Associate General Counsel, Business Development

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make

You will drive key partnerships and transactions that advance Recursion’s mission to decode biology to radically improve lives. These partnerships and ongoing support of key alliances will ensure Recursion continues to set the bar in significant collaborations within the Techbio industry.

In this role, you will :

• Help to craft win-win partnerships that accelerate Recursion’s mission, driving the company forward and setting new industry standards
• Partner with the Business Development team to align to business priorities while protecting the company’s interests
• Lead the execution of term sheets and definitive agreements across research collaborations, technology licensing, asset licensing, and other complex transactions; conducting diligence, reviewing, interpreting, and negotiating terms, in strategic alignment with the Business Development leadership and broader Company goals
• Support pre-existing collaborations in concert with alliance management through ongoing contract interpretation; drafting amendments as needed; advising on contract compliance, including those provisions relating to data licenses and governance among partnerships
• Facilitate internal contract approval and stakeholder negotiation to resolve complex issues and assist in disputes (escalating complex legal and factual issues to the appropriate internal parties, educating stakeholders on contract term implications). Communicate with business units to ensure all obligations are being met (e.g., milestones, deliverables, invoicing etc.).
• Work with Intellectual Property to support its strategic IP filing strategy, prosecution and maintenance as it pertains to business development
• Serve as a subject matter authority on business development and alliance management matters within the Law Department and collaborate with other legal functions as needed (e.g., Corporate Governance, Intellectual Property, Compliance, Data Privacy and Governance, Litigation and Products / Regulatory Law group)

The Team You’ll Join

You will join a high-functioning team of expert lawyers, each working to advance the mission of Recursion. While the legal team members each have defined areas of expertise and support, they regularly connect to support each other in work and communication as well as professional development. Your role specifically will partner collaboratively with the Business Development team, which includes Alliance Management. Both groups operate at a fast-pace with open lines of communication and transparent strategic imperatives.

The Experience You’ll Need

Working Location :

This position is based at our office located in Salt Lake City or New York preferably. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time per week in office.

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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 :

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You will also be eligible for bonuses and equity compensation our comprehensive benefits package for United States based candidates. The range displayed on each job posting reflects target ranges for US new hire salaries and is determined by job, level, and market factors.

During the interview selection process, you will connect with a Talent Acquisition Partner who will be your advocate and ally to ensure you receive the appropriate compensation that meets your needs for your skills, experience, and relevant education / training, while also reviewing our very competitive total rewards package.

The Values That We Hope You Share :

Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here .

More About Recursion

Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands 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 inSalt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive , the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London, Toronto, Montreal 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 that values diversity and inclusion. 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.Recursion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. 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.

Salary : $248,000