Senior Global Benefits Manager

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

Recursion is at the forefront of reimagining drug discovery through the integration of automated cell biology, high-dimensional and diverse data sets, and sophisticated analytics. We are currently seeking a Senior Global Benefits Manager who will play a critical role in supporting our team in the US, Canada, and the UK by managing benefits programs and providing exceptional service to our employees. This position is ideal for someone who is detail-oriented, highly organized, and passionate about delivering a positive employee experience. In this role you will: 

• Manage global benefits and leave policies and programs in compliance with federal and state laws, including FMLA and ADA
• Design, recommend, and implement benefit programs and manage day-to-day administration 
• Support Recursionauts as they navigate benefits and leaves programs, including developing communication tools to enhance understanding of available programs
• Survey industry trends to ensure that Recursion continues offering industry-leading, inclusive, and equitable employee benefits
• Partner closely with the Senior Director of Total Rewards to help manage the benefits strategy for Recursion’s global workforce
• Harmonize Recursion principles for equity with regional compliance requirements
• Manage the relationship with our insurance brokers to ensure we can continue to meet our goal of providing exceptional healthcare coverage for our employee population 
• Ensure employees understand and feel the value of our benefits offerings
• Partner closely with Legal to ensure Recursion has the appropriate compliance policies and protections in place to operate effectively

Tactical responsibilities:

• Global coordination of all benefits and retirement programs
• Overall day-to-day benefits activities in the US, Canada, and UK include:
• Benefits Data Maintenance, Benefits Offboarding, Benefits Onboarding, Payroll Benefits Deductions, Benefits Billing, Leaves, Retirement plans, Unemployment claims
• Respond to daily inquiries from employees
• Managing and Administering Leaves of Absence: 
• Short-term and long-term disability, maternity, paternity, sabbatical, accommodations 
• Managing and Administering our retirement plans and systems: 
• Fidelity day-to-day management, audits, committee management, and filings
• 401k audits and filings

Location

This position is based at our office located in Salt Lake City. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time per week in the office.

The Team You’ll Join 

This position is part of the People team and reports to the Head of Total Rewards and Systems. Our Total Rewards and Systems teams focus on and are responsible for designing, maintaining, and implementing Recursion’s overall Total Rewards strategy to attract and retain top talent. 

The Experience You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, HR Management, related field, or related experience
• 5+ years of progressive experience in employee benefits, preferably in a biotech, life sciences, or technology environment
• 3+ years as a Benefits Manager in a global employee setting 
• Experience managing vendor relationships, including brokers and benefits providers
• Experience managing benefits strategy, coordinating with the Total Rewards leader and other key stakeholders to ensure alignment with business objectives
• Experience monitoring government regulations and market trends to ensure that programs are current, competitive, and meet legal obligations 
• Experience using data to identify insights that drive action.
• Understand the importance of equity and inclusion as it pertains to benefits, and not only bring a strong sense of conviction, but ideas on how to continue leaning into diversity, equity, and inclusion

How You’ll be Supported

At Recursion, we’re working to solve some of the most meaningful challenges in human health. During onboarding, you’ll be introduced to the Recursion Mindset and Recursion OS through a blend of in-person and online resources designed to help you quickly embrace our culture. You’ll be paired with an onboarding "Trail Guide" to support you in your first months and connect with colleagues, both in person and remotely, who will guide you through the traditional and Recursion-specific aspects of your role. Additionally, you’ll join onboarding events, like Decoding Recursion, to deepen your understanding and integration into the team.

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At Recursion, we believe that every employee should be compensated fairly. Based on the skill and level of experience required for this role, the estimated current annual base range for this role is:

• Developing: $117,000
• Skilled: $130,000
• Expert: $143,000

To learn more about our level within levels, click here.

You will also be eligible for bonuses and equity compensation + our comprehensive benefits package for United States based candidates. The range displayed on each job posting reflects target ranges for US new hire salaries and is determined by job, level, and market factors.  

During the interview selection process, you will connect with a Talent Acquisition Partner who will be your advocate and ally to ensure you receive the appropriate compensation that meets your needs for your skills, experience, and relevant education/training, while also reviewing our very competitive total rewards package.

The Values That We Hope You Share:

• We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
• We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
• We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement, making time and space to recover. 
• Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity, but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
• We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.

Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here.

More About Recursion 

Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.

Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London, Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.

Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, local, or provincial human rights legislation. 

Recursion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursion’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion, and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.