Product Manager, Developer Platform

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end roadmap for Benchling's developer-facing products: REST APIs, MCPs, SDKs, API playground, code examples, and code recipes.
• Define what those primitives are, get them built, and make sure developers can actually use them.
• Work cross-functionally with Solutions Engineering, Partnerships, and Customer Success to build the platform foundation that makes extensibility possible for partners like Quilt, Calira, Code Ocean, and Seqera.
• Developers who try to build on Benchling today hit walls fast — in our docs, our APIs, and our support. Own the developer experience end-to-end and close the gap between what developers expect and what we deliver.
• Establish feedback loops through interviews, support signals, and usage data and make sure those learnings shape roadmap decisions across the Build org.

Qualifications

• 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.

Nice To Have

• Familiarity with the life sciences or enterprise SaaS domain.
• Experience building developer communities, running beta programs, or managing developer relations programs.
• Prior experience at a company with a platform business model or marketplace.