Recursion
Associate Director, Alliance Management
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Job Description
- Req#: 5559600
- Manage alliances ranging from large, complex discovery partnerships to asset-licensing agreements in support of Recursion’s pipeline expansion
- Operationalize and steer each alliance through joint governance committees to ensure effectiveness, appropriate communication, and coordination of activities towards alliance objectives
- Identify and proactively tackle risks that arise from contractual complications or partner differences, and work diplomatically to resolve issues in an equitable and timely manner
- Monitor and track compliance with obligations, such as milestones and royalties, publications, IP, and diligence efforts, and working with internal and external counterparts to amend or extend contracts as needed
- Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 5 years OR 3 years experience with advanced degree (MBA, PharmD, PhD) of applicable drug development experience
- 2+ years experience in alliance management in biopharma or biotech with significant, direct interactions with external partners
- Knowledge of the drug development process, particularly in early discovery research through development stages, to enable meaningful dialogue with internal stakeholders and external partners
- Experience with contractual agreements, governance structure, terms and obligations and the ability to translate the terms in a way that is understood by colleagues and team members
- Experience recommending pragmatic solutions & approaches
- Experience implementing collaboration best practices a plus
- Option to attend Decoding Recursion - an offsite experience, after you onboard, as a deep dive into Recursion’s Founding Principles and Values
- Support to learn the Recursion Operating System and how it is the foundation of our partnerships in the first 90 days to ensure quick ramp up
- Option to participate in coaching like BetterUp for leadership skills and development programs
- Developing: $151,000
- Skilled: $168,000
- Expert: $185,000
- 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.
Your work will change lives. Including your own.
The Impact You’ll Make
Recursion is a leading TechBio company that is reimagining drug discovery using the Recursion Operating System to generate novel insights and accelerate therapeutic programs. Partnerships are a critical aspect of Recursion’s business model and delivery for the company. We are seeking an Associate Director who can lead alliance management for some of our strategic collaborations. In this role, you will play a critical role in driving value from our partnerships and helping Recursion continue to be seen as an innovative collaborator. You will work with colleagues across the Recursion organization (e.g. Biology, HTS, Data Science, Legal), mobilizing resources and expertise to ensure partnership and program success. To be successful, you will need self-initiative, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to transparently communicate with organization team members at all levels.
In this role you will:
Location:
Making Salt Lake City your home base is ideal, however, we will consider remote work for this position. Remote employees will be required to have regular on-site visits for routine work and departmental events.
The Team You’ll Join
As Associate Director of Alliance Management, you will be a core member of the Recursion Corporate Development Team reporting to the Senior Director of Alliance Management. The Corporate Development Team is an empowered, execution-minded group of alliance management, business development and portfolio management professionals responsible for scouting, securing, and building partnerships that feed Recursion’s early discovery platform and clinical stage pipeline.
The Experience You’ll Need
How You’ll be Supported
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:
To 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.
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:
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 Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on 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.
About the company
Reengineering drug discovery through digital biology. We are discovering transformative new treatments by combining automation, machine learning, in vivo validation, and a highly cross-functional team.