Product Manager, Platform

The role

The Product Manager for Schemas owns the primitives like schema types and data versioning that other teams build on. You will set product direction for the configuration layer to provide a foundation for AI features.

What you will do

• Set product direction for Schemas and ship toward it incrementally.
• Track how customers use Schemas to build personas and job-to-be-done context.
• Bring customer why back to Engineering and Design to ship new capabilities.
• Champion structured, well-modeled data as the foundation for AI value.
• Partner with Customer Experience, Field, Sales, and Marketing for roadmap signal.
• Partner with other Platform and Apps PMs on sequencing and shared abstractions.

Required qualifications

• Energized by platform work and systems thinking.
• Has designed, owned, or significantly evolved a data-modeling, schema, or configuration system used by external developers or technical admins.
• Becomes the go-to person for customers, field, and engineers.
• Deep, demonstrated discovery practice building personas and JTBD frameworks from scratch.
• Track record balancing long-term vision with incremental shipping.
• Strong communicator across technical and executive audiences.
• Genuine curiosity about the science behind the data.

Nice to have

• B2B SaaS or developer-platform background

Before you apply

• You'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion as part of the interview process.

About the company

Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Over 200,000 scientists around the world use it to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models.