[Hiring] Senior Counsel, Privacy and Compliance @Recursion

Role Description

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

Recursion is currently seeking a Counsel role specializing in data privacy and compliance work to support the expansion of its clinical trials and compliance infrastructure. The role will have the opportunity to maintain and shape a privacy-by-design infrastructure through:

• Careful vendor onboarding
• Data mapping
• Developing fit-for-purpose policies
• Negotiating privacy terms in transactions

The role will also support the growth of the compliance function within the Legal department through:

• Careful right-sizing of guidance
• Implementation and training
• Close partnerships across functions

The ideal candidate is business-minded, collaborative, and comfortable translating privacy and regulatory requirements into actionable guidance for cross-functional teams. The candidate will be fluent in international data privacy regulations and requirements as well as corporate compliance familiarity with biotech or pharmaceutical companies. The role will collaborate with different groups across the company, with a particular focus on:

• Clin Tech
• Clinical Operations
• Human Resources

The successful candidate must use a practical, solutions-focused approach to help accelerate the Company’s goals through the compliance function.

In this role, you will:

Data Privacy

• Develop and maintain infrastructure to comply with varying data privacy regulations in Europe and new countries in support of clinical trial plans
• Review and negotiate data protection terms, DPAs, vendor agreements, customer agreements, security addenda, and other contracts from a privacy standpoint
• Monitor and advise on privacy and compliance developments, including U.S. state privacy laws, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, sector-specific privacy rules, and emerging AI and cybersecurity requirements
• Support incident response, data subject rights requests, privacy impact assessments, transfer impact assessments, and regulatory inquiries
• Support vendor onboarding and maintenance for vendors processing personal data
• Maintain the company’s Record of Processing Activity
• Counsel on privacy-by-design reviews, data mapping, vendor onboarding, AI/data use cases, and new geographical expansions
• Draft policies and perform trainings to support data protection compliance

Compliance

• Assist the Legal team in drafting and implementing corporate compliance policies, training and follow-up
• Partner closely with Human Resources and other functions to identify needs for policies or guidance
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders on creating a “right size” compliance function that enables business growth while protecting against risk

Qualifications

• At least four years of experience in data privacy counseling in the biotech or pharmaceutical industry, at a law firm or preferably in-house
• Strong working knowledge of privacy and data protection laws, including U.S. state privacy laws, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and related regulatory frameworks
• Experience reviewing and negotiating privacy, security, and data protection provisions in commercial agreements
• Ability to provide clear, practical advice in a fast-moving business environment
• Strong judgment, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple projects independently
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• IPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, or similar privacy certification preferred
• Experience building or scaling privacy and compliance programs in-house preferred
• Admitted to practice in at least one state and eligible to practice law in Utah as in-house counsel

Requirements

• Making SLC or NYC your home base is ideal; however, we will consider remote work for this position
• Remote employees must commit to regular on-site visits for routine work and departmental events
• Estimated current annual base range for this role is $251,900 to $309,760 (USD)
• Eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Annual bonus
• Equity compensation

Company Description

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.

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.