# Product Manager, Developer Platform at Benchling

- Company: Benchling
- What the company does: Backed by Y Combinator, a16z and ICONIQ.
- Company website: http://benchling.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $163K to $222K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/benchling/61b20c5a-5c3d-4388-a19d-13a89886e73f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/benchling-product-manager-developer-platform/

## About the role

We're looking for a product manager who thinks like a developer advocate and acts like a platform strategist. This role sits at the intersection of systems integration and developer experience and as AI transforms how scientists work, the stakes have never been higher. The world's most innovative life sciences teams are already building agentic R&D workflows on top of Benchling, and they need a platform that can keep up.

## What they're looking for

- 3-5 years of product management experience, with hands-on ownership of API, SDK, or developer platform products
- Technical fluency: you can read code, review API specs, and have credible conversations with engineers. You don't need to ship production code, but you need to deeply understand the systems you're building
- Developer empathy at your core: you obsess over the developer experience and are constantly thinking about how AI-era tooling (MCPs, LLM-friendly APIs, agentic workflows) can supercharge what developers can do with Benchling
- Familiarity with the modern developer stack — APIs, SDKs, documentation, and developer onboarding, you understand the tradeoffs and know what good looks like
- Strong communicator: you write crisp requirements and can present clearly to engineers, stakeholders, and customers alike

Tags: Product & Design