Stock Plan Administrator

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

The Stock Plan Administrator role is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic, mission-driven company at a critical growth stage. In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring the integrity, compliance, and equity of our stock-based compensation programs while supporting employees’ understanding and access to these benefits. You will work cross-functionally with the Legal, People (HR), Payroll, Accounting, FP&A, and Internal and external Audit teams to maintain and improve our stock plans and processes.

You will provide crucial support in partnership with our Stock Services Team in managing and evolving our equity programs, including the post-acquisition integration of target company stock plans and legacy grants. This role requires an equity-conscious and legally focused approach to stock administration. You will ensure compliance with relevant laws, tax regulations, and governance requirements while advancing equitable access to ownership opportunities for employees across the globe (e.g., the US, Canada, and the UK). 

As a strategic partner within a fast-paced public company environment, you will bring attention to detail, adaptability, and a solutions-oriented mindset to ensure the company’s stock-based programs align with legal requirements, ethical considerations, and best practices in equity compensation.

In this role, you will: 

• Administer Stock Plans with Legal & Compliance Oversight
• Execute transactions involving stock options, RSU vesting, and ESPP purchases in close collaboration with Legal, HR, and Finance.
• Ensure compliance with SEC, IRS, SOX, and global securities laws, as well as internal governance policies.
• Monitor and interpret changing regulatory requirements that impact equity compensation programs.
• Ensure Accurate Equity Record-Keeping & Reporting
• Maintain database integrity and oversee accurate record-keeping of stock plan data using our stock plan platform.
• Reconcile equity transaction records between stock administration, HR, and payroll systems to ensure data accuracy.
• Support financial reporting, audits, and tax compliance efforts related to equity compensation.
• Enhance Accessibility & Equity in Stock Programs
• Assist in the expansion of stock-based compensation programs internationally, ensuring fair and legally compliant implementation across different jurisdictions.
• Support corporate transactions, including M&A, with a focus on integrating stock plans equitably and transparently.
• Educate employees on stock benefits, tax implications, and plan participation to promote financial literacy and equitable access.

The Experience You’ll Need

We are open to exploring non-traditional backgrounds for this role with a pairing of relevant and tangential experience in areas like accounting, paralegal/legal support, etc. 

• 3-5+ years of experience in stock plan administration, with a strong understanding of equity compensation in both startup and public company environments.
• OR experience in accounting with equity experience 
• OR paralegal with equity experience 
• Experience managing international public company stock options, RSUs, and ESPP programs
• Background in legal, accounting, or compliance fields is a plus.
• Experience supporting corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions.
• Knowledge of SOX compliance and financial reporting related to stock compensation.
• Certified Equity Professional (CEP) Level One or higher preferred.

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: $107,000 
• Skilled: $118,000
• Expert: $131,000

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.