--- title: 'Executive Assistant to Sales Leadership (Contract) at Benchling' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/executive-assistant-to-sales-leadership-contract-benchling-san-francisco-vmbtwt77k57f' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-17' --- # Executive Assistant to Sales Leadership (Contract) at Benchling - **Company:** Benchling - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/benchling/8dc59fa4-27f1-48fd-a379-d3855a3b4a87 ## Job description We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era. When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years. But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done. Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma. We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today. ## ROLE OVERVIEW This is a 6 month contract in-office role with a required hybrid schedule — a minimum of three days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday) at our San Francisco HQ. The Benchling Executive Admins are strategic partners who deliver best-in-class support to our executives and their functions. We are a team built on trust, transparency, and mutual accountability — challenging and supporting each other to continually raise the bar. We are inclusive and welcoming with everyone at Benchling, which shows up in our processes, events, and everyday work. We set the tone for the company culture, making ourselves and our executives accessible and approachable to all. At our core, we are hardworking, collaborative individuals who create a safe environment to share ideas, have a voice, make mistakes, and learn from our collective experiences. Benchling is looking for a highly experienced, energetic, and self-motivated Executive Assistant to provide strategic and operational support to senior sales leaders. You'll support Benchling's Head of Go-to-Market and partner closely with our VPs of Sales AMER and EMEA, working across a fast-paced, metrics-driven revenue organization where deals move quickly and schedules change constantly. In this role, you'll handle a wide range of complex and highly confidential responsibilities that go far beyond traditional admin work — operating as a key partner in driving leadership efficiency, clarity, and focus. You'll be the point of delegation for high-priority tasks, from managing executive time to crafting sensitive communications, preparing presentations, compiling reports, and ensuring seamless execution of critical initiatives. ## RESPONSIBILITIES - Perform extensive calendar management and prioritization across multiple time zones for senior executives. - Prepare domestic and international travel arrangements, itineraries, and timely expense filings. - Manage all forms of daily correspondence, ensuring timely, professional, and accurate responses with a high degree of confidentiality. - Collaborate on and manage key projects and priorities across multiple functions. - Lead planning and coordination for presentations, meetings, and dissemination of strategic information. - Plan and execute high-profile events, off-sites, and special functions with precision and creativity. - Lead full-cycle planning and own end-to-end logistics for Sales events including venue contracting, travel, budget, and workback planning. Events include Quarterly Business Reviews (“QBRs”) across AMER & EMEA, CKO/SKO, H2KO, and other ad-hoc offsites. - Manage the executive customer-meeting program during Benchling's annual customer conference, coordinating private meeting rooms, scheduling, and onsite flow between Sales/CX teams and customers. - Administer the recognition program (High5s) for the Sales organization — nominations, approvals, budget tracking. - Support weekly pipeline/forecast call logistics and follow-ups for regional sales standups. - Coordinate interview scheduling for Sales hiring across multiple time zones (AMER/EMEA). - Manage cross-region calendar coordination between AMER (Pacific & East Coasts) and EMEA (UK-time) sales leadership. - Attend key meetings, help develop and communicate agendas, take notes, and track action items through to completion. - Partner closely with Workplace, Events, and IT teams to provide on-the-ground logistics support. - Build strong relationships across the organization, establishing yourself as a trusted, proactive connector. - Serve as a senior member of the EA team, providing strategic thought partnership and mentorship to peers. - Support ad-hoc projects and initiatives as needed. ## QUALIFICATIONS - 7+ years of experience supporting VP or C-level leaders, ideally in enterprise SaaS sales or tech organizations. - Proven success managing multiple executives with competing, high-stakes priorities. - Experience managing multi-day, 50–100+ person corporate events (kickoffs, regional offsites) including budget ownership and vendor/contract coordination. - Comfort supporting a fast-moving, metrics-driven sales organization with frequent last-minute schedule changes. - Exceptional organizational skills and a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset. - Polished communicator with high emotional intelligence and impeccable discretion. - Adept with productivity and collaboration tools including Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, and Navan. Familiarity with Salesforce (viewer-level), procurement/expense tools (ZIP or equivalent), and event/travel logistics platforms is a plus. - Thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment while maintaining a calm, steady presence. - Passionate about biotech, innovation, and working with purpose-driven teams. ## HOW WE WORK We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday). #LI-Hybrid #BI-Hybrid Benchling welcomes everyone. We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. ## About Benchling ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Benchling provides a cloud-based platform for biotechnology research and development, uniting data, automation, and AI to accelerate scientific discovery. