Associate Director of Drug Development, Program Management

Your Work Will Change Lives. Including Your Own.

The Impact You’ll Make

As the Associate Director of Drug Development, Program Management at Recursion, you will be a key leader in developing and driving the execution of late preclinical to clinical phase assets. You will make significant contributions toward execution of the clinical development portfolio and play a key role in strategic planning by working cross-functionally to plan, organize, and risk mitigate our preclinical & clinical programs, ensuring on-time execution of asset milestones in alignment with corporate goals. 

In This Role, You Will:

• Drive development planning for assigned assets in partnership with the program lead and cross-functional subject matter experts (SMEs) from preclinical to late-stage clinical development.
• Facilitate program team meetings & governance, driving agenda and deck development, tracking outcomes (decisions, actions) and ensuring deliverables.
• Develop and maintain program-level plans, timelines, base case/upside scenarios, accounting for critical path activities and all interdependencies.
• Prepare and maintain program dashboards, updates, and presentations for leadership and governance committees.
• Proactively identify, communicate, and risk plan for program-level risks.
• Work with SMEs to define key deliverables and success metrics.
• Maintain alignment among team members and stakeholders by fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.
• Ensure accountability across teams, timely delivery of high-quality work aligned with corporate strategy.
• Identify opportunities to streamline program management processes and drive efficiencies.
• Champion best practices for program management and leverage AI-based and other approaches to ensure continuous improvement of tools, templates, and methodologies within the program management function.

The Team You’Ll Join:

Reporting to the Director of Drug Development, Program Management, you will be an essential member of the Drug Development Program management team.The Team is an empowered, execution-minded group of professionals whose role is at the interface of strategy and operations and is central to the success of the drug development portfolio.

The Experience You’ll Need

• BS in life sciences, pharmacy, or a related field preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in drug development within the biotech or pharmaceutical industry, including 3+ years in program management.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects in a matrix environment with expertise in managing clinical development programs, including pre-IND stage assets.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory and clinical development pathways, including IND/CTA and NDA/BLA/MAA submissions.
• Exceptional organizational, communication, and leadership skills.
• Experience managing global drug development programs across multiple therapeutic areas or modalities.
• Familiarity with drug development finance and portfolio management.

Key Competencies:

• Strategic thinker with exceptional problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Strong ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks in a dynamic environment.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and solutions-focused approach to managing challenges.
• Outstanding interpersonal and influencing skills to build relationships at all levels of the organization.

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an office-based, hybrid role in either our Salt Lake City or New York City office. 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 skill and level of experience required for this role, the estimated current annual base range for this role is $187,200 to $232,000 (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. 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, 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.

Recruitment & 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. Our Team Will Communicate Directly With Candidates Who Are Not Represented By An Agent Or Intermediary Unless Otherwise Agreed To Prior To Interviewing For The Job.