Job Description

Role

Who you are

This is a hands-on writing role for someone who can adapt tone and structure across formats, translate complex science for a technical audience, and juggle multiple concurrent projects as a true extension of the team
4+ years in content marketing or writing role, ideally at a B2B SaaS company
Strong writing and editing skills; comfortable adapting tone and structure across formats (guides, blogs, recaps, campaign content)
Experience working with or willingness to learn AI content tools (AirOps or similar)
Familiarity with CMS Contentful, SEMrush, GA4, or other marketing/SEO metrics tools
Nice-to-have: AEO (answer engine optimization) exposure
Nice-to-have: life sciences or biotech background
Comfortable working as an embedded contractor, partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders and managing multiple concurrent projects

What the job involves

This is a 5 month contract at 15-25 hours per week. Hybrid in-office role preferred at our San Francisco HQ
We're looking for a content marketer for a focused 5-month engagement to produce technical, persona- and modality-specific content that fuels our demand generation programs
Sitting on the Content Marketing team but working hand-in-hand with Demand Gen, you'll create and refresh the assets that move pipeline: product briefs, case studies, white papers, gated best-practice guides, and product-focused blog posts
You'll partner with GTM stakeholders on customer stories, write select pieces from scratch, and use AI tooling (AirOps) to draft and refine at scale
Create/Update Product Briefs, Case Studies, and White Papers to support Go-To-Market & Demand Generation Programs
Write persona- and modality-specific content across Development, Automation, In Vivo, PD, Biologics, and Chemistry product lines
Support customer story development in partnership with Sales/Field stakeholders
Write select pieces from scratch, particularly product-focused blog posts and articles
Work within AirOps to generate, edit, and refine AI-assisted drafts at scale
Write and edit gated best-practice guides for a technical audience
Refresh and update existing web content for SEO/AEO performance

Compensation: $70 – $85 per hour

Work Arrangement: 3 days a week in office, San Francisco Bay Area

About the Company

Company mission

To unlock the power of biotechnology.

As the pioneer of the R&D Cloud, Benchling offers a cloud-based informatics platform tailored for biotechnology. Its platform enables scientists across the globe to make breakthrough discoveries and bring next-gen biotechnology to market.

There's a sincerity and consciousness to Benchling's approach that stands out. This has led to the company being adopted by over 200,000 scientists from 1,000+ companies and 7,500 academic and research institutions globally (including 23andMe, Moderna, and the U.S. Department of Defense).

The rapidly advancing Biotechnology industry was at the forefront of the so-called "fourth industrial revolution", with the industry driving $2 to $4 trillion per year of economic impact over the next 20 years.

Benchling has put itself in a position of immense value within the industry with its expanding offerings. And now, off the back of over $400 million in total funding, the company is seeing accelerated growth.