Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

Recursion is a leading TechBio company decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Reporting to the Chief Comms Officer, the Manager of Communications will be a strong storyteller and tactical teammate who drives and executes initiatives across external communications, including writing press releases, executing on press, disclosure, and social media campaigns, and supporting web content to effectively communicate our company’s mission, milestones, and initiatives to various stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will be able to work both independently and as part of the Corporate Communications team to understand highly complex scientific and technical information and craft it into compelling narratives that illustrate Recursion’s leadership in TechBio for a multitude of audiences.  

Specifically, you will:

  • Partner with communications team members and our creative agency to drive the development and execution of owned content in support of our overarching strategy and campaigns, including videos, written materials, and other creative assets
  • Develop materials for and coordinate external announcements and quarterly earnings, including press release upload & distribution, website updates, and other supporting materials
  • Manage and grow Recursion’s social media channels, including drafting copy, supporting creative asset development, posting, community management, reporting, with strategic direction from Comms Leadership Team 
  • Manage Recursion’s Communications Playbook, ensuring the latest messaging, stats, company materials and guidance are provided to employees
  • Manage Recursion’s tracker of events - both internal and external. 

Location:

Join us at our HQ located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Relocation is available for candidates not local to the area. 

The Team You’ll Join 

You will be part of Recursion’s dynamic and fast-paced communications team that collectively oversees internal and external communications, media relations, content creation, events, awards, and environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives. 

What You’ll Need

  • Bachelor’s degree, preferably in communications, journalism, or a related discipline with  at least 4+ years of experience in a public relations agency or corporate communications/marketing environment. 
    • Experience in the pharmaceutical and/or biotech industry preferred but not required 
  • Demonstrated experience in driving strategic communication programs, providing valuable and results-oriented counsel to internal stakeholders at all levels.
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal, graphical, written, with a keen sense of how to connect with people and build trust.
  • Passion for the company mission and vision of using technology to industrialize drug discovery
  • Knowledge of biology/life sciences and/or artificial intelligence/machine learning is a plus
  • Strongly encouraged: knowledge of the social media landscape and strategies to attract new followers and keep them engaged with strong content

How You’ll be Supported

  • Access to ample background and educational materials that provide necessary context on Recursion’s platform, approach, strategy, culture, and science
  • Creative team to help support asset creation
  • Ability to learn from a highly cross-functional team of diverse subject matter experts
  • Work in a culture that encourages being bold, taking smart risks, challenging conventions and trying experiments to push the boundaries of how we engage and inspire our audiences 

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:

  • Developing: $117,000
  • Skilled: $130,000
  • Expert: $143,000

To learn more about our level within levels, click here.

You will also be eligible for bonuses and equity compensation + our comprehensive benefits package for United States based candidates. The range displayed on each job posting reflects target ranges for US new hire salaries and is determined by job, level, and market factors.  

During the interview selection process, you will connect with a Talent Acquisition Partner who will be your advocate and ally to ensure you receive the appropriate compensation that meets your needs for your skills, experience, and relevant education/training, while also reviewing our very competitive total rewards package.

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The Values That We Hope You Share:

  • We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
  • We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
  • We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement, making time and space to recover. 
  • Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity, but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
  • We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.

Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here.

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. 

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.

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