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Including your own. \n\nThe Impact You’ll Make\nAs an Associate Director within Recursion’s early discovery team, you will be at the forefront of reimagining drug discovery from first principles. 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 act as a \"player-coach,\" balancing direct technical contribution with the mentorship and strategic leadership of a high-performing team. 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.\nThis is a highly collaborative role: 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. The ideal candidate has strong stakeholder management, technical communication, and 3+ years biotech or pharma experience in early drug discovery. \nIn this role, you will:\nDrive Target Discovery: Evaluate the molecular evidence for target nomination and validation, leveraging Recursion’s platform to identify novel vulnerabilities in disease biology\nLead and mentor a team of data scientists and computational biologists, fostering a culture of scientific rigor, bold experimentation, delivery, and continuous professional growth. \nPilot novel methods for target discovery, disease biology validation, and early patient population hypotheses to send programs into nomination cascades\nDefine internal criteria for target data packages and early patient population strategy\nConnect your team’s innovative analysis methods to platform and engineering teams so that we solve the current project and accelerate future ones\nCollaborate cross-functionally: Partner with biologists, medicinal chemists, translational, and clinical leads to build compelling data packages that drive program milestones and portfolio investment decisions. \nPresent data analysis to external decision makers and stakeholders in a clear and compelling way that drives toward getting medicines to patients.\nThe Team You’ll Join \nOur 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. \nThe Experience You’ll Need\nPhD 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\nDomain expertise in oncology or immunological diseases\nStrong understanding of patient genetics and druggability of disease relevant pathways\nExperience 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\nExceptional data visualization skills\nA track record of managing and developing direct reports within a scientific or technical environment\nExcellent 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\nNice To Have:\nExperience building a target discovery engine in oncology or immunological diseases\nExperience designing high-throughput screens with CRISPR or small molecule perturbations to validate therapeutic hypotheses\nPrevious exposure to translational and/or clinical development programs to guide selection of relevant models for target validation experiments\nWorking Location & Compensation:\nThis is an office-based, hybrid position at our US headquarters located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time.\nAt Recursion, we believe that every employee should be compensated fairly. 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.\nThe Values We Hope You Share:\nWe 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. \nWe care deeply and engage directly. Caring means holding a deep sense of responsibility and respect - showing up, speaking honestly, and taking action.\nWe learn actively and adapt rapidly. Progress comes from doing. We experiment, test, and refine, embracing iteration over perfection.\nWe move with urgency because patients are waiting. Speed isn’t about rushing but about moving the needle every day.\nWe take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability, we enable trust and autonomy-leaders take accountability for decisive action, and teams own outcomes together. \nWe 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.\nOur 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.\nMore About Recursion\nRecursion (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.\nRecursion’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.\nRecursion 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. \nAccommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.\n\nRecursion leverages AI in our hiring process. We use Greenhouse's Talent Matching AI technology feature to help review applications against the skills and experience we've identified as important for this role. It analyzes your resume and application responses to assess how closely your qualifications match our criteria - but all decisions are made by our human recruiters and hiring managers, including whether to move to the next phase of review. Talent Matching does not automatically advance or reject any candidate. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have been informed about and consent to this use of the Talent Matching tool in our review process. Please refer to our Recursion Privacy Policy at https://www.recursion.com/privacy-notice/ for more information about our processing of personal data and your rights. \nRecruitment & 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. 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