Vice President, Medical Affairs

At Recursion we are decoding biology to radically improve lives. As Vice President Medical Affairs you will help shape how Recursion translates breakthrough science clinical data real-world evidence and AI-enabled insights into meaningful impact for patients clinicians investigators and health systems.

You will build and lead the Medical Affairs strategy across Recursions advancing clinical portfolio with an initial focus on programs in areas of significant unmet need including oncology rare disease immunology and other priority therapeutic areas. This is a high-impact cross-functional leadership role for a strategic medical affairs leader who can operate from early development through launch readiness bring the external medical voice into portfolio decisions and establish scalable capabilities for scientific engagement evidence generation medical communications and medical excellence.

• Develop and lead integrated Medical Affairs strategies for priority assets including scientific narrative evidence gaps stakeholder engagement publication strategy medical education advisory boards field medical planning and launch readiness.
• Provide Medical Affairs support on cross-functional asset teams partnering with Clinical Development Regulatory Affairs Development Sciences HEOR/RWE Biostatistics Clinical Operations Portfolio Strategy Patient Advocacy Communications Legal/Compliance and Business Development where appropriate.
• Build evidence-generation plans that support asset differentiation patient benefit clinical adoption and value demonstration including real-world evidence HEOR epidemiology natural history burden of disease treatment patterns and outcomes-focused studies.
• Translate external insights from healthcare professionals investigators patient communities payers health systems and scientific leaders into actionable recommendations for development strategy trial design endpoints education needs and evidence priorities.
• Lead scientific engagement strategy with key opinion leaders digital opinion leaders investigators cooperative groups patient advocacy organizations professional societies and other external stakeholders through compliant high-quality scientific exchange.
• Lead congress and conference strategy for priority programs including planning and execution for major scientific meetings such as ASCO ESMO AACR AAN and other relevant medical congresses; partner cross-functionally on abstracts presentations scientific narratives medical booths KOL engagement and internal preparation.
• Partner with Recursions data science platform and Decision Science teams to explore responsible use of AI-enabled approaches for medical insights evidence synthesis stakeholder mapping scientific communication and measurement of medical impact.
• Establish the medical communication strategy for assigned assets including publications congress abstracts and presentations lexicon scientific platform FAQs medical information content and internal scientific training.
• As the portfolio matures design and build a structured scalable Medical Affairs organization including fit-for-purpose capabilities across medical strategy field medical medical communications medical information evidence generation congress planning insights and medical excellence.
• Establish governance operating rhythms vendor partnerships performance metrics and compliant processes that enable Medical Affairs to support Recursions growth from clinical-stage development through potential launch readiness.

You will join Recursions Clinical Development organization reporting to the Chief Medical Officer. The Clinical Development team is an empowered execution-minded group responsible for translating Recursions innovative science into medicines for patients.

You will work closely with leaders across Development Regulatory Development Sciences Clinical Operations Data Science Biology Chemistry Portfolio Strategy Communications Legal/Compliance and future commercialization functions. Together you will help ensure Recursions clinical programs are informed by robust evidence external medical insight patient need and the full potential of the RecursionOS.

• Advanced clinical or scientific degree required; MD DO PharmD PhD or equivalent advanced degree strongly preferred
• 15 years of biotech or pharmaceutical industry experience including significant leadership experience in Medical Affairs
• Experience building and leading Medical Affairs strategy for clinical-stage or launch-stage assets ideally in oncology rare disease immunology or other specialty therapeutic areas.
• Proven ability to lead integrated evidence planning including RWE HEOR epidemiology burden-of-disease natural history treatment-pattern outcomes and value-focused studies
• Strong understanding of drug development from early clinical development through launch readiness and lifecycle planning including how Medical Affairs contributes to trial design endpoint strategy external engagement publications and evidence generation.
• Demonstrated success in engaging KOLs investigators patient advocacy organizations professional societies payers/HTA stakeholders and other external experts through compliant scientific exchange.
• Experience developing scientific platforms publication plans congress strategies advisory boards medical education initiatives and medical information resources.
• Strong working knowledge of relevant compliance expectations including scientific exchange medical review publication practices advisory board governance and interactions with healthcare professionals across the US & globally

Working Location & Compensation:

This is a fully remote opportunity with occasional travel requirements. Travel may be necessary from time to time to support collaboration team events customer meetings or other business needs.

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:

• New York City Boston & San Francisco Bay Area(s): $358930$449240
• Salt Lake City & all other U.S. locations: $326300$408400

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.