Head of Enterprise Applications

The posting, as Benchling wrote it

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

Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it, from the medicines we take, to the crops we grow, the materials we wear, and the household goods that we rely on every day. But moving at the new speed of science requires better technology. Benchling's mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world's most innovative biotech companies use Benchling's R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and accelerate time to milestone and market. Come help us bring modern software to modern science.

Enterprise Applications is one of five functions in Benchling's CIO and CISO group. You will own the business application portfolio and the integrations between every platform Benchling runs on: Salesforce (including CPQ/RevCloud), NetSuite, Workday, Certinia, Gainsight, Zendesk, Atlassian, Slack, Workato, and the rest of the SaaS estate. That includes ownership of the full lifecycle of those platforms, from architecture and selection through configuration, integration, vendor management, and process design. Enterprise Apps sets the target-state portfolio and the integration standards the rest of the company builds against.

We're hiring a leader to take that mandate and make it one of the strongest business technology functions in software.

WHY THIS ROLE, AND WHY NOW

The foundation is built. The integration practice is live and shipping. A recent identity re-architecture cut Salesforce access tickets by roughly 65% in three months. The business helps rank a prioritized roadmap, and that roadmap is full of work that moves revenue.

Three things are converging that make this the right moment to step in:

• Benchling is scaling. You'll own a portfoli

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nancial systems, running access reviews and change management to an auditable standard, automating evidence collection, and working directly with internal and external auditors.

• You've taken over programs mid-flight and stabilized them, including telling a senior sponsor that a committed date needs to move.
• Strong vendor management: contract negotiation, renewal strategy, and portfolio rationalization with documented savings.
• Clear written communication with non-technical audiences. You can explain a systems tradeoff to a savvy CFO and a process tradeoff to a sales team in the same week.
• Curiosity about life science. Prior industry knowledge isn't required.

NICE TO HAVE

• NetSuite, Certinia, or Workday ownership.
• Experience with Snowflake, Salesforce Data Cloud, or an analytics platform as part of the application data layer.
• Experience managing a distributed contractor or partner bench alongside full-time staff.

Research consistently shows that strong candidates, especially from underrepresented groups, skip roles when they don't match every line. If most of this describes you, we'd like to hear from you.

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).

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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.