Senior Executive Assistant to CEO

Recursion; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,460 - 164,780; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dog-friendly office

Annual bonus

Equity compensation

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Recursion is seeking an Executive Assistant to support the CEO, coordinating complex calendars, travel, and communications with discretion. This role interfaces with the CEO and leadership across the company, supporting cross-functional priorities and external stakeholders.

You will help ensure strategic alignment, timely execution, and efficient operations across U.S., UK, and Canada, with occasional travel and a dog-friendly, collaborative office culture.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience as an Executive Assistant supporting C-suite executives.
• Passion for science, innovation, and improving human health.
• Ability to think ahead and propose thoughtful solutions.
• Honed organizational and written/verbal communication skills.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing needs and manage distractions.
• Comfort working across time zones and international travel.
• Discretion with confidential information.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, and Slack.

Responsibilities

• Manage the CEO’s complex calendar, travel, and communications with discretion and foresight.
• Anticipate scheduling conflicts and track key deliverables; adjust plans accordingly.
• Serve as the primary contact for internal and external stakeholders.
• Plan and coordinate internal and external meetings with high-caliber materials and logistics.
• Arrange detailed domestic and international travel itineraries.
• Partner with internal teams to coordinate board meetings, offsites, investor events, and company gatherings.
• Maintain confidentiality and ensure timely information sharing between CEO, leadership, and external partners.

Skills

Executive support

Calendar management

Travel coordination

Stakeholder communication

Discretion

Time zone coordination

Organizational skills

MS Office

Google Workspace

Slack

Tools

Microsoft Office

Google Workspace

Slack

Job description

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make

As the Executive Assistant to the CEO, you will support a visionary leader driving innovation to get better drugs to patients faster. You will partner with a small team in the office of the CEO to enable the CEO to operate at maximum effectiveness by managing priorities, streamlining operations, and anticipating needs across our fast-paced ecosystem. Your work will directly influence the CEO’s ability to focus on the company’s mission of decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery.

You’ll play a critical role connecting teams, partners, and external stakeholders — ensuring seamless execution across initiatives in the U.S., UK, and Canada. This is a highly impactful position for an experienced professional who thrives on complexity, precision, and making order out of chaos — ideally someone who values both strategic alignment and the joy of working alongside a team (and a really cute dog!).

In this role you will:

• Manage all aspects of the CEO’s complex and ever-changing calendar, travel, and communications with discretion and foresight.


• Anticipate scheduling conflicts, track key deliverables, and proactively adjust plans in alignment with the CEO’s goals.


• Serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, demonstrating sound judgment and professionalism at all times.


• Plan and coordinate internal and external meetings, ensuring high-caliber materials and logistics.


• Arrange detailed domestic and international travel itineraries.


• Partner with internal teams to coordinate board meetings, offsites, investor events, and company gatherings.


• Maintain confidentiality while ensuring clear and timely information sharing between the CEO, leadership team, and external partners.

The Team You’ll Join

You will be joining the executive support team at Recursion, working with the CEO and C-level executives across the company. You will partner closely with other teams including Office of the CEO, People, Finance, Workplace Environment, Communications and Investor Relations. The executive support team is responsible for enabling our senior leadership team members to do their best work and focus on company objectives and priorities, unlocking greater success for Recursion as a whole. You will report to the Chief People Officer, while directly supporting the CEO.

The Experience You’ll Need

• At least 7 years of experience as an Executive Assistant supporting C-suite executives, ideally in a public company or high-growth organization.


• Passion for science, innovation, and improving human health — with an appreciation for the fast-moving world of biotechnology.


• Ability to think ahead, anticipate needs, and propose thoughtful solutions — not just execute tasks.


• Honed organizational skills, written and verbal communication abilities, and a track record of managing competing priorities gracefully.


• Flexibility to adapt to changing needs in real time, ability to prioritize work and deliver projects completed and on time while facing multiple distractions and interruptions


• Comfort working across time zones and managing frequent international travel.


• Discretion with maintaining confidentiality, managing sensitive information, and building trusted relationships.


• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, and Slack.


• Bonus Points:


• Background in science, technology, or healthcare.


• Experience supporting a CEO of a public company or investor-facing executive.


• Love for dogs (and willingness to share the occasional office walk).


• Willingness to travel with the CEO on occasion.

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an office-based position at our office located in New York City, New York (Hudson Yards).

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:$130,460–$164,780. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and 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 (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.

Recursion leverages AI in our hiring process. We use Greenhouse's Talent Matching AI technology feature to help review applications against the skills and experience we've identified as important for this role. It analyzes your resume and application responses to assess how closely your qualifications match our criteria - but all decisions are made by our human recruiters and hiring managers, including whether to move to the next phase of review. Talent Matching does not automatically advance or reject any candidate. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have been informed about and consent to this use of the Talent Matching tool in our review process. Please refer to our Recursion Privacy Policy athttps://www.recursion.com/privacy-notice/ for more information about our processing of personal data and your rights.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employment Information (Recursion)

We are committed to a high-performing workplace where everyone feels like they belong and can do the best work of their careers. We reward merit and contribution as we strive for a workplace that reflects the communities in which we operate and the patients we intend to serve. To this end, we invite you to self-identify your race/ethnicity and gender. This information will be kept confidential and will not be used to favor or discriminate against any candidate. It will not be shared with the hiring managers or otherwise considered as part of your application. Submission of this information is voluntary and refusal to provide any or all of the information requested will not subject you to any adverse treatment.