Benchling Product Designer at Benchling focused on building user experiences for biotech scientists, specifically for small molecule solutions. Own strategy, roadmap, and execution while collaborating cross-functionally.
Responsibilities
The Product Design team at Benchling is committed to building user experiences that support the scientists who are solving the world’s most important problems. Our work has a direct impact on making scientific workflows more efficient while improving the quality of that research—ultimately helping to drive the biotech revolution.
We’re looking for an experienced Product Designer to help build Benchling’s small molecule solution, enabling scientists to discover and develop small molecules and hybrid modalities with the same power and collaboration Benchling brings to biologics. You will own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for this critical product area, working cross-functionally with scientists, engineers, designers, and GTM teams to bring new capabilities to life.
This role will also contribute to platform-level initiatives including new homepage and navigation features that tie into the day-to-day work of a chemist.
An ideal person for this team will be able to balance customer needs and priorities with scalable, consistent, delightful user experiences in an agile environment.
Work with Product Management and Engineering teams to define product strategy, scope, and prioritization in a startup-like environment
Work through product problems from definition and opportunity to shipping features to our customers
Design and prototype multiple ideas quickly to validate product directions
Own the design for high-impact initiatives from research through implementation
Qualification
A background with lab work
Required
5+ years of experience* driving the design of software products, ideally SaaS, while maintaining a relentless focus on the user
A strong portfolio of relevant design work that conveys an ability to ship successful products
A track record of working with and simplifying complex product architectures or workflows
Strong communication skills and ability to explain the reasoning behind complex decisions
Experience contributing to a design system for complex software products
Experience working with Product Management, Engineers, and fellow Designers in an agile environment
A background with lab work, scientific research, or healthcare will serve you well in this role—but it is not a requirement.
We've learned that people hesitate to apply without quantifiable years of experience. However, what’s most important to us is the kind of experiences you’ve had and the skills you’ve developed along the way, regardless of how long it took you to get there. Have well over 5 years of experience? That's great! Have fewer than 5 years, but feel you meet the other requirements? That's ok too! Please apply.
