Job Description

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make:

Recursion is currently seeking a seasoned leader to join our team as Vice President, Real World Experience. This role will lead RWE generation across the Recursion portfolio. The role will be responsible for building a world-class team of statisticians, pharmacoepidemiologists, and statistical programmers. This VP and their team will partner closely with the biometrics team, clinical development, and other internal stakeholders. The role will involve, but will not be limited to, supporting study planning, generating natural history data to contextualize rare disease trials, contributing to health authority interactions, supporting value demonstration for submission to HTA bodies, and other evidence-generation needs.

We are looking for someone who is innovative and can build systems, programs, and teams from the ground up.

In this role, you will:

• Build, develop, and lead our RWE team
• Participate in governance meetings and provide strategic and scientific input
• Build a roadmap for real-world data licensing and prioritization
• Strategic and scientific contribution to interventional study design and planning
• Conduct externally controlled studies where appropriate and relevant
• Natural history data generation to support study planning and contextualize observed efficacy in rare disease programs
• Support external stakeholder engagement, such as regulatory agencies and HTAs
• Build academic partnerships

The Experience You’ll Need:

• 12+ years of relevant experience in biotechnology or pharmaceuticals
• Strong background in causal inference in non-randomized settings
• Strong background in machine learning
• Familiarity with at least one statistical programming language such as SAS, R, Python, or others.
• Knowledge of the regulatory landscape for rare diseases and oncology.
• Knowledge of regulatory guidance on the use of RWE.
• Knowledge of the global reimbursement landscape and the use of RWE for reimbursement support
• Bonus points for familiarity with CDISC standards
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to travel as needed to our various office locations; up to 25%
• Bachelor’s in a quantitative field; Masters or PhD in a quantitative field preferred

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an office-based, hybrid position at our US headquarters located in Salt Lake City, Utah, or our office in New York City, New York 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 $319,000 to $437,800 (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 isn’t about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
• We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability, we enable trust and autonomy—leaders 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.

Recursion’s 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 www.recursion.com, 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.

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 Recursion’s 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.