Senior Manager / Manager of Compound Management

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

As the Manager of Compound Management at Recursion, you will be a pivotal leader in our mission to decode biology to radically improve lives. You will guide a team that serves as the foundation of our drug discovery platform, managing our extensive inventory of compounds and reagents with meticulous attention to detail. You'll collaborate with our interdisciplinary teams of biologists, engineers, and data scientists to enhance and develop processes that drive efficiency and success. Your role will be instrumental in scaling our operations to support our ever-growing high-throughput screening capabilities.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and mentor a team of compound management associates, fostering a culture of collaboration, growth, and high performance.
• Develop and implement strategies for sample and reagent logistics, inventory management, and distribution to support our highly automated screening platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their needs and deliver solutions that accelerate our research and development pipelines.
• Drive the evaluation and implementation of new technologies and systems to improve the efficiency and quality of our sample management processes.
• Ensure data integrity and quality for all managed samples, contributing to the robustness of our experimental data.
• Manage relationships with external vendors and partners to support our compound acquisition and management needs.

The Team You’ll Join

You will be leading the Compound Management team, a growing and collaborative group at the heart of Recursion's discovery engine. This team is responsible for the critical task of provisioning drug candidates and reagents for our R&D laboratories, working with state-of-the-art robotic platforms and laboratory automation. You will join a fast-paced and innovative environment where you'll work on multiple projects simultaneously, contributing directly to our mission of bringing new therapeutics to patients faster.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Chemistry, Life Sciences, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in compound management, sample management, or a related field in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry.
• 3+ years of experience in a leadership or management role, with a demonstrated ability to mentor and develop a team.
• Expertise with automated liquid handlers and other laboratory automation, as well as LIMS or other sample management software. Strong preference for Cellario systems, Mosaic LIMS and Hamilton Star liquid handlers. 
• Excellent project management, communication, and collaboration skills.
• A passion for working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and the ability to adapt to changing priorities.

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an office-based position at our US headquarters located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Employees are expected to work in the office 100% 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 $118,600 to $173,000 (USD). You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package. 

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.