Product Manager, App Foundations

App Foundations owns the document and spreadsheet-like table surfaces where scientific data is created, structured, and reused in Benchling. This core foundation enables our Electronic Lab Notebook, execution workflows, and downstream automation; they are how scientific work enters and flows through the platform. We're looking for a seasoned Product Manager to steward these foundational capabilities, transforming them from tightly coupled implementations to API-driven building blocks with clear contracts. You'll focus on improving engineering confidence in making changes while optimizing for multiplier effects across teams. Strong business acumen is critical: you'll need to connect foundational investments to company priorities, demonstrating how better building blocks accelerate product development and unlock new capabilities. The immediate focus of this role is strengthening the foundation to support strategic investments in new scientific modalities, automation, and AI– not rapid surface expansion. You'll own tables as a system, including formulas, references, and validation considerations, and unstructured content that supports experiment execution and record-keeping across Benchling. By making these surfaces more structured, automatable, and safer to extend, you'll increase velocity for Benchling product teams building differentiated workflows and help scientists bring new products to market faster. This role is for someone who enjoys building systems, working closely with scientists and engineers, and making hard prioritization calls. Success comes from understanding both internal and external needs, making difficult tradeoff decisions, and investing in the highest-leverage improvements that make the platform easier and safer to evolve.