Chief of Staff to CEO

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

As the Chief of Staff to the CEO, you will work directly alongside Recursion’s CEO and Co-founder. This role puts you in a position to see firsthand how decisions are made, and actions are taken in a leading TechBio company. Your responsibilities will span from significant strategic initiatives — like evaluating new technology/trends/companies, reviewing internal and external comms and presentations, and helping prepare background information for key meetings — to essential administrative tasks, such as partnering closely with our administrative team to organize travel and prioritize meetings.  

To succeed in the role, you’ll be expected to dive into all aspects of Recursion and the TechBio industry, be comfortable with consistent and relatively intense travel, and develop deep trust with not only our CEO, but our entire senior leadership team so that you can find effective ways to continually improve how we leverage our CEO’s time and energy. Depending on your ambitions, this role is an incredibly unique opportunity to gain exceptional first-hand experience that can prepare you for future leadership positions or prepare you well for advanced studies at a top-tier business or graduate school.

In this role, you will:

• Demonstrate relentless dedication to optimizing our CEO's time and energy to achieve our company’s ambitions, amplifying effectiveness.
• Analyze industry trends, new companies/technology, macroeconomic and/or government data, internal operational plans, and other types of information to synthesize and highlight critical takeaways.  
• Participate in high-level meetings, prepare agendas and background materials, document key discussions, and track action items.
• Facilitate communication between our CEO, internal teams, and external stakeholders 
• Partner with our CEO’s admin to support and prioritize schedules, coordinate extensive travel arrangements, and ensure seamless day-to-day transit and operations 

The Team You’ll Join 

While you will be working side-by-side with our CEO, you will be reporting to the VP of Business Operations and further supported by the entire Business Operations group at Recursion. This group is responsible for project and program management, strategic planning, corporate goals/priorities, org design and resource tracking, corporate data and analytics, operational/administrative support, and other corporate initiatives. By working directly with our CEO while supported by the Business Operations group, you will be well-positioned to have an outsized impact on our company trajectory.  

The Experience You’ll Need

• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree and exceptional academic performance in a demanding field (preferably STEM or Business). Candidates considering an MBA from a top-tier university in the future or looking to accelerate their career are highly encouraged to apply. 
• Professional Experience: 2-4 years in investment banking, equity research, management consulting, or a similarly demanding environment - preferably from a MBB or similar consulting firm, or a bulge bracket bank or similar. 
• Analytical Skills: Exceptional ability to synthesize complex information into actionable strategies, and able to quickly learn and utilize the latest AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT).
• Organizational Skills: Proven track record of managing multiple priorities with meticulous attention to detail.
• Interpersonal Skills: Excellent interpersonal abilities to interact effectively with senior executives and external partners.
• Adaptability: High level of flexibility to handle tasks ranging from strategic planning to administrative duties. 
• Availability: Willingness to work extended hours and travel frequently, including internationally.

Working Location:

This position is based at our HQ office located in Salt Lake City, UT. There is also a travel expectation to this role where you would be expected to travel with (or before) the CEO very frequently.

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.

 

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: $112,500
• Skilled: $125,000
• Expert: $137,500 

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.

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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.