Associate Director, Computational Biology – Early Discovery

The Impact Youll Make

As an Associate Director within Recursions early discovery team you will be at the forefront of reimagining drug discovery from first principles. You will lead a team of world-class computational biologists focused on identifying and advancing the next generation of oncology targets and therapeutics to fill our internal pipeline. You will act as a player-coach balancing direct technical contribution with the mentorship and strategic leadership of a high-performing team. Your mission is to integrate Recursions massive datasetsphenomics transcriptomics genomics proteomicsto nominate novel targets validate disease biology and define the precision oncology strategies to advance our most promising therapeutic targets into full-fledged drug discovery programs.

This is a highly collaborative role: you will partner with biologists data scientists platform and data engineers and translational experts to develop and scale methods for target discovery in oncology and immunological diseases. The ideal candidate has strong stakeholder management technical communication and 3 years biotech or pharma experience in early drug discovery.

In this role you will:

• Drive Target Discovery: Evaluate the molecular evidence for target nomination and validation leveraging Recursions platform to identify novel vulnerabilities in disease biology
• Lead and mentor a team of data scientists and computational biologists fostering a culture of scientific rigor bold experimentation delivery and continuous professional growth.
• Pilot novel methods for target discovery disease biology validation and early patient population hypotheses to send programs into nomination cascades
• Define internal criteria for target data packages and early patient population strategy
• Connect your teams innovative analysis methods to platform and engineering teams so that we solve the current project and accelerate future ones
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with biologists medicinal chemists translational and clinical leads to build compelling data packages that drive program milestones and portfolio investment decisions.
• Present data analysis to external decision makers and stakeholders in a clear and compelling way that drives toward getting medicines to patients.

The Team Youll Join

Our group is a bold agile diverse collective of computational drug discovery scientists deeply focused on the singular goal of bringing new therapeutics into the clinic at an accelerated pace. Our expertise spans precision oncology I&I (immunology and inflammation) and neuroscience and we focus on advancing novel targeted therapies for these disease areas. We partner closely with other functions to design and execute impactful and decisional data analyses for new targets and drug programs and are responsible for data strategy across the portfolio.

The Experience Youll Need

• PhD in a relevant field (computational biology bioinformatics cancer biology immuno-oncology etc.) with a very strong computational focus and 3 years of experience in biotech or pharma industry OR MS in a relevant field and 5 years of experience in biotech or pharma industry solving fundamental problems in early drug discovery
• Domain expertise in oncology or immunological diseases
• Strong understanding of patient genetics and druggability of disease relevant pathways
• Experience applying computational methods (including probabilistic statistical and/or machine learning techniques) to analyze and integrate complex biological and/or human clinical data in a high level programming language such as Python or R
• Exceptional data visualization skills
• A track record of managing and developing direct reports within a scientific or technical environment
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills including an ability to explain complex scientific concepts to a variety of audiences using a combination of plots documents and presentations

Nice To Have:

• Experience building a target discovery engine in oncology or immunological diseases
• Experience designing high-throughput screens with CRISPR or small molecule perturbations to validate therapeutic hypotheses
• Previous exposure to translational and/or clinical development programs to guide selection of relevant models for target validation experiments

Working Location & Compensation:

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.

At Recursion we believe that every employee should be compensated fairly. Based on the skills experience and qualifications needed for this role the estimated annual base salary range is:$200000$220500.In addition to base salary this role is eligible for an annual bonus equity compensation and 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 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 decoding biology to radically improve lives. Recursion is advancing a portfolio of differentiated investigational medicines across its wholly owned and partnered pipeline in oncology rare disease neuroscience immunology and other therapeutic areas with significant unmet need. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS an AI-native end-to-end drug discovery and development platform integrating biology chemistry and clinical development into a unified intelligence system. Powered by proprietary multimodal data purpose-built AI models and bilingual teams fluent in both science and AI the Recursion OS is designed to translate complex science into medicines that matter faster better and at scale for patients who are waiting.

Recursions platform infrastructure is anchored in Salt Lake City Utah and Milton Park Oxfordshire where its automated biology and chemistry laboratories generate proprietary data at industrial scale. Recursion also maintains offices in New York Montréal and London three global hubs for talent and leadership at the intersection of AI and scientific innovation. Learn more at or connect on X 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.