Benchling
Product Manager, Platform
$163K–$307K
San Francisco, CA · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
About the job
Own product direction and delivery for Benchling’s Schemas platform, the data-modeling foundation used by customers and other product systems.
What you'll do
- Set Schemas product direction and deliver capabilities while balancing prototyping with platform stability.
- Investigate customer needs and usage, develop personas and jobs-to-be-done context, and partner with Engineering and Design to ship improvements.
- Promote structured data as the foundation for AI and coordinate roadmap alignment with customer-facing teams and other product managers.
What they ask for
- Designed, owned, or significantly evolved a data-modeling, schema, or configuration system used by external developers or technical admins.
- Built personas and jobs-to-be-done frameworks from scratch.
- Demonstrated ability to balance long-term product vision with incremental delivery.
- Strong communication across technical and executive audiences.
Nice to have
- B2B SaaS or developer-platform background.
- Curiosity about the science behind the data.
Pay
$163K – $307K (base salary)
Tools
Schemas
AI focus
Champion structured, well-modeled data as the foundation for AI features and anticipate the needs of schema consumers, including AI agents.
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