Associate Director/Director of Clinical Operations

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

Recursion is at the forefront of reimagining drug discovery through the integration of automated cell biology, high-dimensional and diverse data sets, and sophisticated analytics. You will leverage your strong track record of advancing precision medicines in early phase oncology clinical trials to lead operational oversight and execution for one or more program(s) across our growing pipeline of novel small molecule therapeutics in cancer. You will need a unique combination of strong fundamentals in clinical development and the ability to be creative and effective in delivering clinical operations strategy for each program. 

In this role, you will:

• Oversee and lead all aspects of clinical trial execution for one or more programs from IND through proof-of-concept and pivotal studies
• Contribute to clinical development strategy, clin tech initiatives, and iterative improvement of process and systems to optimize and accelerate trial execution
• Serve as Clinical Operations subject matter expert on program teams and trial document generation including protocols, informed consent, trial management plans, etc. 
• Utilize strong therapeutic area and operational expertise to enhance innovation and efficiency in clinical trial design and execution 
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Provide leadership to clinical operations team and/or direct reports, including, but not limited to Clinical Trial Associates, Clinical Trial Managers, and/or Clinical Project Managers

The Team You’ll Join 

Reporting to the Head of Clinical Operations, you will be an essential member of the Recursion Development Team and a leader within the Clinical Operations team, who are dedicated to operational excellence across our programs. The Development Team is an empowered, execution-minded group of drug development professionals responsible for translating Recursion’s innovative science to patients through clinical development activities.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree  in a scientific or healthcare-related field
• 8-10+ years of progressive experience in clinical operations roles within the biopharmaceutical industry with:
• at least 3+ years most recent experience at a small or midsize biotech working in a nimble, highly cross functional team environment, and, 
• at least 3-5+ years of people management/leadership experience within a biotech organization 
• Early phase (Phase 1, 2) oncology experience at a biotech/Sponsor is required
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of clinical trial processes from Phase 1 through pivotal studies, including principles for accelerated trial execution
• Demonstrated track-record of efficient and effective clinical trial planning and execution, including risk management and mitigation strategies
• Excellent working knowledge of FDA, ICH, GCP regulations and guidelines
• An understanding of relationship management principles across diverse internal and external stakeholders over the course of a clinical development program
• Willingness and ability to travel to sites, conferences and Recursion offices as needed

Working Location & Compensation:

This position is ideally based at our office located in New York City but may also be located in our Salt Lake City headquarters. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time in the office.  Relocation support can be provided for this role.

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 $184,000 to $277,400 (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 (NASDAQ: RXRX) is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to radically improve lives. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously generate 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 Toronto, Montréal, New York, London, Oxford area, 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.  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. 

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.