Executive Director, Communications

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

Recursion is seeking a dynamic and strategic Executive Director of Communications to lead our external communications efforts. This pivotal role will be responsible for shaping and driving our narrative, ensuring clear, compelling, and consistent messaging across all external channels. You will be a key advisor to our executive team and a mentor to our communications team. If you are passionate about translating complex scientific concepts into impactful stories and driving a culture of excellence, we want to hear from you.

In this role you will: 

• Strategic Messaging & Content Creation: Shape and drive external messaging and content creation to ensure clear, compelling, and consistent communication across social media, press interviews, company announcements, and other external channels.
• Executive Communications Leadership: Provide strategic leadership and content for executive communications initiatives, empowering key executives with best-in-class media interview preparation and thought leadership.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Inspire, mentor, and elevate Comms team members to enhance the impact and effectiveness of external messaging and materials, prioritizing ongoing growth, constructive feedback, and a culture of collaboration.
• Process Optimization & Excellence: Continuously refine and optimize team processes to ensure a collaborative and high-performance approach to external communications, where creative ideas are encouraged, accelerated, and executed with excellence.
• Data Readout & Milestone Support: Strengthen and expand messaging and materials to support upcoming data readouts and product milestones.

The Team You Will Join:

Our Communications team is a dynamic and driven group of storytellers, strategists, and innovators. We're passionate about translating complex scientific breakthroughs into compelling narratives that resonate with diverse audiences. Working at the forefront of AI-powered drug discovery, we're dedicated to amplifying Recursion's mission and impact on the future of medicine.

The Experience You’ll Need: 

• 5-7+ years of external communications experience, preferably in TechBio 
• Proven track record of developing and executing successful external communications strategies in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex scientific information into clear and compelling narratives.
• Strong leadership and mentorship skills, with a passion for developing and empowering team members.
• Excellent relationship-building and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of media relations, social media, and other external communications channels.
• Experience supporting public companies and experience navigating data readouts and other material events.
• A passion for Recursion’s mission and a commitment to our core values.

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an office-based, hybrid position at our US headquarters located in Salt Lake City, UT. 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 $212,000 to $259,000 (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.