Executive Director of Clinical Development (Rare Disease)
Recursion Pharma, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84193
Executive Director of Clinical Development (Rare Disease)
New York, New York; Salt Lake City, Utah
Your work will change lives. Including your own. The Impact You’ll Make
Recursion is at the forefront of reimagining drug discovery through the integration of automated cell biology, high-dimensional and diverse data sets, and sophisticated analytics. You will lead program(s) across our growing pipeline of novel small molecule therapeutics in cancer while leveraging your strong track record of advancing precision medicines in Rare Diseases from bench to POC clinical trials with scientific rigor and thorough understanding of target and disease biology.
In this role, you will:
Oversee
the development of first-in-class/first-in-disease molecules in precision rare disease
Generate
and continually refine the integrated clinical development strategy for Recursion’s rare disease medicine portfolio from IND to POC
Contribute
to regulatory submissions and participate in regulatory agency meetings
Utilize
strong therapeutic area expertise to enhance innovation and efficiency in clinical trial design and execution
Deliver
medical, disease-specific, and development perspective into specific research programs or broader research initiatives
Provide
scientific and medical expertise for business development assessments and due diligences
The Team You’ll Join
As an Executive Director of Clinical Development you will report directly to the VP of Clinical Development. The Development Team is an empowered, execution-minded group of drug development professionals responsible for translating Recursion’s innovative science to patients through clinical development activities.
The Experience You’ll Need
Medical Degree required and MD/PhD preferred
5+ years of experience developing, executing and analyzing Phase 1/2 rare disease trials and preferably within a biotech or pharmaceutical company
Deep knowledge and understanding of rare and genetic diseases; precision drug development paradigms, clinical pharmacology with technical and regulatory approaches
Strong networks and connections to external experts and key opinion leaders. Ability to form effective collaborations with external scientific community, academia and CROs
Effective skills directed toward driving collaboration, achieving results, influencing, and resolving conflicts across internal and external stakeholders-
Highly motivated, decisive, and results-oriented individual who is proactive, resourceful, and efficient with the flexibility and creativity to excel in and contribute to a rapidly growing drug discovery and development company
Working Location & Compensation:
This position is based at our office located in
New York City or Salt Lake City.
Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time in the office. Relocation support can be provided for this role.
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 $316,800 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:
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 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. We experiment, test, and refine, embracing iteration over perfection.
We move with urgency because patients are waiting.
Speed isn’t about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
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.
We 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.
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.
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, Montréal, New York, London, Oxford area, and the San Francisco Bay area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.
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.
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Your work will change lives. Including your own. The Impact You’ll Make
Recursion is at the forefront of reimagining drug discovery through the integration of automated cell biology, high-dimensional and diverse data sets, and sophisticated analytics. You will lead program(s) across our growing pipeline of novel small molecule therapeutics in cancer while leveraging your strong track record of advancing precision medicines in Rare Diseases from bench to POC clinical trials with scientific rigor and thorough understanding of target and disease biology.
In this role, you will:
Oversee
the development of first-in-class/first-in-disease molecules in precision rare disease
Generate
and continually refine the integrated clinical development strategy for Recursion’s rare disease medicine portfolio from IND to POC
Contribute
to regulatory submissions and participate in regulatory agency meetings
Utilize
strong therapeutic area expertise to enhance innovation and efficiency in clinical trial design and execution
Deliver
medical, disease-specific, and development perspective into specific research programs or broader research initiatives
Provide
scientific and medical expertise for business development assessments and due diligences
The Team You’ll Join
As an Executive Director of Clinical Development you will report directly to the VP of Clinical Development. The Development Team is an empowered, execution-minded group of drug development professionals responsible for translating Recursion’s innovative science to patients through clinical development activities.
The Experience You’ll Need
Medical Degree required and MD/PhD preferred
5+ years of experience developing, executing and analyzing Phase 1/2 rare disease trials and preferably within a biotech or pharmaceutical company
Deep knowledge and understanding of rare and genetic diseases; precision drug development paradigms, clinical pharmacology with technical and regulatory approaches
Strong networks and connections to external experts and key opinion leaders. Ability to form effective collaborations with external scientific community, academia and CROs
Effective skills directed toward driving collaboration, achieving results, influencing, and resolving conflicts across internal and external stakeholders-
Highly motivated, decisive, and results-oriented individual who is proactive, resourceful, and efficient with the flexibility and creativity to excel in and contribute to a rapidly growing drug discovery and development company
Working Location & Compensation:
This position is based at our office located in
New York City or Salt Lake City.
Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time in the office. Relocation support can be provided for this role.
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 $316,800 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:
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 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. We experiment, test, and refine, embracing iteration over perfection.
We move with urgency because patients are waiting.
Speed isn’t about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
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.
We 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.
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.
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, Montréal, New York, London, Oxford area, and the San Francisco Bay area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.
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.
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