Senior Product Manager – Inference
Job Summary
You Will:
Manage a Hybrid Inference Roadmap: Develop and execute a strategy for core prediction models that serves two distinct goals:
Productization into our core platform for the most high-usage use cases and
Tech-enabled-Service for internal teams to deliver bespoke predictions tocustomers. You will ruthlessly prioritize to ensure the core inference engineevolves to support both while minimizing forking.
Navigate Internal Complexity: Act as a diplomat and strategist within the will bring clarity to complex sometimes conflicting internal priorities drivingalignment between Engineering Science Go-to-Market and Product leadership.
Drive External Partnerships: Serve as the primary product interface for key partners helping to build and consume our predictions. You will translate partner scientific requirements into model capabilities manage expectations around prediction accuracy/confidence and ensure our technology creates value for them while remainingscalable for us.
Bridge the Gap (Science <> ML): Translate preclinical business objectives into technicaland data requirements. You will ensure that a single inference engine can effectivelyserve diverse use cases across the drug discovery pipeline (e.g. Target Identification Assessment vs. Study Design).
Measure Impact: Define and report on metrics that capture the value of the platformmoving beyond just model performance (F1 Precision/Recall) to demonstrate businessROI and scientific utility to diverse internal stakeholders.
You Have:
5 years preferably 7 years as a Product Manager with increasing responsibility onAI/ML or Data Science product
Biopharma/Preclinical Fluency: You understand the drug discovery lifecycle (from Target ID to Lead Optimization). You can speak the language of scientists to understand the nuance of how a prediction helps or hinders their specific workflow. 2 years experience working in the Biotech or Pharma industry is a strong plus where you canbring a deep understanding of pre-clinical R&D to this role.
Experience with Probabilistic Products: You have successfully managed productswhere the core value is a prediction or inference. You know how to handle userexpectations around uncertainty confidence scores and false positives/negatives inhigh-stakes environments.
Experience in Technology-as-a-Service: A proven track record managing inferencetechnology that is consumed via API or service layer where that same technology powersinternal user-facing products.
Exceptional Stakeholder Management: You excel at navigating internal politics andorganizational dynamics. You have a history of driving consensus among strong-mindedresearch scientists and engineers without having direct authority.
Technical Fluency: Familiarity with LLMs Knowledge Graphs or predictive dont need to write code but you must be able to debate trade-offs (e.g. latency generalization vs. specificity) with engineering leads.
Strategic Resilience: You are comfortable with ambiguity and can make data-informeddecisions even when the path forward isnt obvious.
Compensation:
$150000- $180000 CAD includes equity options
We know compensation is an important part of choosing your next role. The range shown reflects our target hiring range informed by market data internal equity and the roles current scope. Often the mid-range is where we tend to fall but individual offers may vary based on experience skills and the role scope.
BenchScis mission is to unravel the complexity of disease biology for the betterment of patients. We do this by applying neuro-symbolic AI to unravel the black box of disease biology the number one reason drug discovery projects fail.
Despite significant advancements drug discovery still takes over a decade and billions of dollars and 90% of clinical trials still fail. The core problem is getting the biology wrong before programs go to scale. BenchSci exists to fix that.
Our platform ASCEND is the worlds first neuro-symbolic AI built for biopharma disease biology. It gives scientists clarity in hours or weeks that previously took months. Our platform is used by 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies across 4500 research centers and grew 247% over three years (Deloitte Fast). Weve raised $200M from Generation Investment Management Googles Gradient Ventures TCV and F-Prime.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
BenchSci is a world leader in AI solutions for preclinical R&D. Using proprietary technology, we help decode the complexity of biomedical research.