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 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 position is ideally based at our office located in New York City but we will also consider candidates located within commuting distance to Salt Lake City, Toronto, London,UK. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time in the office. Relocation support can be provided.
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 is:
- Associate Director 162,000 - 198,000 USD / 204,000 - 250,000 CAD / 79,000 - 97,000 GBP
- Director 186,000 - 228,000 USD / 230,000 - 281,000 CAD / 90,000 - 110,000 GBP
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 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.
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