Executive Director People Business Partnering

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact Youll Make:

As the Executive Director People Business Partnering you will be a strategic advisor to Recursions scientific and technical leadership helping progress ambitious business goals within our unique operating environment and culture. Your insights people and organizational expertise and keen judgement will support leadership teams as they create the conditions for their teams to do their best work and the operating structures to enable it. You will bring candor care and courage to bear as you design talent strategies and organizational interventions to accelerate delivery and progress.

As a leader within our People Team you will be a trusted partner to designated business units (e.g. R&D) driving initiatives that improve organizational effectiveness and cultivate a highperformance culture across our global teams in the United States Canada and the United Kingdom. You will manage and mentor a team of People Business Partners guiding them in delivering strategic People support.

This role is for you if you are deeply dissatisfied with the time it currently takes to discover and deliver lifesaving therapies for patients and are motivated to dedicate your time energy and talents to experimenting with a new approach. It will be hard fastpaced and a bit chaotic but oh so rewarding.

In This Role You Will:

• Be a Strategic Advisor: Serve as an integrated part of the business working closely with and advising senior leaders to accomplish broader strategic objectives. Partner with crossfunctional leaders to understand and enhance team development and support.
• Drive Business Goals through People Initiatives: Partner with leadership to ensure that our people programs directly support the achievement of critical business objectives translating strategic initiatives into actionable people plans.
• Empower Leaders and Managers: Provide expert coaching and guidance to managers on performance management compensation strategies and fostering strong team relationships. Equip managers to be effective people leaders cultivating a culture of high performance and continuous development.
• Influence Organizational Dynamics: Partner with teams and leaders in the planning and implementation of workforce strategies and thoughtful changes in organizational structure or processes to support rapid growth while driving organizational effectiveness and seamless change management.
• Be an Excellent Manager: Lead the global People Business Partner function including setting strategy and team priorities building strong team culture cohesion and collaboration and developing team members.
• Provide cohesive support: Partner with other People Teams (People Ops Talent Acquisition Total Rewards) and functional teams (Finance IT Comms etc. to align organizational objectives and provide seamless integrated support for leaders and teams.
• Explore and learn continuously: Expand teams knowledge of novel approaches experiments and best practices from other contexts and industries in order to expand internal thinking and build compelling solutions.

The Team You Will Join:

The People Team is the foundation of our companys workforce creating the conditions to enable and sustain high performing teams and helping employees do the best work of their careers. We are talent scouts and partners creating experiences and outcomes that support our employees and drive business success. We focus on scalable solutions that add value across geographies while providing individual advisory partnership and support where it matters most. With a people data approach we ensure Recursion has the people culture and operating dynamics to accelerate drug discovery and get medicines to patients faster.

The Experience Youll Need:

• 10 years of progressive HR experience partnering with executive leadership in life sciences pharma biotech or techenabled fastpaced industries
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate complex business objectives into strategic talent and organizational actions.
• Experience managing and developing teams both directly and indirectly.
• Honed judgement skills to be able to advise on and facilitate complex decisionmaking in fastpaced environments.
• Ability to diagnose team and leadership capabilities and to apply OD concepts and models such as team effectiveness change management communication styles facilitation and leadership development.
• Passion for developing others and creating conditions for exceptional performance and employee retention.
• Strong networking and trusted relationship building skills with an ability to influence without authority and challenge senior leaders to create the best outcome across different perspectives.
• Analytical and problemsolving skills including the ability to diagnose root causes and use insights to inform decisionmaking.
• Strong understanding of HR concepts policies and initiatives across domains (e.g. onboarding learning and development compliance employee relations engagement and retention talent management etc.

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an officebased hybrid position at our US headquarters located in Salt Lake City UT. 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 $225000 to $262900 (USD). You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

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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 isnt about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
• We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability we enable trust and autonomyleaders take accountability for decisive action and teams own outcomes together.
• We are One Recursion. True crossfunctional 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 is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the worlds largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machinelearning 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 inSalt Lake City where it is a founding member ofBioHive the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London Toronto Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at or connect onX(formerly Twitter) andLinkedIn.

Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. 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.

Recursion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. 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 Recursions 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.