Benchling

Implementation Manager

Benchling$100K — $140K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Degree in a relevant field such as Molecular Biology or Biotechnology, with advanced degrees preferred.
  • Minimum 2 years of experience in a lab or research setting to ensure familiarity with scientific concepts.
  • Strong communication skills to effectively engage with diverse stakeholders, including scientists and executives.
  • Self-motivated and adaptable to thrive in a dynamic startup environment.
  • Demonstrated curiosity and creativity, eager to collaborate with teammates and customers.
  • Willingness to travel up to 25% for customer and project requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Manage new customer rollouts and expansion projects for existing clients.
  • Own the implementation process from kickoff through to go-live, ensuring project success.
  • Develop and execute detailed project plans to meet deliverable timelines and quality standards.
  • Understand and assess customer scientific workflows to optimize Benchling's application.
  • Facilitate workshops, perform data modeling, and lead user training and onboarding.
  • Act as a trusted advisor, guiding customers to apply Benchling best practices effectively.
  • Document customer challenges and advocate for their needs to influence product development.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work arrangement, with three in-office days per week.
  • Opportunities for professional development and training programs.
Full Job Description
ROLE OVERVIEW

Benchling is building a world-class Professional Services team to drive implementations for our rapidly expanding customer base. Implementation Managers work with our customers, from small Biotech startups to the largest BioPharmas in the world to develop a deep understanding of their R&D Processes, and roll out solutions that transform how their research teams work together.

To be successful in this role, you will leverage your scientific background, project management skills, and product expertise to drive successful implementations of the Benchling platform. You will work hand in hand with the research scientists at our customers, and teams throughout Benchling to implement our solutions, and ensure our customers are successful. Implementation Managers lead all aspects of customer rollouts from requirements analysis and solution design, to configurations, testing, training, and onboarding users onto the system.
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Manage initial rollouts for new Benchling customers as well as expansion projects with new teams or for new processes at existing customers.
  • Own implementation success from project kickoff to go-live, leveraging strong project management skills, scientific expertise, and deep product knowledge.
  • Build and execute detailed project plans, own project activities, work with other team members to execute on project deliverables to ensure on time, on budget, high quality deployments.
  • Understand customers' scientific workflows and determine how Benchling can best be leveraged to meet their key business needs.
  • Lead requirements and design workshops, perform data modeling & application configuration, develop test plans and guide UAT execution, train and onboard users.
  • Act as a trusted advisor for customers, guiding them through the implementation ensuring they leverage and apply Benchling Best Practices.
  • Understand and document customer pain points, advocate for them internally to influence product changes.
  • Develop and optimize enterprise training programs including written and video collateral.
  • Identify and work with sales on opportunities for account expansion post go-live.
QUALIFICATIONS

Requirements
  • Degree in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Immunology, Bioinformatics, Biological Engineering or a related field. Advanced degrees preferred.
  • At least 2 years of experience in a lab or research setting. You must be able to empathize with scientists and quickly understand complicated scientific concepts.
  • Strong communication skills. You must be able to quickly and effectively connect with a range of stakeholders, including scientists, IT project leads, and executives.
  • Self-starter with the ability to be successful in a startup environment.
  • Curious, creative, and tenacious. You should be excited to collaborate with customers and other Benchling teammates as a thought partner.
  • Ability to travel up to 25% based on customer and project needs.

Bonus if you have:
  • Experience using Benchling, especially if you've been a Benchling administrator.
  • Software Implementation experience, preferably with a SaaS software company.
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).

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About Benchling

Benchling is a cloud-based informatics platform that accelerates life sciences R&D by streamlining workflows and centralizing data. The platform offers a suite of applications for molecular biology, including DNA design, antibody design, CRISPR analysis, and protein expression. Benchling's customers include pharmaceutical companies, biotechs, and academic institutions. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Benchling
Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
2012

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