Product Manager, Study Lifecycle
Boston · 5-7 years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 15, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5-7 years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Boston
About the role
- Benchling is seeking a Product Manager for the Study Lifecycle team to work on products such as Studies, Sample Testing, and Process Development.
- The role involves working at the intersection of experimental planning, execution data, and analysis to help biopharma companies develop therapies faster.
Responsibilities
- Manage Studies, Sample Testing, Process Development, and how experiment run data connects to analysis.
- Decide what gets built, why, and in what order, remaining accountable for the roadmap and outcomes.
- Spend time with customers and GTM teams to understand how scientists work and translate requests into product direction.
- Work alongside design, engineering, GTM, and customers to build and ship products.
- Guide product decisions with design and engineering, validate ideas early with customers, and partner with GTM to bring products to market.
- Use tools such as SQL, AI, and developer environments to answer questions, build prototypes, and summarize customer discovery notes.
Requirements
- 5-7+ years of product management or equivalent experience
- A diverse career history working across 2-3+ meaningfully different domains or product types
- Product taste with a track record of building and improving products and translating user requirements into features
- Architectural fluency with experience guiding architectural decisions and reasoning about data models, state machines, or schema design
- Technical tool competency including writing SQL queries, using design tools for prototypes, or using tools like Cursor
- Clear communication skills with the ability to lead engaging conversations and adapt communication styles
- Track record of outcomes with evidence of impact from previous roles
- Intellectual range and genuine curiosity about learning and solving problems
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in regulated or compliance-heavy industries
- Configuration-heavy, platform-style products
- B2B SaaS in the growth/scaling stage
- Prior life as an engineer, data scientist, or solutions consultant
Workplace
- Flexible hybrid work arrangement prioritizing in-office collaboration
- Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
Skills
- SQL
- Cursor
- APIs