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Talent Acquisition & People Operations Leader | Passionate Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Champion

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make

Recursion is seeking a dynamic People Director, UK to play a pivotal role in leading and shaping our people strategy and operations within the UK and supporting our North American and EOR (employer of record) operations. Based in either our London or Milton Park site (with travel expected between both), you will be instrumental in driving initiatives that enhance the employee experience and ensure our people infrastructure, processes, and programs align with our ambitious mission and growth. You will develop and execute scalable, people-centric solutions, ensuring compliance and a positive employee experience across the UK, EU, Canada and US.

This role is for you if you are passionate about building and supporting high-performing teams, thrive on improving people processes with a human touch, excel at bringing clarity to complex situations, and enjoy the full scope of people operations and strategy in an international environment.

In This Role You Will

The Team You Will Join

Recursion’s People Team creates the conditions to enable and sustain high performing teams, and helps employees do the best work of their careers. We are talent scouts and partners, creating experiences and outcomes that support our employees and drive business success. We focus on scalable solutions that add value across geographies, while providing individual advisory partnership and support where it matters most. With a people + data approach, we ensure Recursion has the people, culture and operating dynamics to accelerate drug discovery and get medicines to patients faster.

Reporting directly to the Chief People Officer , you will be a key leader within the global People Operations & Experience team. The team's purpose is to establish a solid foundation, providing overarching support to the wider People team and the business. Focused on the employee experience, payroll, benefits, compliance, and HR systems, they create efficient, scalable solutions that constantly improves what it feels like to work at Recursion. With a data-driven and people-first approach, they align people operations with company goals, fostering a productive and engaging workplace culture. You will play a crucial role in building a scalable, future-proof People infrastructure.

The Experience You’ll Need

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Working Location & Compensation:

This position can be based at one of our offices located in London or Milton Park . Regular travel between both sites will be required.

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: £109,700 - £144,000 GBP . 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

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 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 or connect on X (formerly Twitter) 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.

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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Location:
London
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£144,000,000
Job Type:
FullTime

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