Director, Organizational Development & Effectiveness

Recursion • Salt Lake City, UT

15h • Hybrid

About The Position

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.
This role is a blend of systems thinker, coach, designer, change catalyst, and grounded practitioner. The right person for this role has advised on and led transformation from within an organization, believes in fit-for-purpose organizational design and exceptional employee experiences as drivers of business impact, and can turn workforce insights and future signals into tangible organizational prototypes that spark real change. They quickly understand what makes an organization unique — and know how to pull the right structural, cultural, and talent levers to make change real and successful.

Requirements

• Applying systems thinking to diagnose organizational health and design interventions that address root causes
• Partnering effectively with scientists, engineers, and business leaders to bridge disciplines and align diverse professional cultures
• Coaching senior technical and organizational leaders to improve or sustain their impact
• Leading large-scale organizational change and cultural transformation initiatives
• Influencing senior leaders, constructively challenge perspectives, and build trusted executive relationships
• Translating engagement data, performance metrics, and qualitative feedback into clear insights and actionable executive recommendations
• Communicating complex ideas with clarity and precision in both written and verbal formats
• Managing a Slack-intensive operating environment

Nice To Haves

• Even better if you have a Master’s or PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on team and organizational dynamics, diagnosing organizational health and effectiveness challenges, and identifying accelerants
• Advise leaders on their organizational design, team structures and workflows to meet business needs, establishing design principles, governance and change processes to support agility, consistency and transparency across functions
• Partner with the People Experience team to design, interpret, and socialize organizational health metrics (e.g., spans/layers, attrition, internal mobility, etc.) to inform interventions
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition team on strategic workforce planning, including identifying critical capabilities, gaps, and succession needs
• Strengthen Recursion’s leaders and leadership bench by incorporating our leadership expectations throughout the employee lifecycle - from hiring to development to performance assessment and career pathing.
• Own and evolve performance management by coaching senior leaders (1:1 and group), refining talent review and succession planning processes and actions, and building cross functional communities of leadership best practice

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director