Senior Executive Assistant to CEO

About the role

The Executive Assistant to the CEO will support a visionary leader driving innovation to get better drugs to patients faster. You will manage the CEO’s complex and ever-changing calendar, travel, and communications, partnering with a small team in the office of the CEO to enable the CEO to operate at maximum effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of the CEO’s complex and ever-changing calendar, travel, and communications with discretion and foresight.
• Anticipate scheduling conflicts, track key deliverables, and proactively adjust plans in alignment with the CEO’s goals.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, demonstrating sound judgment and professionalism at all times.
• Plan and coordinate internal and external meetings, ensuring high-caliber materials and logistics.
• Arrange detailed domestic and international travel itineraries.
• Partner with internal teams to coordinate board meetings, offsites, investor events, and company gatherings.
• Maintain confidentiality while ensuring clear and timely information sharing between the CEO, leadership team, and external partners.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience as an Executive Assistant supporting C-suite executives, ideally in a public company or high-growth organization.
• Passion for science, innovation, and improving human health — with an appreciation for the fast-moving world of biotechnology.
• Ability to think ahead, anticipate needs, and propose thoughtful solutions — not just execute tasks.
• Honed organizational skills, written and verbal communication abilities, and a track record of managing competing priorities gracefully.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing needs in real time, ability to prioritize work and deliver projects completed and on time while facing multiple distractions and interruptions.
• Comfort working across time zones and managing frequent international travel.
• Discretion with maintaining confidentiality, managing sensitive information, and building trusted relationships.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, and Slack.

Qualifications

• Love for dogs (and willingness to share the occasional office walk).
• Bonus points: Background in science, technology, or healthcare.
• Experience supporting a CEO of a public company or investor-facing executive.

Skills

• Exceptional organizational and prioritization skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
• Flexibility and adaptability to changing priorities.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, and Slack.

Benefits

This is an office-based position at our office located in New York City, New York (Hudson Yards). At Recursion, we offer:

• An estimated annual base salary range of $130,460–$164,780.
• Annual bonus eligibility.
• Equity compensation.
• A comprehensive benefits package.

Pay

The estimated annual base salary range is: $130,460–$164,780.

Schedule

This is an office-based position.

Company Information

Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX) is a clinical-stage TechBio company decoding biology to radically improve lives. Recursion is advancing a portfolio of differentiated investigational medicines across its wholly owned and partnered pipeline in oncology, rare disease, neuroscience, immunology, and other therapeutic areas with significant unmet need. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, an AI-native, end-to-end drug discovery and development platform integrating biology, chemistry, and clinical development into a unified intelligence system. Powered by proprietary multimodal data, purpose-built AI models, and bilingual teams fluent in both science and AI, the Recursion OS is designed to translate complex science into medicines that matter — faster, better, and at scale — for patients who are waiting. Recursion’s platform infrastructure is anchored in Salt Lake City, Utah and Milton Park, Oxfordshire, where its automated biology and chemistry laboratories generate proprietary data at industrial scale. Recursion also maintains offices in New York, Montréal, and London, three global hubs for talent and leadership at the intersection of AI and scientific innovation.