Benchling

Biotech

HeadofScientificDevelopmentSolutionsEngineering

$232–386k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
The Brief

“Head of Scientific Development Solutions Engineering at Benchling. Skills: Engineering Management, Roadmap Execution, Cloud-based Web Applications. Manage a group of 2–3 engineering scrum. Translate strategy into execution”

What You'll Achieve.

Compress decades of R&D work into years; Build clean, structured scientific data and AI into how science gets done; Deliver products and solutions to biologists; Achieve clear metrics and targets; Meet customer needs

Industry & Context.

Biotech
Problems you'll solve

Analyze complex time-series and biological and IT-driven workflows

Eligibility Requirements

On-site 3 days per week

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

10–15 years overall experience in software engineering and engineering management roles, 5+ years overall experience in SaaS or the broader high-tech commercial software sector, 5+ years of engineering management experience, 3+ years of indirectly managing other teams through subordinate engineering managers, Experience driving complex multi-quarter roadmaps to completion, Experience building and deploying cloud-based web applications, Familiarity with software engineering management productivity tools, Familiarity with observability tools for logging, metrics, and alerting

Nice to Have

Prior experience with biotech, pharmaceutical, or other life sciences business sectors or education

What You'll Do.

Manage a group of 2–3 engineering scrum

Translate strategy into execution

Develop and execute quarterly plans

Define and execute software engineering roadmap

and onboard engineers

Act as a bar-raiser for talent

Build partnership with stakeholders

Contribute to engineering-wide organizational improvements

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work closely with senior engineering leadership; Work closely with group-level product management counterpart; Work closely with engineering leaders, PMs, and designers; Build partnership with stakeholders across engineering organization and other functions

Process & Methodology

Develop and execute quarterly plans with clear metrics and targets, Define and execute on a software engineering roadmap, Drive complex multi-quarter roadmaps to completion

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