Senior Stock Plan Administrator

BioSpace; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 153,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity compensation

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

A prominent TechBio company in Salt Lake City is seeking a Stock Plan Manager to enhance and manage their equity compensation programs. The role demands a strong understanding of stock plan administration and compliance with legal regulations. You will collaborate with various departments to ensure the effective execution of stock options and grant processes. An ideal candidate will have over five years of experience, including managing international stock compensation, and possess a CET designation. Competitive salary and hybrid work environment offer flexibility.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in stock plan administration, equity compensation in multiple company environments.
• Experience managing international stock options and ESPP programs.
• Background in legal, accounting, or compliance fields is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage stock plans with legal and compliance oversight.
• Ensure accurate equity record-keeping and reporting.
• Enhance accessibility and equity in stock programs.

Skills

Stock plan administration

Equity compensation understanding

Compliance knowledge

Financial reporting experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Certified Equity Professional (CEP) designation

Job description

Job Overview

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make

The Stock Plan Manager role is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic and mission-driven company at a critical growth stage. In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring the integrity, compliance, and equity of our stock-based compensation programs while supporting employees’ understanding and access to these benefits. You will work cross-functionally with Legal, People (HR), Payroll, Accounting, FP&A, and Internal & External Audit teams to maintain and improve our stock plans and processes. Working alongside a Senior Stock Plan Administrator, you will provide crucial support in managing and evolving our equity programs, including post-acquisition integration of target company stock plans and legacy grants. This role requires an equity‑conscious and legally focused approach to stock administration, ensuring compliance with relevant laws, tax regulations, and governance requirements while advancing equitable access to ownership opportunities for employees across the globe (eg - US, Canada, UK). As a strategic partner within a fast‑paced public company environment, you will bring attention to detail, adaptability, and a solutions‑oriented mindset to ensure the company’s stock‑based programs align with legal requirements, ethical considerations, and best practices in equity compensation.

In This Role, You Will

• Manage Stock Plans with Legal & Compliance Oversight
  • Execute transactions involving stock options, RSU vesting, and ESPP purchases in close collaboration with Legal, HR, and Finance.
  • Ensure compliance with SEC, IRS, SOX, and global securities laws, as well as internal governance policies.
  • Monitor and interpret changing regulatory requirements that impact equity compensation programs.
• Ensure Accurate Equity Record-Keeping & Reporting
  • Oversee and ensure database integrity and accurate record‑keeping of stock plan data using our stock plan platform.
  • Reconcile equity transaction records between stock administration, HR, and payroll systems to ensure data accuracy.
  • Support financial reporting, audits, and tax compliance efforts related to equity compensation.
• Enhance Accessibility & Equity in Stock Programs
  • Manage the expansion of stock‑based compensation programs internationally, ensuring fair and legally compliant implementation across different jurisdictions.
  • Support corporate transactions, including M&A, with a focus on integrating stock plans equitably and transparently.
  • Educate employees on stock benefits, tax implications, and plan participation to promote financial literacy and equitable access.

The Experience You’ll Need

• 5+ years of experience in stock plan administration, with a strong understanding of equity compensation in both startup and public company environments.
  • OR experience in accounting with equity experience
  • OR paralegal with equity experience
• Experience managing international public company stock options, RSUs, and ESPP programs
• Background in legal, accounting, or compliance fields is a plus.
• Experience supporting corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions.
• Knowledge of SOX compliance and financial reporting related to stock compensation.
• Completed Certified Equity Professional (CEP) designation preferred.

Working Location & Compensation

This position is based at our US headquarters located in Salt Lake City, UT or at our office in New York City, New York. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend at least 50% of their time working from 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 $106,000 $153,300 (USD). 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.

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. 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 Toronto, Montréal, New York, London, Oxford area, and the San Francisco Bay area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect onX (formerly Twitter)andLinkedIn.

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 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.