Senior Director of Clinical Development, Infectious Disease

Summary

Join Recursion, a leading clinical-stage TechBio company, as a physician to champion advanced computational approaches in clinical development. You will significantly contribute to clinical plans, trial design, and execution, while defining disease area strategies and ensuring ethical conduct. This role involves integrating AI/ML tools to optimize trials, partnering with data science teams, and managing relationships with external stakeholders. You will also be responsible for drafting regulatory documents and exploring opportunities for process simplification. The ideal candidate will have an MD with 5+ years of clinical development experience in a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company, specifically in infectious disease. Recursion offers a competitive salary, bonuses, equity compensation, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Ability and interest to support programs outside of infectious disease is desired

Benefits

• Bonuses and equity compensation
• Comprehensive benefits package