The Impact You'll Make:

We're seeking a Global People Technology & Architecture Lead for our global HR technology ecosystem. This role owns HiBob configuration, workforce analytics, system integrations, compliance, and AI-enabled innovation across the People function. You will ensure our People infrastructure is scalable, intelligent, and built to support a rapidly evolving scientific and technical workforce across the US, UK, and Canada.

This is a high-impact role for a systems thinker who blends hands-on technical expertise with strategic workforce insight. Our ability to move faster in decoding biology depends on having the right talent, supported by the right systems. This role ensures Recursion's People technology ecosystem is scalable, insight-driven, compliant, and aligned to our ambitious growth.
In this role, you will:

• Serve as functional and technical owner of HiBob across Core HR, Compensation, Talent, and Workforce Planning, and technical owner of Greenhouse, PAVE, Bridge and other people technology tools
• Lead system enhancements, design, and vendor management
• Assist in driving tech stack optimization and scalable system architecture in partnership with IT and Finance
• Identify and implement AI and automation solutions that streamline workflows and enhance our manager and employee experiences
• Build intelligent systems that elevate decision-making and operational efficiency.
• Translate workforce data into actionable insights that inform organizational design and capacity planning, while developing dashboards and advanced reporting
• Oversee integrations across HRIS, payroll, benefits, and enterprise systems, while maintaining data integrity, audit readiness, and global compliance standards.

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:

• 8+ years leading HRIS, People Analytics, and HR technology initiatives in scaling, multi-entity organizations
• Proven experience implementing AI-enabled people tools end-to-end, including vendor selection, business case development, data readiness, change management, and post-launch optimization
• Deep hands-on expertise in HiBob, including workflow configuration, permissions architecture, lifecycle automation, compensation cycles, reporting, and global system optimization
• Strong techno-functional knowledge across workforce planning, compensation, headcount forecasting, talent management, and org design, with the ability to translate People strategy into scalable systems
• Experience designing and managing integrations across HR tech stacks (ATS, payroll, equity, engagement, finance), including APIs, middleware, data mapping, and reconciliation
• Advanced reporting and data modeling skills, with the ability to partner with leaders on executive dashboards, headcount/attrition analytics, compensation analysis, and workforce forecasting, with a strong focus on data integrity
• Experience with HR systems governance, including SOX (as applicable), GDPR/CCPA compliance, audit support, access management, and data quality standards.
• Ability to operate strategically and tactically, owning multi-year HR systems roadmaps while remaining hands-on with configuration, testing, troubleshooting, and stakeholder enablement

Working Location & Compensation:

Making NYC your home base is ideal; however, we will consider remote work for this position. We ask that remote employees commit to regular on-site visits for routine work and departmental events.

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 $153,300 to $226,600 (USD). You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

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