Recursion
Your work will change lives. Including your own.
The Impact You’ll Make
Recursion is on the cutting edge of drug discovery, generating proprietary maps of biology that provide unique insights, driving target identification, validation, and ultimately novel clinical candidates. We are seeking an Associate Director, CMC Drug Substance to advance our current and future clinical assets through development and ultimately to patients in need.
In this role, you will:
Lead
external drug substance development across our portfolio including oversight of CDMOs and strategic technical development relationships
Provide
technical leadership, project management and oversight of drug substance process development and manufacturing activities supporting Recursion’s clinical programs
Ensure
delivery of drug substance from external manufacturing campaigns adhering to current quality guidelines and delivery timelines. Typical travel to external manufacturing sites is 10-20% of the time.
Critically analyze
process and analytical data to identify and resolve key synthetic challenges during drug substance development
Participate
in developing and extending our CDMO relationships, budget planning and forecasting for drug substance expenditures and achieving our quality requirements
The Team You’ll Join As Associate Director, CMC Drug Substance, you will be an essential member of the Recursion CMC Team reporting to the Executive Director, CMC Drug Substance. The CMC Team is an empowered, execution‑minded group of scientists and technical experts responsible for translating Recursion’s innovative science to patients in clinic through CMC activities and deliverables.
The Experience You’ll Need
Ph.D. in organic chemistry or closely related field with a minimum of 5‑8 years experience or M.S. with 8‑12 years of experience
Strong knowledge and experience in small molecule drug substance process development and manufacturing best practices across all phases of drug development, from initial regulatory filings through registration, validation and launch
Prior experience leading external development and CDMO relationships is a plus
Demonstration of cross‑functional understanding related to drug substance development including salt/polymorph screening, phase‑appropriate analytical development, standard process of drug product development, quality and regulatory affairs
Well‑versed in the latest trends impacting drug substance technology, manufacturing and the outsourcing industry
Working Location & Compensation This is an office‑based, hybrid position at our US headquarters located in
Salt Lake City, Utah . Employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time.
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
$163,800 to $192,400 (USD) . You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as 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.
More About Recursion Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX) is a clinical‑stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to radically improve lives. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously generate 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 in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montréal, New York, London, Oxford area, and the San Francisco Bay area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com , or connect on LinkedIn.
Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.
Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Equal Opportunity Employment Information (Recursion) We are committed to a high‑performing workplace where everyone feels like they belong and can do the best work of their careers. We reward merit and contribution as we strive for a workplace that reflects the communities in which we operate and the patients we intend to serve. To this end, we invite you to self‑identify your race/ethnicity and gender. This information will be kept confidential and will not be used to favour or discriminate against any candidate. It will not be shared with the hiring managers or otherwise considered as part of your application. Submission of this information is voluntary and refusal to provide any or all of the information requested will not subject you to any adverse treatment.
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Recursion is on the cutting edge of drug discovery, generating proprietary maps of biology that provide unique insights, driving target identification, validation, and ultimately novel clinical candidates. We are seeking an Associate Director, CMC Drug Substance to advance our current and future clinical assets through development and ultimately to patients in need.
In this role, you will:
Lead
external drug substance development across our portfolio including oversight of CDMOs and strategic technical development relationships
Provide
technical leadership, project management and oversight of drug substance process development and manufacturing activities supporting Recursion’s clinical programs
Ensure
delivery of drug substance from external manufacturing campaigns adhering to current quality guidelines and delivery timelines. Typical travel to external manufacturing sites is 10-20% of the time.
Critically analyze
process and analytical data to identify and resolve key synthetic challenges during drug substance development
Participate
in developing and extending our CDMO relationships, budget planning and forecasting for drug substance expenditures and achieving our quality requirements
The Team You’ll Join As Associate Director, CMC Drug Substance, you will be an essential member of the Recursion CMC Team reporting to the Executive Director, CMC Drug Substance. The CMC Team is an empowered, execution‑minded group of scientists and technical experts responsible for translating Recursion’s innovative science to patients in clinic through CMC activities and deliverables.
The Experience You’ll Need
Ph.D. in organic chemistry or closely related field with a minimum of 5‑8 years experience or M.S. with 8‑12 years of experience
Strong knowledge and experience in small molecule drug substance process development and manufacturing best practices across all phases of drug development, from initial regulatory filings through registration, validation and launch
Prior experience leading external development and CDMO relationships is a plus
Demonstration of cross‑functional understanding related to drug substance development including salt/polymorph screening, phase‑appropriate analytical development, standard process of drug product development, quality and regulatory affairs
Well‑versed in the latest trends impacting drug substance technology, manufacturing and the outsourcing industry
Working Location & Compensation This is an office‑based, hybrid position at our US headquarters located in
Salt Lake City, Utah . Employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time.
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
$163,800 to $192,400 (USD) . You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as 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.
More About Recursion Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX) is a clinical‑stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to radically improve lives. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously generate 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 in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montréal, New York, London, Oxford area, and the San Francisco Bay area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com , or connect on LinkedIn.
Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.
Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Equal Opportunity Employment Information (Recursion) We are committed to a high‑performing workplace where everyone feels like they belong and can do the best work of their careers. We reward merit and contribution as we strive for a workplace that reflects the communities in which we operate and the patients we intend to serve. To this end, we invite you to self‑identify your race/ethnicity and gender. This information will be kept confidential and will not be used to favour or discriminate against any candidate. It will not be shared with the hiring managers or otherwise considered as part of your application. Submission of this information is voluntary and refusal to provide any or all of the information requested will not subject you to any adverse treatment.
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