Vice President of Clinical Development, Rare Disease
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
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The Impact You’ll Make
You will join an innovative and passionate clinical development team dedicated to improving the lives of patients suffering from devastating diseases. You will lead the innovative clinical development strategy and execution for a portfolio of rare disease clinical programs, represent Recursion to investigators, patient advocacy groups and key opinion leaders, and act as medical monitor for one or more programs. You will collaborate with translational and data scientists across the organization to develop Recursion's data-to-therapeutic pipeline to discover new impactful medicines.
- Lead development strategy and refinement of the clinical plans for rare diseases, integrating clinical, pre-clinical, CMC, regulatory and corporate strategy. Provide leadership to clinical project teams.
- Deliver excellence in both strategy and execution of the clinical programs by working closely with internal and external partners in clinical operations, project management, biostatistics, data management, regulatory affairs, nonclinical, CMC, medical writing, and others. Conduct trials using GCP and high ethical standards and ensure compliance to these standards.
- Manage completion of all deliverables required for the success of clinical programs by performing and/or contributing to the following:
- Regulatory document preparation and review (e.g. briefing documents, applications for special designations, PIP, IND and NDA/BLA submissions)
- Writing and development of clinical documentation including protocols, clinical study reports, investigator brochures
- Medical monitoring of clinical trials including ongoing safety monitoring; Regulatory safety reporting (serious AEs and periodic safety updates).
- Clinical trial data review including internal summary presentations as required
- Inspire and build relationships with clinical investigators, thought leaders and patient advocacy groups; Participate in conferences and share our breakthrough science with rare disease patients and the scientific community.
The Team You’ll Join
As VP, Clinical Development you’ll report directly to the Chief Medical Officer and will be a key member of the Development Anchor Leadership Team. The Development Team is an empowered, execution-minded group of clinical development professionals responsible for translating Recursion’s innovative science to patients. In your role, you will lead the strategic development of Phase 1, proof-of-concept, and pivotal studies for a portfolio of diverse therapeutic programs targeted to rare disease indications. Prior experience in the rare disease space with an understanding of the unique clinical and regulatory challenges is important. The ideal candidate will also need to have a keen interest and experience in working with discovery colleagues towards advancing molecules to IND . You will need a unique combination of strong fundamentals in clinical development and the ability to be creative in identifying and crafting the right strategy for diseases with very little precedent.
The Experience You’ll Need
- MD or Phd required
- 7+ years’ experience in Clinical Research and/or Drug Development in Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology
- Experience in design, execution, and monitoring of clinical trials is required
- Experience in developing investigational therapies for rare diseases is desired as is experience with/comfort in translational drug development
- Capable of prioritizing tasks and delivering on deadlines with attention to detail
- Effective skills directed toward driving collaboration, achieving results, influencing, and resolving conflicts across internal and external stakeholders
- Highly motivated, decisive, and results-oriented individual who is proactive, resourceful, and efficient with the flexibility and creativity to excel in and contribute to a rapidly growing drug discovery and development company
Location
This is a hybrid position located at one of our offices (Salt Lake City, Milpitas, CA, Toronto, London, UK) Relocation support is available for qualifying candidates not local to the area.
How You’ll be Supported
- Invitation to attend Decoding Recursion - an offsite experience, after you onboard, as a deep dive into Recursion’s Founding Principles and Values
- Option to participate in coaching like BetterUp for leadership skills and development programs
- Option to attend conferences to learn more from colleagues, networks, and more to better your skillset
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:
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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.
During the interview selection process, you will connect with a Talent Acquisition Partner who will be your advocate and ally to ensure you receive the appropriate compensation that meets your needs for your skills, experience, and relevant education/training, while also reviewing our very competitive total rewards package.
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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.
Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here.
More About Recursion
Recursion 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.