AWS, etc) to ensure a seamless experience for clients and drive long-term customer satisfaction.
Continuous Learning: Stay informed about industry trends, competitors, and emerging technologies to maintain a competitive edge in the market. You are a curious learner who is striving to elevate their craft to the next level.
Process: Drive the sales process through Pipeline Generation (PG), Leading Indicators to drive repeatable success, 3 Why’s/MEDDICC & ability to build champions across the user community, middle management & ‘C’ Suite. Maintain account integrity and opportunity data within company systems; Salesforce.
QUALIFICATIONS
You are drawn to our mission and you want to help Benchling win new business across your respective accounts. You are committed to working in a collaborative environment, working together as a team. You have a love for working in a fast-paced startup/pre IPO environment and taking the initiative to get stuff done and try new things. You are passionate about powering new possibilities in biotech faster.
Proven experience as a global enterprise/major accounts seller, preferably within a data management, workflow SaaS or technology-driven environment that sells to multiple personas across IT & various Line of business.
Demonstrated ability to drive pipeline generation and manage complex sales cycles of 7+ figure deals.
Strong sales forecasting skills with a track record of meeting or exceeding targets.
Demonstrated success in selling products or solutions that typically fall outside of pre-established budgets, with a proven ability to build a compelling business case and influence purchasing decisions.
Experience working with diverse personas within an account (from technical decision makers, business decision makers & CxO execs), with the ability to influence decision-making at all the levels.
Dynamic communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
Self-motivated, with a strong drive to achieve and exceed goals.
Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
Ability to leverage the MEDDICC sales methodology is highly recommended
Knowledge of the life sciences industry, including: R&D, and/or IT functions is preferred but not required.
#LI-Remote #BI-Remote #LI-SF1
Benchling welcomes everyone.
We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Listed by Benchling for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years. But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.
We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.
ROLE OVERVIEW
Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it, from the medicines we take, to the crops we grow, the materials we wear, and the household goods that we rely on every day. But moving at the new speed of science requires better technology. Benchling's mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world's most innovative biotech companies use Benchling's R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and accelerate time to milestone and market. Come help us bring modern software to modern science.
Benchling is building Intelligence Engineering & Enablement, a small autonomous team within our Security & IT organization. We own three things: internal AI tooling, adoption, and AI-assisted workflows across the company; cross-functional and company-wide agentic AI applications that span departmental boundaries; and the source-of-truth datasets, pipelines, and analytics that all of the above depend on, in partnership with our Data, Analytics & Systems team. We span the bridge between departmental AI experimentation and enterprise-grade agentic systems in production — rapidly prototyping new solutions, and graduating proven prototypes into hardened, well-governed systems with full SDLC rigor. This is an AI systems engineering role — we want someone who builds reliable production systems around modern foundation models, not someone who trains models from scratch. Model research or ML engineering experience is welcome but not the bar.
We're built to be enablers. We set the patterns, standards, and shared infrastructure that let departmental teams and AI power users across the company build their own solutions, and we take on the agentic systems that no single team owns. It's early days for enterprise agentic AI at Benchling, and we'll be moving fast — iterating on prototypes, learning from internal customers, and changing direction as the field matures.
As the founding engineer for this team, you'll own the technical direction, architecture, and delivery of our agentic AI portfolio. You'll be a player-coach — hands-on most of the time, leading by doing — and partner closely with our AI Product Manager on prioritization and our Data, Analytics & Systems team peers on the data foundations that agentic systems depend on. This is a senior individual contributor role on a flat team: you'll lead the engineering team in ideation, planning, and delivery and you'll drive technical hiring, while people management responsibilities sit with the hiring manager.
Check out our engineering blog for examples of past work across Benchling.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Shape technical direction and architecture: Define the foundational architecture for enterprise agentic AI at Benchling — orchestration, agent frameworks, tool integrations (including MCP), memory and state management, evaluation, and observability. Make clear build vs. buy decisions across the stack with documented rationale.
- Build and ship the early portfolio yourself: Write production code at least half your time, particularly during the team's first year. Stand up the CI/CD, testing, evaluation, and deployment infrastructure for agentic systems — leveraging existing patterns from Benchling's Build organization wherever possible. Graduate prototypes from the AI Product Manager's discovery cycles into hardened, production-grade systems and own production support under a "you build it, you run it" model.
- Design for enterprise from day one: Build for multi-tenant isolation, secrets management, audit logging, payload encryption, role-based access controls, and human-in-the-loop controls calibrated to risk. Partner with Security Engineering on threat modeling for agentic architectures — prompt injection, tool misuse, data exfiltration vectors.
- Enable builders across the company: Coach power users and departmental teams on production patterns, develop the criteria that decide which prototypes graduate into enterprise-grade systems, and build the internal-facing developer experience — templates, SDKs, sandboxes — that lets builders outside this team ship safely.
- Partner across functions: Work closely with our Data, Analytics & Systems team peers on the source-of-truth datasets and pipelines that agentic systems depend on. Engage with department leaders on the workflows we're transforming, and with Benchling's platform and infrastructure teams to leverage existing capabilities rather than build parallel systems.
- Elevate engineering standards: Set the bar for code quality, testing and evaluation, documentation, and on-call practices. Drive technical hiring through interview loop design, bar-raising in interviews, and representing the team to senior candidates. Mentor engineers on the team and other AI builders across the company.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems, with strong systems design fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience building production systems that integrate with LLMs and/or agentic patterns: orchestration, tool use, memory and state management, evaluation, and observability.
- Demonstrated understanding of how to optimize workloads across deterministic and non-deterministic capabilities, striking the right architectural balance for the needs of the specific solution being implemented.
- Production experience with at least two of: Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go; comfort with working across the stack.
- Hands-on expertise with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic), agentic frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI), RAG over business content (Confluence, contracts, policies), vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone), workflow automation (n8n, Langflow), and LLM observability and evaluation tooling (LangSmith, Arize).
- Track record of going from zero to one: a platform, function, or product area you built up from scratch and scaled.
- Experience operating in regulated or security-sensitive environments. Solid grasp of enterprise security fundamentals — encryption, access controls, audit logging, secrets management.
- Comfortable exercising technical leadership independent of positional authority. You set direction, raise the bar in design reviews, and grow other engineers through influence.
- Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real-world impact of your work.
- Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of platforms.
- Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences. You can translate department workflows into engineering plans, and engineering tradeoffs into business language.
- Interest in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required).
NICE TO HAVE
- Background in enterprise SaaS, life sciences, or biotech.
- Familiarity with LLM orchestration patterns and frameworks (LangGraph, MCP, agent SDKs from major model providers).
- Experience with async orchestration (Temporal, Prefect, Airflow) applied to long-running or agentic workflows.
- Familiarity with SOC 2, HIPAA, or GxP compliance as they apply to AI systems.
- Experience building internal developer platforms or internal tools at scale.
- Direct experience coaching or enabling non-engineers (analysts, ops staff, business power users) to build with AI tooling.
- While this role is open to remote candidates, we have a strong preference for candidates based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco, CA. For candidates open to relocation, we offer relocation assistance.
#LI-Remote
#BI-Remote
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Benchling welcomes everyone.
We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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