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# Partner Enablement Manager at Benchling

- **Company:** Benchling
- **Location:** Boston, MA
- **Compensation:** $122k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/benchling/2537278d-5417-4af0-a6a8-c0b145e3cc0c/application

**Skills:** eLearning authoring tools (e.g., Articulate Rise 360), Assessment tools (e.g., Skillable, Questionmark), KCS methodology

> Design and own scalable partner enablement frameworks, including onboarding curriculum, certification tracks, and training sessions. Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure partner readiness and drive continuous learning programs for Benchling's implementation partners in the life science sector.

## 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

Over the coming years, biotech will fundamentally rewrite the way we live. Gene editing and cell therapy are dramatically changing how we treat cancer and other major illnesses. Biofuels and biomaterials are transforming the cars we drive, the clothes we wear, and the makeup of everyday objects. Crop science and synthetic biology are producing sustainable and ethical food. Benchling’s mission is to accelerate the research that propels us towards this reality, and magnify its impact, through modern software.

Every day, scientists around the world use Benchling’s applications, platform, & analytics in their efforts to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. For these scientists, Benchling is the central technology they use to conduct their research. Our customers include pharmaceutical giants, leading biotechs, and the world’s most renowned research institutes.

Benchling is looking for a Partner Enablement Program Manager to build and own the enablement programs that prepare our implementation partners to deliver Benchling in pharmaceutical and life science accounts. You will play a key role in defining what partner readiness looks like, designing, creating, and maintaining the curriculum and certification tracks that get partners there, and establishing the feedback loops that keep programs current and effective. You will work closely with others on the enablement team to support product release enablement, and ensure scalable enablement program management across partners and other key personas served by the Enablement team (internal, customers). You will collaborate with other Benchling teams across Customer Experience, Product, and Partners, and directly with partner organizations externally, to close capability gaps systematically and at scale.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Design and own a scalable partner enablement framework: onboarding curriculum, role-based learning tracks, product certification programs, delivery readiness assessments, etc.
- Build tiered partner certification paths that align to Benchling's delivery standards
- Serve as the primary enablement point of contact for Benchling's services partner enablement program
- Facilitate partner enablement activities: live training sessions, onboarding cohorts, certification workshops, etc.
- Define partner readiness criteria and work with PS leadership to gate partner-led delivery against demonstrated competency
- Author and maintain a structured enablement content repository in collaboration with the rest of the Benchling Enablement team
- Work cross-functionally across Benchling teams to develop scalable onboarding, new product release enablement (shared across internal and partner audiences), and continuous learning programs
- Define and track partner enablement KPIs: certification attainment, time-to-readiness, delivery quality scores, and partner-sourced issue rates

## QUALIFICATIONS

- BS or M.Sc. in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, or similar life science field
- Life science background or experience enabling teams serving scientific industries
- 4+ years of experience in enablement, training, or program management with meaningful exposure to external audiences (partners, customers, or channel)
- Demonstrated ability to design and build enablement programs from scratch, not just maintain existing ones
- Experience working with SI, channel, or implementation partners in a SaaS context, strongly preferred
- Experience with eLearning authoring tools (e.g., Articulate Rise 360, or similar) and assessment tools (e.g. Skillable, Questionmark, or similar)
- Comfortable facilitating live training for technical and semi-technical audiences
- Strong content development skills; can author or direct the creation of clear, engaging enablement materials without always having deep domain expertise
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills; experience influencing stakeholders you do not manage
- KCS methodology familiarity or experience embedding knowledge practices into enablement workflows, a plus

## 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. [linkedin.com/company/benchling](https://www.linkedin.com/company/benchling)

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