Director of Clinical Data Management

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

We are seeking a Director, Clinical Data Management who can lead and oversee end to end Clinical Data Management activities on assigned studies and programs. You’ll also play a critical role in the management of all the 3rd party data sources and serve as SME for Data Management. You’ll be responsible for leading and delivering initiatives for CDM within the Biometrics group. You’ll also be proactive and be keen to collaborate with cross functional groups within the Clinical Development organization and larger Data Science teams at Recursion. Daily, you will be responsible for all the CDM study activities and deliverables, document reviews, oversight of CRO’s, timelines and project risk management. You can expect to work on multiple projects at the same time in a fast-paced and exciting environment. In this role, you will:

• Provide strategic and hands-on leadership for end-to-end Clinical Data Management across outsourced studies, requiring extensive technical expertise in EDC build, external data acquisition, reconciliation, standards implementation, and database lock activities.

• Lead 3–4+ outsourced programs simultaneously with full oversight of vendor performance, data quality, deliverables, timelines, and operational risks.

• Represent CDM in study meetings and governance forums, ensuring proactive issue resolution, transparent communication, and alignment of data-related expectations.

• Oversee EDC design, configuration, testing, and integration of systems such as IRT, ePRO/eCOA, imaging, wearables, and other external data sources, providing technical direction to vendors.

• Develop Vendor Oversight Plans and ensure continuous monitoring of data quality, compliance, KPIs, and audit readiness.

• Serve as the technical SME for CDM systems, data standards, data flow architecture, SDTM alignment, and operational processes.

• Lead the development and standardization of CRFs, Data Review Plans, edit checks, and cross-functional data workflows to ensure consistency and high-quality data capture.

• Oversee the creation and review of CDMPs, CCGs, edit check specifications, data transfer and reconciliation plans, DVPs, and database lock documentation.

• Ensure vendor data collection and external data approaches align with Recursion standards and SDTM/ADaM requirements to support downstream analysis and regulatory submissions.

• Drive strategic initiatives to modernize CDM operations, enhance scalability, strengthen data pipeline efficiency, and improve inspection readiness.

• Guide submission-related CDM activities, ensuring data traceability, integrity, and regulatory compliance.

• Manage Data Management budgets, analyze cost trends, support forecasting, and contribute to vendor negotiation strategies.

• Thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment where priorities and protocols shift rapidly, maintaining flexibility, resilience, and a solution-oriented mindset.

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners including Biostatistics, Statistical Programming, Medical Monitoring, Clinical Sciences, Regulatory, QA, and Clinical Operations to ensure aligned data strategy and seamless study execution.

• Support the development and continuous improvement of CDM SOPs, Work Instructions, and standard templates to ensure operational consistency and quality.

• Ensure compliance with GCP, regulatory requirements, and CDM best practices.

The Team You’ll Join

Reporting to the Executive Director, Clinical Data Management and working closely with Biometrics, Clinical Operations and Clinical development Organization, you will be an essential member of the Recursion Development Team. The Development Team is an empowered, execution-minded group of drug development professionals responsible for translating Recursion’s innovative science to patients through clinical development activities.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in science, math or computer science

• 14+ years’ experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. Experience, technical proficiency and People management skills will determine the level.

• Experience managing external data and 3rd party vendors is a must.

• Strong knowledge of regulations and guidelines that apply to the conduct of clinical trials.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to work collaboratively as a part of a team.

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an office-based, hybrid position at one of our offices in either Salt Lake City, Utah or 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 $215,000 - $266,600 (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 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.