What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Operations & Strategy Contractor position at Recursion?
Your work will change lives. Including your own.
The Impact You’ll Make
Recursion is at the forefront of reimagining drug discovery through the integration of automated cell biology, high-dimensional and diverse data sets, and sophisticated analytics. We are seeking a Manager, Operations & Strategy Contractor to support our R&D organization and our SVP of Clinical Development & Data Science. This role will help coordinate multiple workstreams under the ‘ClinTech initiative’ with a focus on driving technology, data, and AI driven clinical development at Recursion.
This role is critical for ensuring the seamless integration of development activities across the ClinTech initiative, timely execution of project milestones and achieving company operational excellence. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in biotech and strong scientific and business acumen. In this role, you will :
- Collaborate closely with the SVP of Clinical Development & Data Science, their senior leadership team (SLT), and the ClinTech workstream leads to create strategic plans and execute near-term and longer-term plans
- Serve as a key point of contact between the leadership team and other departments, facilitating clear communication and ensuring alignment across the organization
- Lead cross-functional teams to ensure alignment, efficiency, and coordinated delivery of solutions across all development stages
- Negotiate and manage contracts and agreements to support R&D activities as needed.
- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and use data to recommend operational improvements and strategic adjustments.
- This contract will be for 6 months.
Location :
Making New York City your home base is ideal, however, we will consider remote work for this position. We ask that remote employees commit to regular on-site visits for routine work and departmental events.
The Experience You’ll Need
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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.
