Director of Early Portfolio Operations

Company: Recursion
Location: Salt Lake City
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

Your work will change lives. Including your own.The Impact You'll MakeAt Recursion, we're re-inventing the drug discovery process. Our Recursion OS platform and pioneering approach to Industrialized Drug Discovery Workflows enable us to rapidly and efficiently move chemical hypotheses through a series of phenomics, transcriptomics, and ADME experiments. We're looking for a strategic, systems-thinking leader with a strong scientific background to optimize our processes, align company and portfolio priorities with experimental execution, and ensure that our innovative early discovery projects progress seamlessly.In this role, you will:

• Develop, refine, and continuously improve our Industrialized Workflows. Integrate and streamline processes across phenomics, transcriptomics, and ADMET platforms to maximize throughput and minimize bottlenecks.
• Partner with data scientists, chemists, biologists, automation specialists, product managers, and other key stakeholders to ensure smooth and coordinated execution of complex projects. Serve as the operational bridge between scientific innovation and process execution.
• Work with senior leaders across the company to incorporate strategic company and portfolio priorities into the sequencing and scheduling of workflow data production. Proactively identify and resolve potential delays or process inefficiencies to keep projects on track.
• Deploy and manage advanced project management tools, performance metrics, and reporting systems. Use data-driven insights to forecast resource needs, manage bottlenecks, and drive continuous improvement across the platform.
• Clearly communicate operational performance, process improvements, and project milestones with internal teams and external partners. Ensure transparency and alignment at all levels of the organization.The Team You'll JoinThis role will report into the VP of Business Operations and be further supported by the entire Business Operations group at Recursion. This group is responsible for project and program management, strategic planning, corporate goals/priorities, org design, corporate data and analytics, operational/administrative support, and other corporate initiatives. In addition, you'll work closely with key stakeholders from data science, product management, technical operations, portfolio/commercial strategy, and other groups across Recursion.The Experience You'll Need
  • An advanced degree (Ph.D. preferred) in life sciences, chemistry, bioengineering, or a related field, with hands-on experience in early stage drug discovery programs.
  • 5+ years of experience in operations or program management within techbio, pharmaceutical, or early drug discovery settings, demonstrating a track record of process optimization and systems thinking. Experience with SQL (or similar) is a plus.
  • Adept at aligning diverse teams and projects with overarching strategic priorities, you excel in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment. Your ability to communicate complex operational insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders is unparalleled.
  • A passion for building and optimizing processes that drive efficiency and impact. Experience with high-throughput experimentation and industrialized drug discovery processes is a significant plus.
  • You're experienced in implementing project management methodologies and operational tools that facilitate real-time tracking, forecasting, and decision-making.Working Location:This position is based at our office located in Salt Lake City. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time in the office.Compensation:
    • Developing: $180,000
    • Expert: $220,000To learn more about our level within levels, click here.You will also be eligible for bonuses and equity compensation + our comprehensive benefits package for United States based candidates. The range displayed on each job posting reflects target ranges for US new hire salaries and is determined by job, level, and market factors.The Values That We Hope You Share:
      • We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
      • We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
      • We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement, making time and space to recover.
      • Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity, but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
      • We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.More About RecursionRecursion 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 in Salt 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.
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