ROLE OVERVIEW
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 design Benchling’s Process Development product, enabling scientists to scale recipe design, experiment planning, batch execution, and analysis. You will own the end-to-end user experience for our Bioprocess product, working cross-functionally with scientists, engineers, designers, and GTM teams to bring new capabilities to life. 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.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work with Product Management and Engineering teams to define product strategy, scope, and prioritization in a startup-like environment
- Own the design for high-impact initiatives from research, concepts, wireframing, mockups, through to implementation
- Design and prototype multiple ideas quickly to validate product directions
- Conduct user research / interviews to inform product direction, interactive improvements to increase usability
- Use and contribute to evolving Design systems by collaborating with other Designers to identify gaps, and design components that have high utility across the entire product
- Clearly communicate design rationale to cross-functional teams, and Product and Design leadership
- Effectively communicate in a hybrid environment that balances in-person collaboration and remote work
QUALIFICATIONS
- 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 process, 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.
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).
SALARY RANGE
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. For this role the base salary range is $170,000 to $230,000.
Total Compensation includes the following:
- Competitive total rewards package
- Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
- Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
- Four months of fully paid parental leave
- 401(k) + Employer Match
- Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
- Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
- Monthly Wellness stipend
- Learning and development stipend
- Generous and flexible vacation
- Company-wide Winter holiday shutdown
- Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries
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