Executive Director, Clinical Pharmacology/Pharmacometrics

BioSpace; Opportunity (NE); Remote; USD 262,000 - 346,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity compensation

Benefits package

Job summary

Recursion is seeking a senior leader to advance clinical pharmacology and pharmacometrics for a portfolio of oncology and rare disease programs. You will lead strategy, oversee PK/PD analyses, and drive regulatory collaborations with health authorities.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams, design studies, and support dose selection across Phase 1–3 while advancing a rapid development agenda in a remote U.S. setting.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacokinetics or related discipline, M.D. with Clinical Pharmacology expertise, or PharmD with fellowship, with 10+ years in biotech/pharma drug development.
• Demonstrated success leading all clinical pharmacology aspects of drug development.
• Ability to work with stakeholders to manage PK, PK‑PD, and PK‑safety analyses including population PK modeling and simulations.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical pharmacology and pharmacometrics strategy for programs from discovery to development.
• Oversee modeling and simulation to inform dose selection and exposure‑response decisions.
• Contribute to regulatory submissions and health authority interactions.

Skills

PK/PD modeling

Regulatory interactions

Clinical pharmacology

Population PK

Education

Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences

Pharmacokinetics expertise

PharmD with fellowship

Tools

WinNonlin

Monolix

NONMEM

R

Job description

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You'll Make

You will join an innovative and passionate clinical development team dedicated to improving the lives of patients suffering from devastating diseases. You will lead the innovative clinical pharmacology and pharmacometrics strategy and execution for a portfolio of rare disease and oncology clinical programs.

In This Role, You Will

• Develop the clinical pharmacology and pharmacometric strategies to accelerate and support the overall product development plan. You’ll be the Clinical Pharmacology lead for various programs in clinical development, the representative for regulatory interactions, and propose innovative strategies to get therapies to patients faster.
• Solve drug development questions/problems by performing and/or overseeing modeling and simulation with various tools to expedite decision making.
• Design clinical studies. You’ll provide (clinical) pharmacology input on all clinical study designs, from Phase 1-3 and dedicated Phase 1 clinical pharmacology studies.
• Author review relevant clinical pharmacology sections for regulatory documents, including Investigator's Brochures (IB), INDs, NDAs, and other regulatory submissions. Act as the clinical pharmacology expert during interactions with health authorities.
• Interface with cross‑functional teams. You’ll work closely with clinical study teams, translational teams (DMPK, Translational Modeling and Toxicology), preclinical teams and due diligence teams to ensure clinical pharmacology‑related considerations are addressed.

The Team You’ll Join

You will join the Pharmacometrics team within Recursion comprising clinical pharmacology, pharmacometrics, and translational modeling. The Pharmacometrics group sits within Recursion’s Clinical Development organization. Team members get to sit on both Discovery and Development projects and work in a seamless end‑to‑end environment at Recursion. The team collaborates closely with clinical development functions (clinical science, clinical operations, regulatory affairs, biostatistics, etc.), as well as discovery functions (DMPK, Biology, Chemistry and Translational Biomarkers).

The Experience You’ll Need

• Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacokinetics or related discipline, M.D with a Clinical Pharmacology expertise, or a Pharm D. with a Clinical Pharmacology fellowship, with 10+ years of experience in biotech/pharmaceutical drug development.
• Demonstrated success leading all clinical pharmacology related aspects of drug development.
• Ability to work closely with internal and external stakeholders to manage PK, PK‑PD, and PK‑safety analyses, including non‑compartmental analysis, population PK modeling, and PK‑PD modeling and simulations to support dose selection, exposure‑response and exposure‑safety analyses through various phases of drug development.
• Proficiency with WinNonlin, Monolix, NONMEM, R or other modeling software.
• Effective skills directed toward driving collaboration, achieving results, influencing, and resolving conflicts across internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience responding to regulatory agency questions, preparing clinical pharmacology aspects of regulatory submissions and attending regulatory meetings.
• Highly motivated, decisive, and results‑oriented individual who is proactive, resourceful, and efficient with the flexibility and creativity to excel in and contribute to a rapidly growing drug discovery and development company.
• Experience in oncology is preferred, but not an absolute requirement.

Working Location & Compensation

This is a remote position based in the United States with required periodic travel.

Qualifications

At Recursion, we believe that every employee should be compensated fairly. Based on the skills, experience, and qualifications needed for this role, the estimated annual base salary range is:

• New York City, Boston, & San Francisco Bay Area(s): $287,980–$346,060
• Salt Lake City & all other U.S. locations: $261,800–$314,600

In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and 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 (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.