Associate General Counsel, Business Development

The Impact You’ll Make

You will drive key partnerships and transactions that advance Recursion’s mission to decode biology to radically improve lives. These partnerships and ongoing support of key alliances will ensure Recursion continues to set the bar in significant collaborations within the Techbio industry. 

In this role, you will:

• Help to craft win-win partnerships that accelerate Recursion’s mission, driving the company forward and setting new industry standards
• Partner with the Business Development team to align to business priorities while protecting the company’s interests
• Lead the execution of term sheets and definitive agreements across research collaborations, technology licensing, asset licensing, and other complex transactions; conducting diligence, reviewing, interpreting, and negotiating terms, in strategic alignment with the Business Development leadership and broader Company goals
• Support pre-existing collaborations in concert with alliance management through ongoing contract interpretation; drafting amendments as needed; advising on contract compliance, including those provisions relating to data licenses and governance among partnerships
• Facilitate internal contract approval and stakeholder negotiation to resolve complex issues and assist in disputes (escalating complex legal and factual issues to the appropriate internal parties, educating stakeholders on contract term implications). Communicate with business units to ensure all obligations are being met (e.g., milestones, deliverables, invoicing etc.).
• Work with Intellectual Property to support its strategic IP filing strategy, prosecution and maintenance as it pertains to business development
• Serve as a subject matter authority on business development and alliance management matters within the Law Department and collaborate with other legal functions as needed (e.g., Corporate Governance, Intellectual Property, Compliance, Data Privacy and Governance, Litigation and Products/Regulatory Law group)

The Team You’ll Join 

You will join a high-functioning team of expert lawyers, each working to advance the mission of Recursion. While the legal team members each have defined areas of expertise and support, they regularly connect to support each other in work and communication as well as professional development. Your role specifically will partner collaboratively with the Business Development team, which includes Alliance Management.  Both groups operate at a fast-pace with open lines of communication and transparent strategic imperatives.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Significant experience supporting a broad corporate practice including licensing, contracting, and other relevant transactional experience in the US life sciences sector at a reputable law firm and, preferably, also within an in-house legal environment
• Juris Doctor with active bar membership 
• In-house experience at a large pharmaceutical or public biotech company is a plus
• Experience, or demonstrated interest, in the application of technology or AI in life sciences a plus
• A member in good standing of at least one state bar with the ability to practice law in Utah as in-house counsel  
• Substantial experience and demonstrated technical excellence in general corporate matters, issue spotting and resolution, analytical thinking, and steering cross-functional groups to consensus, including through unique, urgent situations where little precedent or guidance exists
• The ability to provide timely, well-informed, practical risk-based advice that facilitates business decision-making in alignment with strategic objectives
• Attention to detail, with excellent communication, analytical, and project management abilities
• Accountable, dependable, and self-motivated for continuous improvement of company templates, policies, and processes
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced, early-stage company environment, with the ability to work independently and apply good business and legal judgment in assessing compliance issues
• Aptitude for maintaining strong working cross-functional relationships
• Practical, creative, and proactive problem-solving skills

Working Location:

This position is based at our office located in Salt Lake City or New York preferably. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time per week in office. 

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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: $248,000
• Skilled: $275,000 
• Expert: $303,000 

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.

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.