Content Marketing Contractor (part time)

Description

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.

This is a 5 month contract at 15-25 hours per week. Hybrid in-office role preferred at our San Francisco HQ.

ROLE OVERVIEW

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. 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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

Conditions

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).

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.