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series F) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2012 - **Founders**: Sajith Wickramasekara, Ashu Singhal ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Life Sciences Software, Biotechnology R&D, Scientific Cloud Computing - **Target customers**: B2B; biopharma companies (including more than half of the world's top 50), academic labs, agritech, and industrial biotech organizations. - **Mission or purpose statement**: "To unlock the power of biotechnology" by helping scientists unite data, automation, and AI to bring new products and discoveries to life faster. ## Products & Services - **Benchling Platform (R&D Cloud)**: A unified, cloud-based platform for biotech R&D. It includes an electronic lab notebook (ELN), laboratory information management system (LIMS), and scientific data management. It allows teams to plan, record, and share experiments, automate workflows, and use AI tools. - **Benchling AI**: An integrated AI layer that includes "The AI Scientist," which connects predictive models, structured data, and wet lab execution into a single loop. It designs experiments, routes lab automation, captures results, and recommends next steps. - **Developer Platform**: An open, flexible platform with APIs, app integrations, and a custom interface designer, allowing organizations to build custom apps and connect data from instruments and other software. - **Services & Support**: Implementation, advisory, and support services from a team of experts. Also offers "Benchling Learning Labs" for team training and certification. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last reported valuation was $6.1 billion in 2021 after a Series F round). - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$412M** across 8 rounds. Annual revenue is estimated at **$50M** (per LinkedIn). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Menlo Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Accel, Y Combinator, and others. Customers include Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma companies. - **Growth Signals**: Over 200,000 scientists use the platform; trusted by 1,300+ organizations; 642 employees with 2.2% YoY headcount growth; active job postings (49 open roles); LinkedIn follower growth of 28.4% year-over-year. ## Competitive Advantages - **Purpose-built for biology**: Unlike generic software, Benchling is built specifically for complex life sciences R&D, modeling data for biomolecules, cell lines, and more. - **AI-native platform**: AI is embedded at every step, with "The AI Scientist" closing the loop between experiment design, execution, and data capture. - **Network effects**: Over 200,000 scientists and 1,300+ organizations use the platform, creating a strong ecosystem and data network effect. - **Deep industry penetration**: Trusted by more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma companies, providing a strong moat against competitors. - **Open and flexible**: Offers APIs, integrations, and a custom interface designer, allowing it to adapt to diverse scientific workflows. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-first R&D**: Deeply integrating AI agents and models into the scientific workflow to compress decades of R&D into years. - **Platform expansion**: Continuing to build out the "AI Scientist" capability and expanding the developer platform for custom applications. - **Customer growth**: Deepening relationships with existing enterprise customers (top 50 biopharma) while expanding into adjacent fields like agritech and industrial biotech. - **International presence**: Operating in 15 countries, including Switzerland, UK, France, Denmark, and Canada, with continued global expansion. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven work**: Employees directly contribute to accelerating breakthroughs in medicine, agriculture, and materials science. - **Culture of curiosity**: The company emphasizes a growth mindset, continuous learning, and treating mistakes as opportunities to reflect and grow. - **Strong benefits**: Includes dedicated mental health benefits (therapy sessions), monthly wellness stipend, winter holiday shutdown, and active employee resource groups (ERGs) with executive sponsorship. - **Community and connection**: Regular social hours, themed all-hands meetings, cross-functional events, and a strong emphasis on building community both in-person and virtually. - **Hybrid/Office policy**: Has offices in multiple locations (San Francisco, and international offices in Switzerland, UK, France, Denmark, Canada) with in-person social hours and team events. - **Engineering culture**: Nearly half the team comes from an R&D background, blending scientific and technological expertise. Open roles include Software Engineer (Agents, Developer Platform), Engineering Leader (Molecular Biology, Infrastructure), and more. ## Sources 1. [benchling.com](https://www.benchling.com/) 2. [benchling.com/about-us](https://www.benchling.com/about-us) 3. [benchling.com/careers](https://www.benchling.com/careers) 4. [benchling.com/life-at-benchling](https://www.benchling.com/life-at-benchling) 5. 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