Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Executive Director, Asset Team Lead
Remote Opportunity - United States · Director
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About the role
- The Impact You'll Make As the Recursion clinical asset pipeline continues to mature through key inflection points, the advancing assets require leaders who can translate scientific complexity into strategic clarity.
- You will play a pivotal role ensuring advanced computational approaches and proprietary Recursion OS/ClinTech advantages are leveraged across the portfolio continuum, redefining traditional paradigms of drug development.
- The Portfolio Team is execution-minded and analytically rigorous - fluent in both science and AI - and responsible for industrializing Recursion's innovative science to advance medicines that matter.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive asset strategy for small molecule clinical programs in oncology and immunology/inflammation - integrating competitive positioning, mechanistic differentiation, biomarker strategy, and patient segmentation to sharpen go/no-go and prioritization decisions across the portfolio
- Develop and pressure-test the competitive narrative for each oncology and I&I portfolio asset, building the evidence base that will inform leadership decisions, partnering discussions and investor communications
- Partner with functional line leaders across clinical development, BD, finance and platform teams to ensure resource allocation reflects strategic conviction and supports the most impactful programs and workstreams
- Proven ability to build and articulate the strategic and competitive case for clinical assets - integrating mechanistic differentiation, competitive dynamics, regulatory and market considerations.
- Exceptional executive presence - able to synthesize complexity into clear, conviction-led recommendations and present with confidence to senior leadership and external partners
- Including your own.
- Working across functional lines, you will partner with preclinical, clinical and platform teams, promoting communication, alignment and optimization of functional processes to ensure delivery of portfolio goals & transformative medicines for patients.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- A PhD in life sciences or related scientific discipline with deep expertise in drug discovery & development required
- 10+ years of biotech/pharma experience with a proven track record of asset-level strategic leadership, advancing programs through clinical stage-gates with demonstrable impact on portfolio value
- This is a remote position based in the United States with required periodic travel.
Compensation
- In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and a comprehensive benefits package.
Benefits
- Deep expertise in the development of small molecule therapeutics for oncology and immunology/inflammation required, expertise in rare disease a bonus
- Team Lead, you will drive the strategic positioning of assets, ensuring that decisioning is grounded in competitive reality, differentiated by Recursion OS insights, and built to move with urgency for patient benefit.
Company info
- As an Executive Director, Asset Team Lead, you will work across the asset portfolio, operating as a senior strategic partner to leaders in Clinical Development, Discovery, ClinTech, Platform and BD.
- We break traditional silos, leveraging AI-powered platforms across data analysis, predictive modeling, RWE integration and patient stratification, all with the goal of optimizing asset positioning for the greatest benefit to patients.
- The Experience You'll Need
- Experience leveraging computational approaches and data-driven platforms to sharpen asset strategy and clinical decision-making
- Strong financial acumen; able to engage credibly on cross-functional resourcing, asset valuation, and portfolio trade-offs
- Working Location & Compensation:
- In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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