Senior Director of Clinical Development, Infectious Disease
London, England
Your work will change lives. Including your own.
At Recursion, our mission is to industrialize and transform the development of medicines by integrating data-driven insights and advanced analytics throughout the entire development lifecycle. We are seeking an experienced, collaborative, and strategic physician to champion the use of advanced computational approaches in clinical development and help redefine traditional paradigms of drug development. In this role, you will help us realize a future-oriented, technology-driven vision for our program in infectious disease, and across other therapeutic areas, by defining and executing our strategy and ensuring that resources are applied in alignment with these strategic priorities.
In This Role You Will :
- Provide significant input on clinical plans, trial design, clinical trial execution, medical governance, at a program level, and ensure appropriate and adequate clinical resourcing.
- Define disease area strategies and priorities, ensure patient focus and robust evidence package to support successful filings, approvals and commercialization and patient access. Accountable for the ethical conduct of studies in the infectious disease portfolio.
- Operate as a single point of accountability for medical governance at the clinical level. Ensure adequate clinical oversight of clinical research initiatives and provide a global and objective viewpoint of safety and efficacy by cultivating and sustaining a culture of openness and transparency with patient wellbeing as the key driver in decision-making.
- Evaluate, integrate, and scale AI / ML tools to optimize trial design, enhance patient recruitment strategies, and drive real-time data analysis. Foster a deep partnership with data science teams to seamlessly embed real-world evidence, big data, and advanced analytics into clinical decision-making, ensuring smarter, faster, and more adaptive clinical development.
- Responsible for drafting and reviewing medical aspects of core study and regulatory documents (i.e., protocols, investigator brochures, INDs, briefing documents, etc.).
- Manage and maintain strong, effective relationships with key external stakeholders and partners (i.e., Key Opinion Leaders and investigators, consultants, patient advocacy groups and other external clinical trial participants) to ensure that the primary goals of the clinical development programs are met.
- Responsible for exploring opportunities for simplification, ensuring that this area is as effective and as efficient as possible to get drugs to patients faster.
The Team You’ll Join
In this role, you’ll report directly to the Chief Medical Officer. The Development Team is an empowered, execution-minded group of clinical development professionals responsible for translating and industrializing Recursion’s innovative science to patients. Our team leverages cutting-edge clinical technology to accelerate drug development, optimize trial design, and enhance patient outcomes.
The Experience You’ll Need
- MD required, with 5+ years’ experience in Clinical Development in a Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology company.
- Experience in design, execution, and monitoring of clinical trials in infectious disease is required; experience working in C.Diff is valuable. Ability and interest to support programs outside of infectious disease is desired.
- Understands the entirety of R&D across the development / commercial life cycle to allow impact across all functions: discovery, late-stage development, regulatory, manufacturing, and commercial.
- Capable of prioritizing tasks and delivering on deadlines with attention to detail.
- Demonstrated experience integrating AI / ML technologies into clinical development strategies.
- Effective skills directed toward driving collaboration, achieving results, influencing, and resolving conflicts across internal and external stakeholders.
- Highly motivated, decisive, and results-oriented individual who is proactive, resourceful, and efficient with the flexibility and creativity to excel in and contribute to a rapidly growing drug discovery and development company.
Location : This position is ideally based at our office located in New York City but we will also consider candidates located within commuting distance to Salt Lake City, Toronto, London and Oxford, UK. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time in the office.
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.