Recursion Pharmaceuticals

Recursion Pharmaceuticals

Associate Director, Computational Biology – Early Discovery

Salt Lake City, Utah · Director

Sponsorship not specified$200k-$221kDetected 84 days ago
PythonMachine LearningData AnalysisData VisualizationA/B TestingStakeholder ManagementRecruitingBioinformaticsCRISPRLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringPublic Speaking

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About the role

  • The Impact You'll Make As an Associate Director within Recursion's early discovery team, you will be at the forefront of reimagining drug discovery from first principles.
  • You will act as a "player-coach," balancing direct technical contribution with the mentorship and strategic leadership of a high-performing team.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of data scientists and computational biologists, fostering a culture of scientific rigor, bold experimentation, delivery, and continuous professional growth.
  • Present data analysis to external decision makers and stakeholders in a clear and compelling way that drives toward getting medicines to patients.
  • A track record of managing and developing direct reports within a scientific or technical environment
  • Excellent cross-functional communication skills, including an ability to explain complex scientific concepts to a variety of audiences using a combination of plots, documents, and presentations
  • Including your own.
  • You will lead a team of world-class computational biologists focused on identifying and advancing the next generation of oncology targets and therapeutics to fill our internal pipeline.
  • you will partner with biologists, data scientists, platform and data engineers, and translational experts to develop and scale methods for target discovery in oncology and immunological diseases.
  • 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

  • Strong understanding of patient genetics and druggability of disease relevant pathways
  • The ideal candidate has strong stakeholder management, technical communication, and 3+ years biotech or pharma experience in early drug discovery.

Nice to have

  • Previous exposure to translational and/or clinical development programs to guide selection of relevant models for target validation experiments
  • Employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time.
  • The Values We Hope You Share:
  • We act boldly with integrity.
  • 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.

Compensation

  • Based on the skills, experience, and qualifications needed for this role, the estimated annual base salary range is: $200,000-$220,500.
  • In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Company info

  • Our group is a bold, agile, diverse collective of computational drug discovery scientists deeply focused on the singular goal of bringing new therapeutics into the clinic at an accelerated pace.
  • Our expertise spans precision oncology, I&I (immunology and inflammation), and neuroscience and we focus on advancing novel, targeted therapies for these disease areas.
  • We partner closely with other functions to design and execute impactful and decisional data analyses for new targets and drug programs and are responsible for data strategy across the portfolio.
  • The Experience You'll Need
  • PhD in a relevant field (computational biology, bioinformatics, cancer biology, immuno-oncology, etc.) with a very strong computational focus and 3+ years of experience in biotech or pharma industry OR MS in a relevant field and 5+ years of experience in biotech or pharma industry solving fundamental problems in early drug discovery
  • Domain expertise in oncology or immunological diseases
  • Experience applying computational methods (including probabilistic, statistical, and/or machine learning techniques) to analyze and integrate complex biological and/or human clinical data in a high level programming language such as Python or R
  • Exceptional data visualization skills
  • Your mission is to integrate Recursion's massive datasets-phenomics, transcriptomics, genomics, proteomics-to nominate novel targets, validate disease biology, and define the precision oncology strategies to advance our most promising therapeutic targets into full-fledged drug discovery programs.

Equal opportunity

  • Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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