Director, Organizational Development & Effectiveness

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The impact you’ll make:

At Recursion, we are decoding biology to radically improve lives. To accelerate our mission, we need exceptional people doing the best work of their careers in an environment that is inclusive, innovative, and purpose-driven.

This role is a blend of systems thinker, coach, designer, change catalyst, and grounded practitioner. The right person for this role has advised on and led transformation from within an organization, believes in fit-for-purpose organizational design and exceptional employee experiences as drivers of business impact, and can turn workforce insights and future signals into tangible organizational prototypes that spark real change. They quickly understand what makes an organization unique — and know how to pull the right structural, cultural, and talent levers to make change real and successful.

In this role, you will: 

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on team and organizational dynamics, diagnosing organizational health and effectiveness challenges, and identifying accelerants
• Advise leaders on their organizational design, team structures and workflows to meet business needs, establishing design principles, governance and change processes to support agility, consistency and transparency across functions
• Partner with the People Experience team to design, interpret, and socialize organizational health metrics (e.g., spans/layers, attrition, internal mobility, etc.) to inform interventions
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition team on strategic workforce planning, including identifying critical capabilities, gaps, and succession needs
• Strengthen Recursion’s leaders and leadership bench by incorporating our leadership expectations throughout the employee lifecycle - from hiring to development to performance assessment and career pathing.
• Own and evolve performance management by coaching senior leaders (1:1 and group), refining talent review and succession planning processes and actions, and building cross functional communities of leadership best practice

The Team You Will Join:

Recursion’s People Team creates the conditions to enable and sustain high-performing teams, and helps 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: 

We’re looking for a proactive, curious operator with a clear passion for organizational effectiveness, developing leaders, and improving the experience of work. Ideally you bring experience working in a biotech, pharma or scientific research-driven environment, and have the expertise in:

• Applying systems thinking to diagnose organizational health and design interventions that address root causes
• Partnering effectively with scientists, engineers, and business leaders to bridge disciplines and align diverse professional cultures
• Coaching senior technical and organizational leaders to improve or sustain their impact
• Leading large-scale organizational change and cultural transformation initiatives
• Influencing senior leaders, constructively challenge perspectives, and build trusted executive relationships
• Translating engagement data, performance metrics, and qualitative feedback into clear insights and actionable executive recommendations
• Communicating complex ideas with clarity and precision in both written and verbal formats
• Managing a Slack-intensive operating environment
• Even better if you have a Master’s or PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, or a related field

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an office-based, hybrid position at either our New York City, New York, office or our HQ in Salt Lake City, Utah. 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 $192,500 to $250,800 (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 decoding biology to radically improve lives. Recursion is advancing a portfolio of differentiated investigational medicines across its wholly owned and partnered pipeline in oncology, rare disease, neuroscience, immunology, and other therapeutic areas with significant unmet need. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, an AI-native, end-to-end drug discovery and development platform integrating biology, chemistry, and clinical development into a unified intelligence system. Powered by proprietary multimodal data, purpose-built AI models, and bilingual teams fluent in both science and AI, the Recursion OS is designed to translate complex science into medicines that matter — faster, better, and at scale — for patients who are waiting.

Recursion’s platform infrastructure is anchored in Salt Lake City, Utah and Milton Park, Oxfordshire, where its automated biology and chemistry laboratories generate proprietary data at industrial scale. Recursion also maintains offices in New York, Montréal, and London, three global hubs for talent and leadership at the intersection of AI and scientific innovation. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on X 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.