Vice President, Medical Affairs
The Impact You’ll Make
Your work will change lives. Including your own.
Team You’ll Join
You will join Recursion’s Clinical Development organization, reporting to the Chief Medical Officer. The Clinical Development team is an empowered, execution-minded group responsible for translating Recursion’s innovative science into medicines for patients.
The Experience You’ll Need
- Advanced clinical or scientific degree required; MD, DO, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent advanced degree strongly preferred
- 15+ years of biotech or pharmaceutical industry experience, including significant leadership experience in Medical Affairs
- Experience building and leading Medical Affairs strategy for clinical-stage or launch-stage assets, ideally in oncology, rare disease, immunology, or other specialty therapeutic areas.
- Proven ability to lead integrated evidence planning, including RWE, HEOR, epidemiology, burden-of-disease, natural history, treatment-pattern, outcomes, and value-focused studies
- Strong understanding of drug development from early clinical development through launch readiness and lifecycle planning, including how Medical Affairs contributes to trial design, endpoint strategy, external engagement, publications, and evidence generation.
- Demonstrated success in engaging KOLs, investigators, patient advocacy organizations, professional societies, payers/HTA stakeholders, and other external experts through compliant scientific exchange.
- Experience developing scientific platforms, publication plans, congress strategies, advisory boards, medical education initiatives, and medical information resources.
- Strong working knowledge of relevant compliance expectations, including scientific exchange, medical review, publication practices, advisory board governance, and interactions with healthcare professionals across the US & globally
Working Location & Compensation
This is a fully remote opportunity with occasional travel requirements. Travel may be necessary from time to time to support collaboration, team events, customer meetings, or other business needs.
At Recursion, we believe that every employee should be compensated fairly. Based on the skills, experience, and qualifications needed for this role, the estimated annual base salary range is:
- New York City, Boston, & San Francisco Bay Area(s): $358,930–$449,240
- Salt Lake City & all other U.S. locations: $326,300–$408,400
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 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. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on X and LinkedIn.
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. 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.