Senior Counsel, Privacy and Compliance

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

Recursion is currently seeking a Counsel role specializing in data privacy and compliance work to support the expansion of its clinical trials and compliance infrastructure. The role will have the opportunity to maintain and shape a privacy-by-design infrastructure through careful vendor onboarding, data mapping, developing fit-for-purpose policies, and negotiating privacy terms in transactions. The role will also support the growth of the compliance function within the Legal department through careful right-sizing of guidance, implementation, and training as well as close partnerships across functions. 

The ideal candidate is business-minded, collaborative, and comfortable translating privacy and regulatory requirements into actionable guidance for cross-functional teams. The candidate will be fluent in international data privacy regulations and requirements as well as corporate compliance familiarity with biotech or pharmaceutical companies. The role will collaborate with different groups across the company, with a particular focus on our Clin Tech, Clinical Operations, and Human Resources group. The successful candidate must use a practical, solutions-focused approach to help accelerate the Company’s goals through the compliance function.

In this role, you will:

Data Privacy

• Develop and maintain infrastructure to comply with varying data privacy regulations in Europe and new countries in support of clinical trial plans
• Review and negotiate data protection terms, DPAs, vendor agreements, customer agreements, security addenda, and other contracts from a privacy standpoint
• Monitor and advise on privacy and compliance developments, including U.S. state privacy laws, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, sector-specific privacy rules, and emerging AI and cybersecurity requirements
• Support incident response, data subject rights requests, privacy impact assessments, transfer impact assessments, and regulatory inquiries
• Support vendor onboarding and maintenance for vendors processing personal data
• Maintain the company’s Record of Processing Activity
• Counsel on privacy-by-design reviews, data mapping, vendor onboarding, AI/data use cases, and new geographical expansions
• Draft policies and perform trainings to support data protection compliance

Compliance

• Assist the Legal team in drafting and implementing corporate compliance policies, training and follow-up 
• Partner closely with Human Resources and other functions to identify needs for policies or guidance
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders on creating a “right size” compliance function that enables business growth while protecting against risk

The Team You’ll Join 

You will be joining a dynamic team of attorneys and stock administration professionals. The team works closely and collaboratively with one another on overall legal and compliance strategy, departmental budget, projects, and professional development. The team relies on a communicative and supportive atmosphere to enable nimble advice and prioritization aligned with business goals.

The Experience You’ll Need

• At least four years of experience in data privacy counseling in the biotech or pharmaceutical industry, at a law firm or preferably in-house 
• Strong working knowledge of privacy and data protection laws, including U.S. state privacy laws, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and related regulatory frameworks.
• Experience reviewing and negotiating privacy, security, and data protection provisions in commercial agreements.
• Ability to provide clear, practical advice in a fast-moving business environment.
• Strong judgment, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple projects independently.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• IPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, or similar privacy certification preferred.
• Experience building or scaling privacy and compliance programs in-house preferred
• Admitted to practice in at least one state and eligible to practice law in Utah as in-house counsel

Working Location & Compensation:

Making SLC or NYC your home base is ideal; however, we will consider remote work for this position. We ask that remote employees commit to regular on-site visits for routine work and departmental events. 

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 $229,000 to $281,600 (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.