Vice President, Head of IP and Strategic Transactions at Recursion, a clinical-stage biotech company. Leads patent strategy, portfolio management, and complex life sciences transactions including licensing and collaborations. Reports to legal leadership and manages IP team.
The Impact You’ll Make
Recursion is seeking a Head of Intellectual Property and Strategic Transactions to shape the company’s IP strategy and support high-value business development, licensing, collaboration, and platform transactions. We recognize that intellectual property is core to our remit: advancing a portfolio of differentiated medicines across wholly owned and partnered programs, enabled by an AI-native platform integrating biology, chemistry, and clinical development. The opportunity is vast and crucial, working within the intersection of law, science, and technology to drive the future of therapeutic discovery.
The ideal candidate has deep experience with pharmaceutical patent strategy and complex life sciences transactions and is comfortable operating in a fast-moving, science-driven environment. The successful candidate will collaborate with colleagues on IP protection for chemical matter, platform technology, and other discoveries as well as forming deep partnerships with our Business Development and Alliance Management teams. The role must possess integrity and sound judgment, be an analytical and creative thinker, have exceptional oral and written communication skills, and be proficient in time-management and task prioritization.
Patent Strategy & Oversight
Strategic Transactions
The Team You’ll Join
You will be joining a dynamic team of attorneys, stock administration professionals, and an IP paralegal, who you will manage. The team works closely and collaboratively with one another on overall legal strategy, departmental budget, projects, and professional development. The team relies on a communicative and supportive atmosphere to enable nimble advice and prioritization aligned with business goals.
The Experience You’ll Need
Working Location & Compensation:
This is an office-based position at our offices located in New York City, New York. Employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time.
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 $387,200 to $495,000 (USD). You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.
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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 decoding biology to radically improve lives. Recursion is advancing a portfolio of differentiated investigational medicines across its wholly owned and partnered pipeline in oncology, rare disease, neuroscience, immunology, and other therapeutic areas with significant unmet need. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, an AI-native, end-to-end drug discovery and development platform integrating biology, chemistry, and clinical development into a unified intelligence system. Powered by proprietary multimodal data, purpose-built AI models, and bilingual teams fluent in both science and AI, the Recursion OS is designed to translate complex science into medicines that matter — faster, better, and at scale — for patients who are waiting.
Recursion’s platform infrastructure is anchored in Salt Lake City, Utah and Milton Park, Oxfordshire, where its automated biology and chemistry laboratories generate proprietary data at industrial scale. Recursion also maintains offices in New York, Montréal, and London, three global hubs for talent and leadership at the intersection of AI and scientific innovation. Learn more at www.recursion.com, or connect on X 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.