Global Head, Oncology Development

BioSpace; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 344,300 - 413,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity compensation

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

A leading clinical research firm in New York is seeking an experienced oncology executive to lead their oncology strategy and clinical development efforts. The role involves overseeing clinical trial designs, integrating AI/ML technologies, and ensuring ethical medical governance. Ideal candidates should have an MD with board certification in oncology and substantial industry experience. This position offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• MD with Board Certification in Medical Oncology or related specialty required.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry with a track record in oncology programs.
• Proven ability to strategize and manage multiple complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute oncology strategy aligned with clinical development.
• Oversee clinical trial execution and ensure ethical conduct.
• Evaluate and integrate AI/ML tools for optimized trial designs.

Skills

Leadership in oncology

AI/ML in clinical research

Clinical trial design

Patient advocacy engagement

Education

MD with Board Certification in Oncology

MD/PhD preferred

Tools

Clinical governance frameworks

Data analysis platforms

Job description

Job Summary

Recursion is seeking an experienced, collaborative, and strategic oncology executive to champion the use of advanced computational approaches in clinical development and help redefine traditional paradigms of oncology drug development. In this role, you will help us realize a future‑oriented, technology‑driven vision for the oncology portfolio by defining and executing our oncology strategy, and ensuring resources are aligned with strategic priorities.

In This Role You Will

• Provide significant input on clinical plans, trial design, clinical trial execution, medical governance at a program level, and ensure appropriate and adequate clinical resourcing.
• Define disease area strategies and priorities, ensure patient focus and robust evidence package to support successful filings, approvals and commercialization and patient access. Accountable for the ethical conduct of studies in the oncology portfolio.
• Operate as a single point of accountability for medical governance at the clinical level. Ensure adequate clinical oversight of clinical research initiatives and provide a global and objective viewpoint of safety and efficacy by cultivating and sustaining a culture of openness and transparency with patient wellbeing as the key driver in decision‑making.
• Evaluate, integrate, and scale AI/ML tools to optimize trial design, enhance patient recruitment strategies, and drive real‑time data analysis. Foster a deep partnership with data science teams to seamlessly embed real‑world evidence, big data, and advanced analytics into clinical decision‑making, ensuring smarter, faster, and more adaptive clinical development.
• Responsible for drafting and reviewing medical aspects of core study and regulatory documents (i.e., protocols, investigator brochures, INDs, briefing documents, etc.).
• Manage and maintain strong, effective relationships with key external stakeholders and partners (i.e., Key Opinion Leaders and investigators, consultants, patient advocacy groups and other external clinical trial participants) to ensure that the primary goals of the clinical development programs are met.
• Responsible for exploring opportunities for simplification, ensuring that this area is as effective and as efficient as possible to get drugs to patients faster.

Team You’ll Join

As Global Head, Oncology Development, you’ll report directly to the Chief Medical Officer and will be a key member of our leadership team. The Development Team is an empowered, execution‑minded group of clinical development professionals responsible for translating and industrializing Recursion’s innovative science to patients. Our team leverages cutting‑edge clinical technology to accelerate drug development, optimize trial design, and enhance patient outcomes. From deploying AI‑powered platforms for data analysis and predictive modeling to integrating real‑world evidence and biomarker discovery tools, we ensure our clinical programs are both efficient and precise.

Experience You’ll Need

• MD with Board Certification (or equivalent) in Medical Oncology or related Oncology Specialty; MD/PhD preferred.
• Considerable pharmaceutical industry experience and a track record of accomplishments is required.
• Experience working on innovative oncology programs that leverage a strong understanding of digital transformation, clinical trial technologies, and data science, including AI/ML applications in clinical development.
• Understands the entirety of R&D across the development/commercial life cycle to allow impact across all functions: discovery, late‑stage development, regulatory, manufacturing, and commercial.
• Track record of success working in complex, matrixed, global, and multi‑disciplinary organizations with high accountability and multiple lines of reporting.
• Proven ability to strategize, prioritize, and manage multiple projects simultaneously to ensure quality, timely, on‑target, and within‑budget accomplishment of tasks.
• Attention to detail while discriminating between critical and non‑critical activities and following established processes while identifying areas for process improvement.
• Highly developed ethics and integrity, with demonstrated ethical medical decision‑making skills.

Working Location

This position is ideally based at our office located in New York City. We are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50 % of their time in the office.

Compensation

Based on the skill and level of experience required for this role, the estimated current annual base range for this role is $344,300 to $413,600 (USD). You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

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.

More About Recursion

Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX) is a clinical‑stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to radically improve lives. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously generate 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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

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.