Director, Computational Biology (Neuroscience)

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make

As the leader of Recursion’s neuroscience computational biology team, you will be at the forefront of reimagining neuroscience drug discovery using Recursion’s massive data capabilities. As Recursion continues to grow our work in neuroscience, together with our partners at Roche & Genentech, you will have the opportunity to help chart that path. Working alongside world-class biologists, medicinal chemists, engineers, data scientists and ML scientists, you'll guide our computational strategy for target selection and prioritization, patient connectivity, and small molecule program decisions, with the ultimate goal of bringing life-changing therapeutics to patients living with neurological or neurodegenerative disease.

In this role, you will:

• Manage and mentor a team of computational biologists and data scientists dedicated to advancing novel therapeutics in the neuroscience space

• Identify datasets and computational strategies to inform novel target prioritization and patient connectivity in neuroscience indications

• Synthesize diverse datasets (internal and external) to generate and evaluate hypotheses for drug discovery, biomarker development, and mechanism of action

• Interpret and discuss data and analysis results with external partners and senior leaders in a clear and compelling way

• Strategize on ways to standardize and scale our approaches and analyses to not only solve for the current project, but also to accelerate future projects and scale the impact that we can have

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Recursion’s data science and ML teams to further advance Recursion’s ability to interpret and translate large-scale phenomics data into therapeutic programs

The Team You’ll Join

You will join a group of data scientists and computational biologists that collaborate with an interdisciplinary collective of biological, computational, drug discovery, and data/machine learning scientists. Our team focus is to leverage our unique combined skillset of scientific and domain expertise together with data analysis and insight generation to drive data-driven decisions in the partnership. To achieve this, we work with many different types of data, understand deeply how they are generated, and design the best analyses to answer key questions in the partnership. These analyses range from data visualizations to ML models to prioritize and advance targets, compounds or programs in our neuroscience partnership with Roche/Genentech.

The Experience You’ll Need

• PhD in a relevant field (computational biology, bioinformatics, neuroscience, cell biology, etc.) with a very strong computational focus and 6+ years of experience in the biotech or pharma industry OR MS in a relevant field and 8+ years experience.

• Adept and experienced at managing a matrixed / cross-functional team, with care for individual’s career development alongside delivery for drug programs.

• Demonstrated experience applying computational methods to analyze complex and high-dimensional biological data (images, proteomics, transcriptomics, GWAS, etc.).

• Exceptional data visualization skills through creation of plots, documentation and presentations. Fluency and experience working with Python and following best software development practices.

• Track record demonstrating successful application of computational biology methods to advance early stage drug discovery (preference for experience in neuroscience)

• Exceptional data visualization skills, and ability to clearly explain computational analyses and methodologies to cross-functional and non-technical teams.

• Owners’ mindset, boldness to learn about new data types and to master new skills.

• Demonstrated ability to carry and prioritize among multiple projects.

• Bold, passionate and highly collaborative with experience working in cross-functional teams

How You’ll be Supported

• Training on Recursion’s culture and values through hand-on workshops as well as online interactive tools will provide insight to our unique approach and strategy for success

• Regular 1:1s with supervisor as well as group meetings and analysis reviews with peers provide opportunities for support and feedback

• Opportunity to attend conferences and workshops, supported with an annual training stipend

• Multiple opportunities for leadership and mentorship training, career coaching and other career/leadership development opportunities

Working Location:

This position is based at our office located in Salt Lake City, Utah or New York City. 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 $220,500 to $280,600. You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits

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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.

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.