Your work will change lives. Including your own.
The Impact You’ll Make
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 a forward-thinking Senior Director, Biostatistics to provide statistical leadership and technical expertise to Recursion’s clinical programs. In this role, you will:
- Lead the development and implementation of statistical strategies for clinical programs.
- Provide expert guidance on design options, outcome measures, endpoint assessments, and sample size/power calculations during protocol development. Author statistical sections of protocols, clinical study reports (CSRs), regulatory documents, and statistical analysis plans (SAP) for CSRs and integrated summaries.
- Oversee statistical contributions to regulatory submissions and responses to inquiries and represent the company in interactions with health authorities.
- Manage biometric vendors and contracted personnel, ensuring alignment with statistical methodologies and project objectives.
- Conduct research on statistical methodologies relevant to clinical trial design and analysis.
- Innovate and develop novel methods and tools to enhance biostatistics operations and drive the adoption of cutting-edge trial designs.
- Support the development of biostatistics processes, including SOPs, standards, and best practices
Location:
Making Salt Lake City your home base is ideal, however, we will consider remote work for this position. We ask that remote employees commit to regular on-site visits for routine work and departmental events.
The Team You’ll Join
As Senior Director, Biostatistics, you’ll report directly to the Vice President, Biometrics 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
- PhD or MS in Biostatistics, Statistics, or related or related field, with 12+ years of biostatistics experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology industries, including 7+ years of serving as Lead Biostatistician across multiple therapeutic areas and 5+ years of managerial role.
- Advanced expertise in statistical methods in innovative trial design and analysis, with a proven ability to conduct independent research and address complex statistical issues.
- Strong ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work under tight timelines.
- Proficiency in SAS, R, or R-Shiny
- Deep understanding of GCP, ICH, CDISC, and other regulatory guidance and standards
- Excellent project management skills, including the ability to oversee competing priorities and deliver high-quality work while ensuring adherence to data standards such as CDISC, SDTM, and ADaM, and relevant regulatory requirements.
- Experience with regulatory submissions in the US, Europe, and other global regions.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communications skills, with a proven ability to manage and resolve conflicts.
- Experience in oncology and rare disease clinical trials.
How You’ll be Supported
- Peer mentor assigned for onboarding during first 30 days
- Regular 1:1 meeting with supervisor for support and feedback
- Weekly Biometrics Leadership Team Meeting for alignment
- Attendance to professional and technical conference paid by company once a year
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:
- Developing: $243,000
- Skilled: $270,000
- Expert: $297,000
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:
- 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.
Recursion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursion’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion, and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.
