Senior People Operations Generalist

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior People Operations Generalist to join our growing global People team. As the lead People Operations contact in the UK, you will play a crucial role in shaping the employee experience, fostering a positive and productive work environment, and ensuring smooth People Operations for our UK colleagues. This is a brand new role for Recursion and as such the successful candidate will play a huge part in designing and building the People function in the UK. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic, global organization at the forefront of drug discovery.

In this role, you will

• Be the primary point of contact for all People Operations-related matters for Recursion employees based in the UK, ensuring compliance with UK employment law.
• Actively participate in the global People Operations team, contributing to the development and implementation of People initiatives and programs.
• Proactively identify and address employee relations issues, providing guidance and support to employees and managers.
• Take ownership of global immigration and visas for all employees.
• Manage and optimize the use of our HRIS system (HiBob) in the UK, including implementing new features, improving and automating processes, and ensuring data integrity.
• Identify opportunities to leverage technology and automation to enhance the employee experience and streamline People Operations.
• Work closely with the global Payroll team, providing support and data as necessary.

The Team You’ll Join 

Our People Team is the foundation of our company’s workforce, creating the conditions to enable and sustain high performing teams, and helping employees do the best work of their careers. We are talent scouts and partners, creating experiences and outcomes that support our employees and drive business success. We focus on scalable solutions that add value across geographies, while providing individual advisory partnership and support where it matters most. With a people + data approach, we ensure Recursion has the people, culture and operating dynamics to accelerate drug discovery and get medicines to patients faster.

The Experience You’ll Need

• 6+ years of experience as a People Generalist, with proven experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. A CIPD qualification is desirable but proven, hands-on HR experience is much more important to us.
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and compliance including UK Immigration practices.
• Experience managing employee relations issues and providing guidance to employees and managers.
• Experience building and using systems (we use HiBob and CultureAmp) and operational excellence.
• Confidence and ability to work independently whilst also operating as part of a global team.
• A passion for technology and a strong understanding of how AI and automation can be used to improve the employee experience.

Working Location:

This position is based at our office located in London. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time in the office. We would also expect some infrequent travel to other office locations in the UK, USA and Canada. 

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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.