Vice president, medical affairs

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make

At Recursion, we are decoding biology to radically improve lives. As Vice President, Medical Affairs, you will help shape how Recursion translates breakthrough science, clinical data, real-world evidence, and AI-enabled insights into meaningful impact for patients, clinicians, investigators, and health systems.

You will build and lead the Medical Affairs strategy across Recursion’s advancing clinical portfolio, with an initial focus on programs in areas of significant unmet need, including oncology, rare disease, immunology, and other priority therapeutic areas. This is a high-impact, cross-functional leadership role for a strategic medical affairs leader who can operate from early development through launch readiness, bring the external medical voice into portfolio decisions, and establish scalable capabilities for scientific engagement, evidence generation, medical communications, and medical excellence.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and lead integrated Medical Affairs strategies for priority assets, including scientific narrative, evidence gaps, stakeholder engagement, publication strategy, medical education, advisory boards, field medical planning, and launch readiness.
• Provide Medical Affairs support on cross-functional asset teams, partnering with Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Development Sciences, HEOR/RWE, Biostatistics, Clinical Operations, Portfolio Strategy, Patient Advocacy, Communications, Legal/Compliance, and Business Development, where appropriate.
• Build evidence-generation plans that support asset differentiation, patient benefit, clinical adoption, and value demonstration, including real-world evidence, HEOR, epidemiology, natural history, burden of disease, treatment patterns, and outcomes-focused studies.
• Translate external insights from healthcare professionals, investigators, patient communities, payers, health systems, and scientific leaders into actionable recommendations for development strategy, trial design, endpoints, education needs, and evidence priorities.
• Lead scientific engagement strategy with key opinion leaders, digital opinion leaders, investigators, cooperative groups, patient advocacy organizations, professional societies, and other external stakeholders through compliant, high-quality scientific exchange.
• Lead congress and conference strategy for priority programs, including planning and execution for major scientific meetings such as ASCO, ESMO, AACR, AAN, and other relevant medical congresses; partner cross-functionally on abstracts, presentations, scientific narratives, medical booths, KOL engagement, and internal preparation.
• Partner with Recursion’s data science, platform, and Decision Science teams to explore responsible use of AI-enabled approaches for medical insights, evidence synthesis, stakeholder mapping, scientific communication, and measurement of medical impact.
• Establish the medical communication strategy for assigned assets, including publications, congress abstracts and presentations, lexicon, scientific platform, FAQs, medical information content, and internal scientific training.
• As the portfolio matures, design and build a structured, scalable Medical Affairs organization, including fit-for-purpose capabilities across medical strategy, field medical, medical communications, medical information, evidence generation, congress planning, insights, and medical excellence.
• Establish governance, operating rhythms, vendor partnerships, performance metrics, and compliant processes that enable Medical Affairs to support Recursion’s growth from clinical-stage development through potential launch readiness.

The 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.

You will work closely with leaders across Development, Regulatory, Development Sciences, Clinical Operations, Data Science, Biology, Chemistry, Portfolio Strategy, Communications, Legal/Compliance, and future commercialization functions. Together, you will help ensure Recursion’s clinical programs are informed by robust evidence, external medical insight, patient need, and the full potential of the RecursionOS.

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.

More 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.

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.

Recursion leverages AI in our hiring process. We use Greenhouse's Talent Matching AI technology feature to help review applications against the skills and experience we've identified as important for this role. It analyzes your resume and application responses to assess how closely your qualifications match our criteria - but all decisions are made by our human recruiters and hiring managers, including whether to move to the next phase of review. Talent Matching does not automatically advance or reject any candidate. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have been informed about and consent to this use of the Talent Matching tool in our review process. Please refer to our Recursion Privacy Policy at https://www.recursion.com/privacy-notice/ for more information about our processing of personal data and your rights.

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