Senior Recruiter (UK)

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make:

As a Senior Recruiter at Recursion, you will be a strategic talent partner responsible for building critical business capabilities that help us accelerate the discovery and delivery of life-saving medicines. Based in the UK, you will partner closely with senior leaders to deliver exceptional talent in a timely manner.

This role is for you if you are dissatisfied with the pace of traditional drug development and motivated to apply your recruiting expertise to a bold, interdisciplinary approach. The work will be demanding and fast-paced, but deeply meaningful. You will influence and drive hiring strategy in a fast-moving, scientific environment. Your work will directly shape the teams responsible for advancing our clinical programs and scaling Recursion globally.

In This Role, You Will:

• Act as a strategic recruiting partner to leaders across various functions, advising on hiring strategy, role design, and market dynamics, with a primary focus on Clinical Development
• Lead end-to-end recruitment for senior and specialised roles across the UK and US, from intake through offer and close
• Build and maintain robust talent pipelines for clinical, regulatory, and related disciplines within biotech and life sciences
• Apply strong knowledge of UK and US hiring markets, including regional practices and compliance considerations
• Deliver a high-quality, inclusive candidate experience, acting as a compelling ambassador for Recursion’s mission and culture
• Leverage data and insight to track progress, diagnose challenges, and continuously improve hiring outcomes
• Partner closely with the wider People Team to ensure recruiting efforts align with broader people and organisational strategies

The Team You Will Join:

The 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:

• 7-10+ years in recruiting, with deep focus on Clinical Development hiring efforts 
• Proven background recruiting within biotech, pharma, or life sciences corporate environments
• Demonstrated experience supporting both UK and US hiring, including senior and specialised roles
• Experience with leveraging AI recruiting technologies and best practices 
• Strong capability in managing complex, full-cycle searches in high-growth or research-driven organisations
• Excellent stakeholder partnering skills, with confidence advising senior leaders and influencing hiring decisions
• Strong sourcing expertise and established networks within clinical and biotech talent markets
• Sound judgement, prioritisation, and resilience in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• A commitment to delivering a thoughtful, inclusive candidate experience
• Prior experience with Greenhouse & HiBob are a plus! 

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an office-based, hybrid position at one of our offices in either Milton Park or London, England. 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 £66,600 to £89,300 (GBP). 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.