Associate Director/Director of Biostatistics
London, England · New York, New York · Oxford, England · Salt Lake City, Utah · Toronto, Ontario
Your work will change lives. Including your own.
The Impact You’ll Make
Recursion is at the forefront of reimagining drug discovery through the integration of automated cell biology, high-dimensional and diverse data sets, and sophisticated analytics. We are seeking a forward-thinking Associate Director/Director of Biostatistics to provide statistical leadership and technical expertise to Recursion’s Oncology clinical pipeline as well as industrialization of statistical workflows with clinical development.
In this role, you will:
- Automatestatistical workflows for clinical trials such as trial design, statistical analysis plan and analysis reporting. Innovate and develop novel methods and tools to enhance biostatistics operations and drive the adoption of cutting-edge trial designs.
- Leadthe development and implementation of statistical strategies for oncology clinical studies.
- Provideexpert guidance on design options, outcome measures, endpoint assessments, and sample size/power calculations during protocol development. Author statistical sections of protocols, clinical study reports (CSRs), regulatory documents, and statistical analysis plans (SAP) for CSRs and integrated summaries.
- Overseestatistical contributions to regulatory submissions and responses to inquiries and represent the company in interactions with health authorities.
- Managebiometrics vendors and contracted personnel, ensuring alignment with statistical methodologies and project objectives.
The Team You’ll Join
As Associate Director/Director of Biostatistics, you'll report directly to the Director of Biostatistics and will be a key member of the Biometrics Leadership Team. The Biometrics Team is an innovation-driven and execution-minded group of drug development professionals responsible for supporting Recursion's innovative science through novel trial design, data collection, integration, analysis, and enabling data-driven decision making.
The Experience You’ll Need
- PhD or MSc in Biostatistics, Statistics, with 8+ years of biostatistics experience in a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company, including 5+ years of serving as Lead Biostatistician across multiple therapeutic areas (Oncology preferred).
- Advanced expertise in statistical methods in innovative trial design and analysis, with a proven ability to conduct independent research and address complex statistical issues.
- Strong ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work under tight timelines.
- Strong proficiency in programming, preferably in R/R Shiny and Python.
- Deep understanding of GCP, ICH, CDISC, and other regulatory guidance and standards. Excellent project management skills, including the ability to oversee competing priorities and deliver high-quality work while ensuring adherence to data standards such as CDISC, SDTM, and ADaM, and relevant regulatory requirements.
- Experience with regulatory submissions in the US, Europe, and other global regions. Exceptional interpersonal and communications skills, with a proven ability to manage and resolve conflicts.
- Experience in oncology and rare disease clinical trials.
Working Location:
This position is ideally based at one of our offices located inSalt Lake City / New York City / Toronto / London / Oxford.Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time in the office. We will also consider remote work for this position in the US, UK or Canada. We ask that remote employees commit to regular on-site visits for routine work and departmental events.
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.
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.#J-18808-Ljbffr
