Vice President, Medical Affairs

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Your work will change lives. Including your own. The Impact You'll Make At Recursion, we are decoding biology to radically improve lives. As Vice President, Medical Affairs, you will help shape how Recursion translates breakthrough science, clinical data, real-world evidence, and AI-enabled insights into meaningful impact for patients, clinicians, investigators, and health systems. You will build and lead the Medical Affairs strategy across Recursion's advancing clinical portfolio, with an initial focus on programs in areas of significant unmet need, including oncology, rare disease, immunology, and other priority therapeutic areas. This is a high-impact, cross-functional leadership role for a strategic medical affairs leader who can operate from early development through launch readiness, bring the external medical voice into portfolio decisions, and establish scalable capabilities for scientific engagement, evidence generation, medical communications, and medical excellence. In this role, you will: Develop and lead integrated Medical Affairs strategies for priority assets, including scientific narrative, evidence gaps, stakeholder engagement, publication strategy, medical education, advisory boards, field medical planning, and launch readiness. Provide Medical Affairs support on cross-functional asset teams, partnering with Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Development Sciences, HEOR/RWE, Biostatistics, Clinical Operations, Portfolio Strategy, Patient Advocacy, Communications, Legal/Compliance, and Business Development, where appropriate. Build evidence-generation plans that support asset differentiation, patient benefit, clinical adoption, and value demonstration, including real-world evidence, HEOR, epidemiology, natural history, burden of disease, treatment patterns, and outcomes-focused studies. Translate external insights from healthcare professionals, investigators, patient communities, payers, health systems, and scientific leaders into actionable recommendations for development strategy, trial design, endpoints, education needs, and evidence priorities. Lead scientific engagement strategy with key opinion leaders, digital opinion leaders, investigators, cooperative groups, patient advocacy organizations, professional societies, and other external stakeholders through compliant, high-quality scientific exchange. Lead congress and conference strategy for priority programs, including planning and execution for major scientific meetings such as ASCO, ESMO, AACR, AAN, and other relevant medical congresses; partner cross-functionally on abstracts, presentations, scientific narratives, medical booths, KOL engagement, and internal preparation. Partner with Recursion's data science, platform, and Decision Science teams to explore responsible use of AI-enabled approaches for medical insights, evidence synthesis, stakeholder mapping, scientific communication, and measurement of medical impact. Establish the medical communication strategy for assigned assets, including publications, congress abstracts and presentations, lexicon, scientific platform, FAQs, medical information content, and internal scientific training. As the portfolio matures, design and build a structured, scalable Medical Affairs organization, including fit-for-purpose capabilities across medical strategy, field medical, medical communications, medical information, evidence generation, congress planning, insights, and medical excellence. Establish governance, operating rhythms, vendor partnerships, performance metrics, and compliant processes that enable Medical Affairs to support Recursion's growth from clinical-stage development through potential launch readiness. The Team You'll Join You will join Recursion's Clinical Development organization, reporting to the Chief Medical Officer. The Clinical Development team is an empowered, execution-minded group responsible for translating Recursion's innovative science into medicines for patients. You will work closely with leaders across Development, Regulatory, Development Sciences, Clinical Operations, Data Science, Biology, Chemistry, Portfolio Strategy, Communications, Legal/Compliance, and future commercialization functions. Together, you will help ensure Recursion's clinical programs are informed by robust evidence, external medical insight, patient need, and the full potential of the RecursionOS. The Experience You'll Need Advanced clinical or scientific degree required; MD, DO, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent advanced degree strongly preferred 15+ years of biotech or pharmaceutical industry experience, including significant leadership experience in Medical Affairs Experience building and leading Medical Affairs strategy for clinical-stage or launch-stage assets, ideally in oncology, rare disease, immunology, or other specialty therapeutic areas. Proven ability to lead integrated evidence planning, including RWE, HEOR, epidemiology, burden-of-disease, natural histor

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