Associate General Counsel, Business Development
Associate General Counsel, Business Development
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Job Description
Your work will change lives. Including your own.
The Impact Youll Make
You will drive key partnerships and transactions that advance Recursions mission to decode biology to radically improve lives. These partnerships and ongoing support of key alliances will ensure Recursion continues to set the bar in significant collaborations within the Techbio industry.
In this role you will:
- Help to craft winwin partnerships that accelerate Recursions mission driving the company forward and setting new industry standards
- Partner with the Business Development team to align to business priorities while protecting the companys interests
- Lead the execution of term sheets and definitive agreements across research collaborations technology licensing asset licensing and other complex transactions; conducting diligence reviewing interpreting and negotiating terms in strategic alignment with the Business Development leadership and broader Company goals
- Support preexisting collaborations in concert with alliance management through ongoing contract interpretation; drafting amendments as needed; advising on contract compliance including those provisions relating to data licenses and governance among partnerships
- Facilitate internal contract approval and stakeholder negotiation to resolve complex issues and assist in disputes (escalating complex legal and factual issues to the appropriate internal parties educating stakeholders on contract term implications). Communicate with business units to ensure all obligations are being met (e.g. milestones deliverables invoicing etc.).
- Work with Intellectual Property to support its strategic IP filing strategy prosecution and maintenance as it pertains to business development
- Serve as a subject matter authority on business development and alliance management matters within the Law Department and collaborate with other legal functions as needed (e.g. Corporate Governance Intellectual Property Compliance Data Privacy and Governance Litigation and Products/Regulatory Law group)
The Team Youll Join
You will join a highfunctioning team of expert lawyers each working to advance the mission of Recursion. While the legal team members each have defined areas of expertise and support they regularly connect to support each other in work and communication as well as professional development. Your role specifically will partner collaboratively with the Business Development team which includes Alliance Management. Both groups operate at a fastpace with open lines of communication and transparent strategic imperatives.
The Experience Youll Need
- Significant experience supporting a broad corporate practice including licensing contracting and other relevant transactional experience in the US life sciences sector at a reputable law firm and preferably also within an inhouse legal environment
- Juris Doctor with active bar membership
- Inhouse experience at a large pharmaceutical or public biotech company is a plus
- Experience or demonstrated interest in the application of technology or AI in life sciences a plus
- A member in good standing of at least one state bar with the ability to practice law in Utah as inhouse counsel
- Substantial experience and demonstrated technical excellence in general corporate matters issue spotting and resolution analytical thinking and steering crossfunctional groups to consensus including through unique urgent situations where little precedent or guidance exists
- The ability to provide timely wellinformed practical riskbased advice that facilitates business decisionmaking in alignment with strategic objectives
- Attention to detail with excellent communication analytical and project management abilities
- Accountable dependable and selfmotivated for continuous improvement of company templates policies and processes
- Able to thrive in a fastpaced earlystage company environment with the ability to work independently and apply good business and legal judgment in assessing compliance issues
- Aptitude for maintaining strong working crossfunctional relationships
- Practical creative and proactive problemsolving skills
Working Location & Compensation:
This position is based at our office located in Salt Lake City or New York preferably. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time per week in office.
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:
$306400 $376200 (New York City)
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 (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 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 in Salt Lake City where it is a founding member of BioHive the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in Toronto Montral New York London Oxford area and the San Francisco Bay area. Learn more at or connect onX (formerly Twitter)andLinkedIn.
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 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.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full Time
