Executive Director, Translational Biology

Executive Director, Translational Biology

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You'll Make

Recursion is looking for a highly collaborative, strategic, and experienced translational biology leader to guide a future-driven, technology-oriented approach to robust preclinical data packages. We are focused on identifying and validating innovative drugs with definitive response rates in the clinic. To achieve this goal, we must quickly understand which molecules will be effective for specific patient populations. Preclinically, this can be achieved by using biological model systems and endpoints with high clinical predictive power. Clinically, we'll develop high-fidelity biomarkers (patient enrichment, PD, tox, surrogate endpoints, etc.) to enable optimal, early decision-making, minimize development timelines, and maximize the success of clinical assets.

You will establish and manage translational strategies for preclinical data generation and clinical biomarker programs. This requires close collaboration with development, regulatory, and business teams. You will also seek out and leverage external opportunities to enhance internal approaches, ensuring the organization maintains a high-performance culture and shares learnings across R&D.

In this role, you will :

• Enable Recursion to be a leader in precision medicine by delivering excellence in translational research through value generation by developing the preclinical data package to generate impactful clinical development programs
• Partner with AI and machine learning experts to develop and leverage state-of-the-art predictive and computational tools to expedite translational models and data sets. Foster a deep partnership with data science teams to align real-world evidence, big data / -Omics and advanced analytics into preclinical decision-making and program development
• Collaborate with project teams and the clinical biomarker team to identify and generate a robust biomarker strategy to support programs entering the clinic.
• Shape and implement the Recursion preclinical translational strategy, comprising model system development and validation, and translational research for key internal and partnered assets.
• Provide senior scientific, strategic, and people leadership to a team of high-potential scientists. Build a culture of scientific excellence and innovation, strategic focus, and collaboration. Develop and enable talent to attain their full potential.
• Oversee the development of clinically relevant translational models, while managing multiple projects and workstreams, and assessing workload, timelines, and budgets to ensure delivery

The Team You'll Join

This role will operate in collaboration with Development, Regulatory and BD&L establish translational strategies comprising preclinical data generation and clinical biomarker programs at the pipeline and project level.

The Experience You'll Need

Working Location :

This is an office-based, hybrid role in our Salt Lake City / New York City office. Employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time. This role requires interaction with teams in Salt Lake City, New York, Oxford, and London, and will require some travel.

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 $190,300 - $246,400 (USD). 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 :

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, Montral, New York, London, Oxford area, and the San Francisco Bay area.

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.