Vice President, Head of IP and Strategic Transactions

The Impact You’ll Make

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Team You’ll Join

You will be joining a dynamic team of attorneys, stock administration professionals, and an IP paralegal, who you will manage. The team works closely and collaboratively with one another on overall legal strategy, departmental budget, projects, and professional development. The team relies on a communicative and supportive atmosphere to enable nimble advice and prioritization aligned with business goals.

The Experience You’ll Need

• 10+ years of experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the life sciences in the US and internationally at a law firm and in-house, including patent portfolio management
• Significant experience with supporting strategic transactions, from drafting term sheets to direct negotiations
• Leadership or managerial experience
• Deep knowledge of and experience with patent and trade secret laws, particularly in the field of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology
• Ability to operate independently with scientists and business leaders to create an intellectual property portfolio aligned with company strategy
• An interest in learning about emerging trends in biotech, including the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) workflows throughout the drug development life cycle, from target identification through the clinical approval process.
• Ability to translate and communicate complex subject matter to internal stakeholders, e.g., science to nonscientists and legal materials to nonlawyers
• Registered to practice at the USPTO
• Admitted to practice in at least one state and eligible to practice law in Utah as in-house counsel

Working Location & Compensation

• This is a hybrid-based position at either of our offices located in New York City, New York, or Salt Lake City, Utah. Employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time. Relocation support can be provided for candidates not local to either geographical location.
• In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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.

About Recursion

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

• Anchor in Salt Lake City, Utah and Milton Park, Oxfordshire, where its automated biology and chemistry laboratories generate proprietary data at industrial scale.
• Maintains offices in New York, Montréal, and London, three global hubs for talent and leadership at the intersection of AI and scientific innovation.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.