Vice President of Clinical Development, Oncology

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

At Recursion, our mission is to industrialize and transform the development of medicines by integrating data-driven insights and advanced analytics throughout the entire development lifecycle. We are seeking an experienced, collaborative, and strategic oncology executive to champion the use of advanced computational approaches in clinical development and help redefine traditional paradigms of oncology drug development. In this role, you will help us realize a future-oriented, technology-driven vision for the oncology portfolio by defining and executing our oncology strategy and ensuring that resources are applied in alignment with these strategic priorities

In This Role You Will: 

• Provide significant input on clinical plans, trial design, clinical trial execution, medical governance, at a program level, and ensure appropriate and adequate clinical resourcing. 
• Define disease area strategies and priorities, ensure patient focus and robust evidence package to support successful filings, approvals and commercialization and patient access. Accountable for the ethical conduct of studies in the oncology portfolio. 
• Operate as a single point of accountability for medical governance at the clinical level. Ensure adequate clinical oversight of clinical research initiatives and provide a global and objective viewpoint of safety and efficacy by cultivating and sustaining a culture of openness and transparency with patient wellbeing as the key driver in decision-making.
• Evaluate, integrate, and scale AI/ML tools to optimize trial design, enhance patient recruitment strategies, and drive real-time data analysis. Foster a deep partnership with data science teams to seamlessly embed real-world evidence, big data, and advanced analytics into clinical decision-making, ensuring smarter, faster, and more adaptive clinical development
• Responsible for drafting and reviewing medical aspects of core study and regulatory documents (i.e., protocols, investigator brochures, INDs, briefing documents, etc.).
• Manage and maintain strong, effective relationships with key external stakeholders and partners (i.e., Key Opinion Leaders and investigators, consultants, patient advocacy groups and other external clinical trial participants) to ensure that the primary goals of the clinical development programs are met.
• Responsible for exploring opportunities for simplification, ensuring that this area is as effective and as efficient as possible to get drugs to patients faster. 

The Team You’ll Join 

In this VP role, you’ll report directly to the Chief Medical Officer and will be a key member of our leadership team. The Development Team is an empowered, execution-minded group of clinical development professionals responsible for translating and industrializing Recursion’s innovative science to patients.  Our team leverages cutting-edge clinical technology to accelerate drug development, optimize trial design, and enhance patient outcomes. From deploying AI-powered platforms for data analysis and predictive modeling to integrating real-world evidence and biomarker discovery tools, we ensure our clinical programs are both efficient and precise.

The Experience You’ll Need
You are a driven, strategic planner who is passionate about driving development and execution that enables innovative pipeline impact and delivery of transformative medicines to patients. You have exemplary communication and presentation skills, high-level negotiation skills, and the ability to resolve and influence across all levels of the organization. 

• MD with Board Certification (or equivalent) in Medical Oncology or related Oncology Specialty; MD/PhD preferred.
• Considerable pharmaceutical industry experience and a track record of accomplishments is required.
• Experience working on innovative oncology programs that leverage a strong understanding of digital transformation, clinical trial technologies, and data science, including AI/ML applications in clinical development
• Understands the entirety of R&D across the development/commercial life cycle to allow impact across all functions: discovery, late-stage development, regulatory, manufacturing, and commercial.
• Track record of success working in complex, matrixed, global, and multi-disciplinary organizations with high accountability and multiple lines of reporting.
• Proven ability to strategize, prioritize, and manage multiple projects simultaneously to ensure quality, timely, on-target, and within-budget accomplishment of tasks.
• Attention to detail while discriminating between critical and non-critical activities and following established processes while identifying areas for process improvement.
• Highly developed ethics and integrity, with demonstrated ethical medical decision-making skills.

Location:

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

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: $343,000 USD 
• Skilled: $381,000 USD
• Expert: $419,000 USD 

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

You will also be eligible for bonuses and equity compensation + our comprehensive benefits package. The range displayed on each job posting reflects target ranges for 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.