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About the Role
Benchling is seeking a highly experienced Executive Assistant to provide strategic and operational support to senior sales leaders, including the Head of Go-to-Market and VPs of Sales AMER and EMEA. This role operates as a key partner in driving leadership efficiency, clarity, and focus within a fast-paced, metrics-driven revenue organization. The Executive Admins team is built on trust, transparency, and mutual accountability, aiming to set the tone for company culture and foster an inclusive environment.
Responsibilities
- Perform extensive calendar management and prioritization across multiple time zones for senior executives.
- Prepare domestic and international travel arrangements, itineraries, and timely expense filings.
- Manage all forms of daily correspondence, ensuring timely, professional, and accurate responses with a high degree of confidentiality.
- Collaborate on and manage key projects and priorities across multiple functions.
- Lead planning and coordination for presentations, meetings, and dissemination of strategic information.
- Plan and execute high-profile events, off-sites, and special functions with precision and creativity.
- Lead full-cycle planning and own end-to-end logistics for Sales events including venue contracting, travel, budget, and workback planning.
- Manage the executive customer-meeting program during Benchling's annual customer conference, coordinating private meeting rooms, scheduling, and onsite flow between Sales/CX teams and customers.
- Administer the recognition program (High5s) for the Sales organization — nominations, approvals, budget tracking.
- Support weekly pipeline/forecast call logistics and follow-ups for regional sales standups.
- Coordinate interview scheduling for Sales hiring across multiple time zones (AMER/EMEA).
- Manage cross-region calendar coordination between AMER (Pacific & East Coasts) and EMEA (UK-time) sales leadership.
- Attend key meetings, help develop and communicate agendas, take notes, and track action items through to completion.
- Partner closely with Workplace, Events, and IT teams to provide on-the-ground logistics support.
- Build strong relationships across the organization, establishing yourself as a trusted, proactive connector.
- Serve as a senior member of the EA team, providing strategic thought partnership and mentorship to peers.
- Support ad-hoc projects and initiatives as needed.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience supporting VP or C-level leaders, ideally in enterprise SaaS sales or tech organizations.
- Proven success managing multiple executives with competing, high-stakes priorities.
- Experience managing multi-day, 50–100+ person corporate events (kickoffs, regional offsites) including budget ownership and vendor/contract coordination.
- Comfort supporting a fast-moving, metrics-driven sales organization with frequent last-minute schedule changes.
- Exceptional organizational skills and a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset.
- Polished communicator with high emotional intelligence and impeccable discretion.
- Adept with productivity and collaboration tools including Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, and Navan.
- Familiarity with Salesforce (viewer-level), procurement/expense tools (ZIP or equivalent), and event/travel logistics platforms is a plus.
- Thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment while maintaining a calm, steady presence.
- Passionate about biotech, innovation, and working with purpose-driven teams.
Skills
- Calendar management
- Travel arrangements
- Expense reporting
- Correspondence management
- Project management
- Presentation coordination
- Event planning
- Logistics coordination
- Budget management
- Vendor management
- Contract coordination
- Google Workspace
- Slack
- Zoom
- Navan
- Salesforce (viewer-level)
- Procurement tools
- Expense tools
- Event logistics platforms
- Travel logistics platforms
Location
- San Francisco HQ
Work Type
- Hybrid
- In-office
- Contract
Experience Level
- 7+ years supporting VP or C-level leaders
About the Company
- We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.