Senior Director, Translational Neuroscience

Please Note: Our offices will be closed for our annual Winter Break from Monday, December 23, 2024, through Thursday, January 2, 2025. Our response to your application will be delayed.

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

Recursion's approach to neuroscience therapeutic discovery leverages the largest proprietary biological and chemical dataset ever built-in human CNS relevant cell types to discover medicines unconstrained by human bias and research precedent. We are seeking a Senior Director, Translational Neuroscience that will partner with others to build a portfolio in support of neurodegenerative, neurodevelopmental and neuroimmunological diseases. In collaboration with our biopharma partners, you will lead a cross functional team of translational scientists to generate and advance innovative projects via inference-based drug discovery utilizing insights from Recursion’s maps of neurobiology. As an external-facing leader, you will work closely with our partners to understand, apply, and apply our differentiated approach to rapidly advance drug discovery. You will direct and inspire Recursion’s team using their deep and broad expertise and work to build novel drug discovery programs in neuroscience.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the generation of  translational focused drug discovery programs both internally and in partnership with external parties
• Advocate for Recursion's industry-leading platform, reimagining neuroscience drug discovery and decoding novel CNS biology through collaboration with scientific leaders, computational biologists, chemists, etc across the neuroscience organization
• Facilitate innovative drug discovery programs using Recursion's inference-based approach and industrialized processes, focusing across the field of neurobiology and incorporating translational approaches throughout the programs
• Coordinate with our business development team and partners, ensuring delivery goals and project expectations are satisfied
• Drive Discovery by liaising with internal and external groups to identify novel drug targets, pathways, and mechanisms for neurologic diseases, identifying robust and translational functional endpoints, and accelerating their clinical progress

Location:

This position is based at our headquarters in Salt Lake City, UT.  Relocation will be available for candidates who are not local to the area. 

The Team You’ll Join 

Reporting to the VP of Neuroscience, you will be joining Recursion’s partnership with Roche-Genentech as a key leader. In this role you will lead a team dedicated to the building of novel technology and projects in neurodegenerative diseases exploring Recursion’s maps to decode novel neurobiology. This team exploits a multi-omic approach toward the establishment and validation of novel hypotheses in neuroscience disease biology while incorporating functionally relevant translational endpoints. 

The Experience You’ll Need

• Ph.D. in Neuroscience or a related life science discipline and a minimum of 10+ years experience in the biotech or pharma industry
• Experience successfully driving therapeutic programs from early drug discovery to the clinic incorporating robust translational endpoints and with a desire to transform the process
• Familiarity with latest technological approaches (e.g. iPSC models, multi omics) and proven experience applying them to answer critical questions for neuroscience drug discovery programs
• Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate with scientific and strategic stakeholders
• Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate both science and vision
• Experience leading high-performing teams and collaborating seamlessly in a cross-functional matrix organization
• Experience bringing together novel insights from different disciplines to answer drug discovery/development challenges
• Bonus points for experience with high-visibility external collaborations with or within large pharma

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: $206,000 
• Skilled: $229,000
• Expert: $252,000

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.