Product Support Leader

Benchling, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Robust healthcare benefits

Parental leave (4 months)

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Benchling, Inc. is seeking a Support Team Leader to guide the regional customer support presence, coordinating with the Global Support Leadership Team and CX Leadership Team.

You will own incident leadership, scale a high-performing team, and advance enterprise-grade practices with thoughtful AI adoption. The ideal candidate will manage daily support operations, recruit and rotate in as escalation responder, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve customer experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a life sciences related field is recommended.
• Coaches with empathy and exercises judgment prioritizing issues by urgency and customer health context.
• Strong communicator with excellent written and verbal skills across departments and remote teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a regional customer support team in collaboration with Global Support Leadership and CX Leadership.
• Own incident management leadership, stepping in as owner during live, customer-impacting incidents.
• Drive scalable, AI-enabled support processes and surface account context automatically.
• Analyze incident and support metrics to inform staffing and process decisions; report trends to CX leadership.
• Collaborate with Build, Product, TAC, Customer Success and Professional Services to keep knowledge current.
• Represent support at customer-facing events as needed.

Skills

People leadership

Incident management

AI adoption

Cross-functional collaboration

Clear communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in life sciences (recommended)

Tools

Salesforce

Zendesk

JIRA

PagerDuty

Job description

• The Support Team Leader will lead our customer support presence in close collaboration with our Global Support Leadership Team and our CX Leadership Team
• This role combines growing a high-performing regional support team, owning incident management leadership, and helping scale a modern, efficient Support organization through Enterprise-grade practices and thoughtful AI adoption
• This leader will also be a key incident leader, comfortable stepping in as the owner during a live, customer-impacting incident, driving cross-functional coordination, and being accountable for the customer communications that follow
• Manage the daily support operations, including strategic resourcing and staffing, and serve as a first-line contact for regional escalations, while deeply understanding scientist pain points
• Build team culture and identity: run regular team meetings, celebrate wins and milestones, invest in career growth conversations, and develop a team where people feel supported and excited to grow
• Partner with the Incident Center of Excellence (CoE) to mature the incident process (post-incident reviews, closing CoE action items, formalizing communication playbooks and severity-based response criteria), and help build and run a sustainable off-hours coverage model – recruiting, training, and personally rotating in as an escalation responder
• Analyze incident and support metrics (volume, severity trends, time-to-resolution, comms timeliness) to inform staffing and process decisions, and report trends to CX leadership
• Drive consistent, effective adoption of AI tools across support workflows, piloting opportunities to reduce ticket-handling time, surface account context automatically, and free up Product Support Analyst time for higher-value work
• Collaborate with Build, Product, Technical Account Managers, Customer Success, and Professional Services to coordinate on customer issues and incidents, and ensure the team keeps help content and product knowledge current
• Represent support at customer-facing events as needed (customer visits, bootcamps, Benchtalk, conferences)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Robust healthcare benefits
• Family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• Retirement benefits

The right person will be a steady, credible presence with customers and internal partners and will be someone who can help the team flourish, by building out their professional, product & technical skills, and working with key business partners to achieve company goalsWe’re looking for a leader who approaches Support from the lens of holistic customer lifecycle ownership and is excited to recruit, coach, and grow a teamWe’re looking for someone who sees people leadership, incident readiness, and operational efficiency as one connected jobWe need leaders who are excited by innovation, and who can help us build and scale our global support strategy; adopting AI across day-to-day workflows and designing processes that enhance the customer and team experienceGenuine enthusiasm for using AI in support, ideally with hands-on experience piloting or driving adoptionExperience with Enterprise-grade support: managing high-stakes accounts holistically, building trust with sophisticated customers, and thinking beyond individual ticket resolutionWorking knowledge of support and incident tooling and industry best practices for world class customer service in technical support/services environment (e.g. Salesforce, Zendesk, JIRA, PagerDuty, or equivalent incident and support systems)Bachelor’s degree in a life sciences related field is recommended (biology, microbiology, genetics, biotechnology, neurology, etc.) - direct research or lab experience is a big plusCoaches with empathy and exercises judgment prioritizing issues by urgency, severity, and customer health contextSkilled in, or has strong aptitude for, customer-facing crisis communication:knowing what to say, when, and to whom during a live incident, and how to translate technical root cause into clear customer-facing narratives (RCAs/ISNs)Strong communicator and customer advocate – empathetic, resourceful, and detail-oriented, with excellent written and verbal skills across departments, remote teams, and external stakeholders. Comfortable working independently, adapting quickly to new demands, and solving complex problems with a strong sense of urgency and bias toward actionExperienced leader with a track record of building and developing a team, with 2+ years management experience and 5+ years SaaS support or professional services – or demonstrated leadership, with experience assigning ticket work and managing queues and resources