Senior Director of Data Platform

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

Recursion is a leading, clinical-stage TechBio company decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Central to its mission is the Recursion Operating System (OS), a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological, chemical and patient-centric 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, chemistry and patient-centric data to advance the future of medicine. Today, Recursion has more than 10 clinical and preclinical programs, 10 advanced discovery programs, and more than 10 partnered programs.

The Impact You’ll Make

You will lead a team working to standardize and automate the process of accessing and analyzing data across Recursion. From experiment data to cutting edge ML to process automation, all data flows to the lake. You will work cross-functionally across tech, science and the business to translate across groups and facilitate collaboration.

In this role, you will:

• Enable your teams for scale - The analytics and data infrastructure teams are responsible for building and operating a data platform that allows users to discover and query across the breadth of our data at Recursion. We have a chemistry library of billions of compounds, more than 30 petabytes of image and video data taken in millions of different experimental contexts to support Recursion’s drug discovery and analytics capabilities that enable everything from operating a lab to running a clinical trial. In this role, you will work closely with the team to understand the needs of the business and build clear solutions.
• Act as a mentor, coach, and sponsor - You will share your technical, leadership and managerial skills and experiences, delivering impact, learning, and growth across teams at Recursion. We believe that the best work comes from working across organizational boundaries and you will have opportunities to partner with groups across the business.
• Enable a data driven culture - Data is at the core of everything we do. You will work with stakeholders and partners across the business to ensure we are getting the most value from the data we generate. Problems you will work on could range from investigation around data locality through company level metric definitions. 

The Team You’ll Join 

You will join a peer group of technical leaders that work together on the craft of engineering leadership as well as debate system level architecture choices and patterns. We all work better when we have the support of those around us and are learning together to solve problems across our teams.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Significant experience in a technical data role and excitement for deeply engaging in technical discussions and decisions your team is making to drive us forward.
• Experience empowering leaders in a matrixed environment using both technical and interpersonal skills to achieve results.
• A people-first mindset. We deliver in a way that prioritizes supporting our coworkers in their growth and experience and see how Conway’s Law shapes our outcomes.
• Demonstrated past record of learning from and teaching peers in areas of data, performance, scalability, and system architecture.
• Excitement to learn parts of our tech stack that you might not already know. Our current tech stack includes: Python, dbt, Big Query, Postgres, Looker, Spotfire, Atlan and GCP.
• Fluency in life sciences or drug discovery is a plus but not required to be considered.

Working Location:

This position is based at our office located in Toronto or London. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time in the office.

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 $274,000 - $334,000 (CAD)/£131,000 - £160,000 (GBP). You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

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.