People Operations Generalist (Fixed Term Contract 8 Months)

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact Youll Make

As a People Operations Generalist at Recursion you will play a critical role in creating a seamless people-centered employee experience that supports our mission to radically accelerate drug discovery and delivery. Based in Salt Lake City you will be a key operational partner to employees and the People Team ensuring our core people processes systems and programs run smoothly accurately and at scale.

This role is for you if you thrive at the intersection of people systems process and emerging technologyand are motivated by building the operational backbone that enables high-performing teams. The work will be varied fast-paced and highly collaborative. Your contributions will directly impact how employees experience Recursion from day one and beyond helping us scale thoughtfully while staying true to our culture.

Please Note: This is a fixed-term contract for 8 months. You will be eligible for Recursion benefits with the exception of equity and bonus.

In This Role You Will

• Serve as one of our primary administrators of Bob (HiBob) HRIS ensuring data accuracy system integrity and continuous improvement of people processes and configurations
• Manage and execute core employee lifecycle processes including onboarding offboarding job changes and employee data updates
• Lead and continuously improve new hire orientation partnering closely with the People Team and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver a welcoming informative and engaging experience
• Act as a first point of contact for employee questions related to people programs policies systems and general People Operations support
• Partner with Payroll Benefits IT and Finance to ensure smooth coordination across people-related processes and deadlines
• Support compliance and documentation needs including audits reporting and maintenance of employee records
• Leverage people data HRIS reporting and AI-enabled tools to support decision-making and identify opportunities to improve employee experience and operational efficiency
• Understand how to leverage and implement AI to reduce manual work across People Operations including:
• Automating and streamlining onboarding and employee lifecycle workflows
• Improving HiBob configuration data quality and self-service experiences
• Supporting payroll and benefits administration through process automation and validation
• Assisting with audit preparation documentation and reporting accuracy
• Contribute to People Team projects and initiatives across areas such as engagement performance processes benefits administration and process documentation

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:

• 36 years of experience in People Operations HR Operations or a similar role in a fast-growing or complex organization
• Hands-on experience administering an HRIS with HiBob (Bob) strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT Gemini or similar) to streamline workflows reduce manual effort and improve accuracy across People Operations processes
• Experience supporting onboarding and new hire orientation programs
• Strong attention to detail and comfort managing confidential employee data
• Working knowledge of U.S. HR practices and compliance requirements
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic fast-paced environment
• A service-oriented mindset with strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Comfort partnering cross-functionally and supporting employees at all levels
• Experience in biotech tech or research-driven environments is a plus

Working Location:

This is an office-based hybrid position at our US headquarters located in Salt Lake City Utah. Employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time.

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 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 worlds 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 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.