Associate Director, Asset Project Leadership

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

At Recursion, our mission is to industrialize and transform the development of medicines by integrating data-driven insights and analytics across the development lifecycle.  As Associate Director, Asset Project Leadership, you will leverage advanced computational approaches and proprietary Recursion insights for the advancement of portfolio goals via asset in-licensing, partnering and creative development strategies.  You will work closely with functional leaders across Clinical Development, Business Development, Platform and ClinTech to help craft, optimize and execute asset strategy.  Ultimately, you will make significant contributions toward the advancement of transformative medicines for patients.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with functional leads across the BD and portfolio continuum to ensure seamless execution of data-driven in-licensing strategy. 
• Leverage scientific acumen and diligence experience to refine and prioritize the most meaningful Recursion OS insights to ensure sourcing of unintuitive opportunities.
• Exploit your bilingual proficiency across science/tech to overcome inefficiencies in search & evaluation and asset due diligence.
• Propagate the Recursion mindset of decoding biology to radically change lives by constantly seeking transformative improvements in how we advance innovative concepts for clinical benefit.
• Drive and enable a culture of accountability, ownership and scientific innovation aimed at delivering prioritized medicines to patient populations in need.

The Team You’ll Join 

Reporting to the Director, Asset Project Leadership, you will be an essential member of the Portfolio team. The Team is an empowered, execution-minded group of professionals whose role is at the interface of drug development, BD, strategy and operations and is central to the success of the asset portfolio.

The Experience You’ll Need

• PhD in life sciences or a related field.
• 5+ years of post-PhD experience in drug development within the biotech and/or pharmaceutical industry.
• Proven ability to assess innovative opportunities, conduct diligence on assets, and evaluate disparate licensing substrate across disease areas, MOAs and therapeutic approaches.
• Deep technical expertise in oncology, with strength in immunology/inflammation and metabolism a bonus.
• Demonstrable experience in translational, regulatory, biomarker and early ClinDev strategy.
• Incisive thinker with exceptional ability to decipher scientific complexity
• Strong ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks in a dynamic environment.
• Outstanding interpersonal and influencing skills 

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an office-based, hybrid role in our Salt Lake City or New York City offices. 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 $180,600 to $229,000. 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.