Head of Solution Consulting R&D / Field CSO

Job 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. WHY THIS ROLE, WHY NOW R&D leaders trust people who have done the science. More than half of the world's top 50 biopharma companies already use Benchling, and many of the most important are in Europe. Our ambition is 10x faster science, from idea to first dose. With Science Foundries, launched at Benchtalk 2026, agents and scientists run entire R&D workflows together, so a three-person team can have the productive capacity of thirty. In a senior R&D role, you can change how one organisation does science. As our Field CSO, you'll take one question to R&D organisations across EMEA: how do we get from idea to first dose 10x faster? ROLE OVERVIEW You'll lead our EMEA R&D Solution Consulting organisation: a team of 12, with two first-line leaders covering our Enterprise and Strategic segments, plus occasional support for APAC deals. You'll be the scientific counterpart to our General Manager, EMEA, and work alongside our Field CTO. They lead on IT, data science and architecture; you lead on the scientists and how their work changes. RESPONSIBILITIES Be the scientific voice in the room. Brief the GM and account…