Job Description
Your work will change lives. Including your own.
Recursion is at the forefront of reimagining drug discovery through the integration of automated cell biology, high-dimensional and diverse data sets, and sophisticated analytics. We are seeking an experienced Associate Director/Director of Statistical Programming to provide Statistical Programming leadership and expertise in support of clinical development, including oversight of vendors and contract programmers to ensure quality deliverables, and to validate results.
In this role, you will:
- Lead statistical programming activities across clinical programs, ensuring the development and quality control of tables, listings, figures, analysis datasets. Conduct exploratory statistical analysis to support key decision-making.
- Oversee external functional service providers to ensure timely and high-quality programming deliverables.
- Develop and maintain standards, guidance, applications, and processes for Statistical Programming operations in adherence with ICH and regulatory requirements.
- Drive the adoption of innovative programming technologies and workflows to enhance the efficiency of clinical data review, cleaning, reconciliation, and integration. Additionally, develop analytics tools that enable effective data monitoring and knowledge discovery of clinical data.
The Team You’ll Join
As Associate Director/Director of Statistical Programming, you’ll report directly to the Head of Statistical Programming and will be a key member of the Biometrics Leadership Team. The Biometrics Team is an innovation-driven and execution-minded group of drug development professionals responsible for supporting Recursion’s innovative science through novel trial design, data collection, integration, analysis, and enabling data-driven decision making.
The Experience You’ll Need
- BS/MS degree in life science, computer science, statistics, mathematics, or equivalent relevant degree.
- 8+ years of statistics and programming experience with advanced knowledge in pharmaceutical, biotechnology industries, and 5+ years of serving as Lead Statistical Programmer across multiple therapeutic areas.
- Demonstrated proficiency in SAS, R, and R-Shiny and mastery of complex graphing techniques to derive analysis datasets, produce tables, figures and listings, and conduct exploratory analyses.
- Skilled in developing open-source R packages and visual analytics for exploratory and interactive data analysis, visualization, and insight generation.
- Expert knowledge of data standards including CDISC, SDTM, and ADaM, and relevant regulatory guidelines.
- Experience with regulatory submissions in the US, Europe, and other regions.
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills including ability of conflict management and resolution.
Working Location & Compensation:
This role is remote-friendly, with most work conducted from home. There may be occasional opportunities or expectations for travel to our Salt Lake City headquarters or other office locations.
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 $200,600 to $260,200 (USD). You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.
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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.
Our values underpin the employee experience at Recursion. They are the character and personality of the company demonstrated through how we communicate, support one another, spend our time, make decisions, and celebrate collectively.
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.
