Director of Early Portfolio Operations

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make

At Recursion, we’re re-inventing the drug discovery process. Our Recursion OS platform and pioneering approach to Industrialized Drug Discovery Workflows enable us to rapidly and efficiently move chemical hypotheses through a series of phenomics, transcriptomics, and ADME experiments. We’re looking for a strategic, systems-thinking leader with a strong scientific background to optimize our processes, align company and portfolio priorities with experimental execution, and ensure that our innovative early discovery projects progress seamlessly.

In this role, you will :

• Develop, refine, and continuously improve our Industrialized Workflows. Integrate and streamline processes across phenomics, transcriptomics, and ADMET platforms to maximize throughput and minimize bottlenecks.
• Partner with data scientists, chemists, biologists, automation specialists, product managers, and other key stakeholders to ensure smooth and coordinated execution of complex projects. Serve as the operational bridge between scientific innovation and process execution.
• Work with senior leaders across the company to incorporate strategic company and portfolio priorities into the sequencing and scheduling of workflow data production. Proactively identify and resolve potential delays or process inefficiencies to keep projects on track.
• Deploy and manage advanced project management tools, performance metrics, and reporting systems. Use data-driven insights to forecast resource needs, manage bottlenecks, and drive continuous improvement across the platform.
• Clearly communicate operational performance, process improvements, and project milestones with internal teams and external partners. Ensure transparency and alignment at all levels of the organization.

The Team You’ll Join

This role will report into the VP of Business Operations and be further supported by the entire Business Operations group at Recursion. This group is responsible for project and program management, strategic planning, corporate goals / priorities, org design, corporate data and analytics, operational / administrative support, and other corporate initiatives. In addition, you’ll work closely with key stakeholders from data science, product management, technical operations, portfolio / commercial strategy, and other groups across Recursion.

The Experience You’ll Need

Working Location :

This position is based at our office located in Salt Lake 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 :

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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.

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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 : $220,000