Reward Specialist (Fixed Term Contract - 7 Months)

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You'll Make

At Recursion, we are decoding biology to radically improve lives. To accelerate our mission, we need exceptional people doing the best work of their careers in an environment that is inclusive, innovative, and purpose-driven. 

We’re looking for a Reward Analyst to join us for a 7 month contract to take stewardship of our global compensation programs. You will be the engine behind our Role and Reward (R&R) cycles, ensuring our roles are benchmarked appropriately, the systems are setup in a way that is intuitive and useful for our leaders, and comms helps our people understand what happened to their compensation and why.This is a high-impact opportunity for a data-driven reward professional who is excited to build tech-enabled, AI-forward people programs that help our teams and our mission thrive.

Please Note: This is a fixed-term contract for 7 months. You will be eligible for Recursion benefits with the exception of equity and bonus.

In this role, you will:

• Lead Global Reward Cycles: Own the end-to-end execution of our "Role and Reward" (R&R) cycles, managing salary and bonus reviews that align outcomes with our goals.
• Architect Tech-Enabled Systems: Contribute to the design and development of our compensation systems and HRIS tools, leveraging technology to automate workflows and drive "AI-forward" reward operations.
• Drive curated Benchmarking: Conduct deep-dive market analysis using biotech-specific intelligence, as well as being creative and thoughtful about alternative data sources to ensure Recursion remains competitive across our US, UK, and Canadian hubs.
• Equity & LTI Planning: Partner with our Stock Services team to ensure seamless administration and communication of our equity programs, ensuring our employees understand the long-term value of their stake in Recursion’s success.
• Elevate Job Architecture: Lead job evaluation and leveling exercises across all our  functions, ensuring internal equity and creating growth pathways for our diverse talent.
• Deliver Data-Informed Impact: Partner with internal teams and leaders to provide compensation analytics and modeling that align our people strategy with business priorities and organizational growth.

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.

The Experience You’ll Need:

• 4+ years of experience leading progressive compensation strategies in high-growth biotech or tech-forward environments
• Experience managing end-to-end global Role & Reward cycles, including merit, bonus, and market benchmarking at scale
• Demonstrated ability to apply systems thinking to HRIS workflows and optimize tools for intuitive, scalable leader experiences
• Advanced analytical and modeling skills, with the ability to translate complex compensation data into clear, executive-ready insights
• Deep expertise in equity-based compensation (Options, RSUs), including modeling value and communicating impact to diverse audiences
• Experience leading job architecture and leveling initiatives to ensure internal equity and scalable career pathways
• Proficiency in leveraging AI and modern People Tech (ideally HiBob and Pave) to automate workflows and scale reward operations

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The Values We Hope You Share:

• We act boldly with integrity. We are unconstrained in our thinking, take calculated risks, and push boundaries, but never at the expense of ethics, science, or trust. 
• We care deeply and engage directly. Caring means holding a deep sense of responsibility and respect - showing up, speaking honestly, and taking action.
• We learn actively and adapt rapidly. Progress comes from doing. We experiment, test, and refine, embracing iteration over perfection.
• We move with urgency because patients are waiting. Speed isn’t about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
• We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability, we enable trust and autonomy—leaders take accountability for decisive action, and teams own outcomes together. 
• We are One Recursion. True cross-functional collaboration is about trust, clarity, humility, and impact. Through sharing, we can be greater than the sum of our individual capabilities.

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.

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