Executive Director, Asset Project Leadership

Your work will change lives. Including your own. The Impact You’ll Make At Recursion, our mission is to industrialize and transform the development of medicines by integrating data-driven insights and advanced analytics throughout the entire development lifecycle. As Executive Director, Asset Project Leadership, you will play a pivotal role ensuring advanced computational approaches and proprietary Recursion advantages are leveraged across the portfolio continuum, redefining traditional paradigms of drug development. As an asset project leader, you will work closely with functional lines to help craft, optimize and execute asset strategy, leveraging Recursion OS and Clin.Tech. insights to enhance program rigor and ultimately patient benefit. 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. In this role, you will: Collaborate with functional leads across the portfolio to ensure seamless alignment, communication and execution of data-driven strategy from preclinical discovery through clinical development Drive and enable a culture of accountability, ownership and innovation aimed at delivering prioritized medicines to patient populations in need. Partner with key stakeholders including finance and functional line leadership to ensure project resourcing is strategically prioritized and deployed for the most impactful programs & work streams. Establish and refine processes that maximally leverage Recursion OS and ClinTech insights for advancement of the internal/external drug discovery and development portfolios Propagate the Recursion mindset of radically changing lives by constantly seeking transformative improvements in how we advance innovative concepts for clinical benefit. The Team You’ll Join As Executive Director, Asset Project Leadership, you will work within the Development team, reporting directly to the Global Head, Project Leadership. 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 A PhD in life sciences or related scientific discipline with deep expertise in drug discovery & development 10+ years of biotech/pharmaceutical industry experience with a proven track record of scientific asset project leadership, progressing drug discovery/development programs through stage-gates using data-driven decision making. Expertise in cross-functional drug development and in-depth experience leveraging computational approaches to optimize assets. Deep technical expertise in oncology, strength in additional therapeutic areas such as rare disease and immunology/inflammation a bonus. Strong resource management and financial acumen Working Location & Compensation: This is an office-based, hybrid role in our New York City offices. Employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time. At 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: $297,000–$356,400 . In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and a comprehensive benefits package. #LI-EP1 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 d