Job description
Your work will change lives. Including your own.
The Impact You’ll Make
Recursion is a leading TechBio company that is reimagining drug discovery using the Recursion Operating System to generate novel insights and accelerate therapeutic programs. Partnerships are a critical aspect of Recursion’s business model and delivery for the company. We are seeking a Director, Alliance Management who can lead alliance management for some of our strategic collaborations. In this role, you will play a critical role in driving value from our partnerships and helping Recursion continue to be seen as an innovative collaborator. You will work with colleagues across the Recursion organization (e.g. Biology, HTS, Data Science, Legal), mobilizing resources and expertise to ensure partnership and program success. To be successful, you must be self-driven, have a collaborative mindset, excellent executive presence and the ability to transparently communicate with team members at all levels both internally and externally.
In this role you will:
Manage a portfolio of alliances as Alliance Director ranging from data partnerships, drug discovery partnerships to asset-licensing agreements in support of Recursion’s pipeline expansion. This entails being a “GM” of each of the partnerships in conjunction with the scientific leads- such as staying abreast of all partnership key activities, are resourced appropriately, and ensuring Recursion is delivering and extracting value from these relationships with speed and quality.
- Operationalize and steer each alliance through joint governance committees to ensure effectiveness, appropriate communication, and coordination of activities towards alliance objectives
- Identify and proactively tackle risks that arise from contractual complications or partner differences, and work diplomatically to resolve issues in an equitable and timely manner
- Monitor and track compliance with financial and non-financial obligations, such as milestones and royalties, publications, IP, and diligence efforts, and working with internal and external counterparts to amend or extend contracts as needed
- Integrate alliance management best practices throughout the organization and build systems and processes for future partnership opportunities
- Coach and embed ways of working for Recursion to be a respected scientific collaborator and partner of choice
The Team You’ll Join
As Director of Alliance Management, you will be a core member of the Recursion Alliance Management team which is a part of Business Development and Corporate Initiatives. In your role, you will work with colleagues across the Recursion organization (e.g. Biology, HTS, Data Science), mobilizing resources to ensure partnership and program success. To be successful, you will need self-initiative, a collaborative mindset, excellent executive presence and the ability to transparently communicate with team members at all levels both internally and externally.
The Experience You’ll Need
- BS/BA in Life Sciences, Computational Science or other technical field
- Advanced degree (MBA, PharmD, PhD) preferred
- Minimum 5 years of applicable drug discovery or development experience
- At least 5 years experience in alliance management in pharma or biotech
- Knowledge of the drug development process, particularly in early discovery research through development stages, to enable meaningful dialogue with internal stakeholders and external partners
- Experience with contract interpretation, including terms and obligations and the ability to translate the terms in a way that is understood by colleagues and team members
- Outstanding experience in preparation and execution of governance meetings
- Skilled in relationship building both internally and externally
- Passion for innovation and delivery mindset
- Demonstrated high performer
- Strong EQ and executive presence
- Ability to wear many hats and pivot with business needs
- Comfortable and experienced in working in a fast paced environment
- Strong experience in navigating ambiguity
Working Location & Compensation:
This position is based at one of our offices located in Salt Lake City, New York City, or London. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time in the 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:
- $206,000 - $276,000 USD
- £112,900 - £138,600 GBP
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 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 world’s 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 www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) 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.
