# Executive Director, Chemical Biology

**Company**: Recursion
**Location**: Salt Lake City, Utah
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $237,600–$284,900
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Recursion is seeking an Executive Director of Chemical Biology to develop and lead chemical biology efforts that bridge multiomic discovery with target ID, including chemical probe design.

This is a senior scientific leadership role responsible for setting chemical biology strategy, managing a team of designers, and driving programs that bridge multiomic discovery to target ID and designing our chemical probe library to facilitate target discovery.

You will lead multidisciplinary project teams, partnering closely internally with biology, multiomics platform, computational biologists, and data scientists to translate novel target and ligand insights into potent, selective, and developable chemical matter.

The team tackles structurally enabled and non-structurally enabled targets across a diverse range of therapeutic areas, with a growing focus on proximity.

In this role, you will:

- Set chemical biology strategy for Recursion based on our multiomics platform, with a focus on linking our proprietary maps of biology to targets using modern chemical biology methods.

- Build, manage, and mentor a team of multiomics chemists, fostering a coaching-driven environment for growth.

- Establish and manage internal and external chemistry teams and networks to execute screening, synthesis, and validation campaigns.

- Partner closely with biology, target ID teams, structural biology, and computational drug design to align chemical biology strategy with target validation and platform capabilities.

- Define and align program strategy and go/no-go criteria with senior leadership, factoring in competitive landscape and portfolio priorities.

- Represent the team in portfolio reviews and governance meetings, and lead technical discussions on molecular design with external collaborators and partners.

- Contribute to IP strategy and business development activities related to novel chemical matter and new modalities.

The Experience You'll Need:

- PhD in chemical biology, chemistry, or related field, with 10+ years of relevant industry experience and demonstrated people leadership.

- Deep, hands-on track record in chemical probe design.

- Proven ability to deconvolute phenotypic hits to mechanism via chemoproteomics or equivalent target ID methods.

- Track record building and scaling a chemical biology function.

- Experience setting multi-year technical strategy.

- Comfortable operating with high ambiguity.

- Executive-level communication.

- Prior experience managing, mentoring, or leading chemists and cross-functional project teams.

Nice to have:

- Direct experience with phenomics, high-content imaging.

- Familiarity with how AI/ML-derived phenotypic signatures inform compound prioritization or target nomination.

- External scientific visibility.

- Experience contributing to IP strategy or licensing diligence involving novel chemical matter.

Working Location & Compensation: We are open to candidates who are local or interested in moving to Salt Lake City, Utah; employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time. The estimated annual base salary range is: $237,600–$284,900. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and a comprehensive benefits package.

## Skills

### Required
- chemical biology
- multiomic discovery
- target ID
- chemical probe design
- chemoproteomics
- team leadership
- strategic planning

### Nice to have
- phenomics
- high-content imaging
- AI/ML-derived phenotypic signatures
- IP strategy
- licensing diligence

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