Global Head, Oncology Development

Global Head, Oncology Development

Recursion is seeking an experienced, collaborative, and strategic oncology executive to champion the use of advanced computational approaches in clinical development and help redefine traditional paradigms of oncology drug development. In this role, you will help us realize a future-oriented, technology-driven vision for the oncology portfolio by defining and executing our oncology strategy and ensuring that resources are applied in alignment with these strategic priorities.

In This Role You Will :

• Provide significant input on clinical plans, trial design, clinical trial execution, medical governance, at a program level, and ensure appropriate and adequate clinical resourcing.
• Define disease area strategies and priorities, ensure patient focus and robust evidence package to support successful filings, approvals and commercialization and patient access. Accountable for the ethical conduct of studies in the oncology portfolio.
• Operate as a single point of accountability for medical governance at the clinical level. Ensure adequate clinical oversight of clinical research initiatives and provide a global and objective viewpoint of safety and efficacy by cultivating and sustaining a culture of openness and transparency with patient wellbeing as the key driver in decision-making.
• Evaluate, integrate, and scale AI / ML tools to optimize trial design, enhance patient recruitment strategies, and drive real-time data analysis. Foster a deep partnership with data science teams to seamlessly embed real-world evidence, big data, and advanced analytics into clinical decision-making, ensuring smarter, faster, and more adaptive clinical development.
• Responsible for drafting and reviewing medical aspects of core study and regulatory documents (i.e., protocols, investigator brochures, INDs, briefing documents, etc.).
• Manage and maintain strong, effective relationships with key external stakeholders and partners (i.e., Key Opinion Leaders and investigators, consultants, patient advocacy groups and other external clinical trial participants) to ensure that the primary goals of the clinical development programs are met.
• Responsible for exploring opportunities for simplification, ensuring that this area is as effective and as efficient as possible to get drugs to patients faster.

The Team You'll Join

As Global Head, Oncology Development, you'll report directly to the Chief Medical Officer and will be a key member of our leadership team. The Development Team is an empowered, execution-minded group of clinical development professionals responsible for translating and industrializing Recursion's innovative science to patients. Our team leverages cutting-edge clinical technology to accelerate drug development, optimize trial design, and enhance patient outcomes. From deploying AI-powered platforms for data analysis and predictive modeling to integrating real-world evidence and biomarker discovery tools, we ensure our clinical programs are both efficient and precise.

The Experience You'll Need

Working Location :

This position is ideally based at our office located in New York City. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time in the office.

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 $344,300 to $413,600 (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.