Vice President, Project Leadership

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

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. 

As the Vice President, Asset Project Leadership, you will play a pivotal role in championing the use of advanced computational approaches in clinical development and help redefine traditional paradigms of drug development. As a visionary and strategic leader, you will help develop and execute the compound strategy, drive innovation, and optimize program execution. Your influence will ensure seamless communication across all levels of the organization while maximizing the value of each compound throughout its lifecycle - balancing speed, cost, and impact.  

You will lead and manage a team of Project Team Leaders to drive the success of our pipeline compounds. You will take ownership of at least one project/program team, guiding the overall direction and ensuring the timely delivery of critical drug development initiatives. 

In This Role You Will: 

• Cultivate  a high-performing team by providing mentorship, guidance, and clear direction to the Project Leaders, ensuring accountability and clarity across all assigned programs 
• Collaborate with stakeholders to refine and implement the strategic direction of key programs. Drive alignment and facilitate strategic decisions to accelerate development and ensure program success 
• Foster strong partnerships with functional leaders, Recursion leadership, and external collaborators to cultivate a high-performing, collaborative team environment that drives sustainable success
• Establish and improve processes that support the drug discovery and development portfolio
• Partner with key stakeholders, including Finance and functional leadership, to ensure programs are appropriately resourced, adhering to specified timelines and budgets for optimal program delivery
• Contribute strategic insights into the assessments of external opportunities for the drug discovery and development pipeline

The Team You’ll Join 

As the VP, Asset Project Leadership, you will work within the Development team, reporting directly to the Chief R&D Officer and Chief Commercial Offer. 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

• A PhD or MD in life sciences or related scientific discipline with deep expertise in drug development 
• 15+ years of biotech/pharmaceutical industry experience with a proven track record of advancing drug development programs 
• Proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams while driving strategic execution
• Expertise in cross-functional drug development, computational approaches and data-driven decision-making 
• Successful track record of leading programs from early-stage development through NDA filing
• Demonstrated, in-depth knowledge of the drug development processes and deliverables at all stages of development
• Exceptional executive-level communication and stakeholder management 
• Strong financial and resource management skills to optimize program delivery 

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an onsite role based in our New York City office with a hybrid schedule. Employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time.

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 $315,000 to $385,000 (USD). You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package. 

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The Values We Hope You Share:

• We act boldly with integrity. We are unconstrained in our thinking, take calculated risks, and push boundaries, but never at the expense of ethics, science, or trust. 
• We care deeply and engage directly. Caring means holding a deep sense of responsibility and respect - showing up, speaking honestly, and taking action.
• We learn actively and adapt rapidly. Progress comes from doing. We experiment, test, and refine, embracing iteration over perfection.
• We move with urgency because patients are waiting. Speed isn’t about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
• We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability, we enable trust and autonomy—leaders take accountability for decisive action, and teams own outcomes together. 
• We are One Recursion. True cross-functional collaboration is about trust, clarity, humility, and impact. Through sharing, we can be greater than the sum of our individual capabilities.

Our values underpin the employee experience at Recursion. They are the character and personality of the company demonstrated through how we communicate, support one another, spend our time, make decisions, and celebrate collectively.

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.