Senior Stock Plan Administrator

Senior Stock Plan Administrator

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Stock Plan Manager role is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic and mission-driven company at a critical growth stage. In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring the integrity, compliance, and equity of our stock-based compensation programs while supporting employees' understanding and access to these benefits. You will work cross-functionally with Legal, People (HR), Payroll, Accounting, FP&A, and Internal & External Audit teams to maintain and improve our stock plans and processes.

Working alongside a Senior Stock Plan Administrator, you will provide crucial support in managing and evolving our equity programs, including post-acquisition integration of target company stock plans and legacy grants. This role requires an equity-conscious and legally focused approach to stock administration, ensuring compliance with relevant laws, tax regulations, and governance requirements while advancing equitable access to ownership opportunities for employees across the globe (eg - US, Canada, UK).

As a strategic partner within a fast-paced public company environment, you will bring attention to detail, adaptability, and a solutions-oriented mindset to ensure the company's stock-based programs align with legal requirements, ethical considerations, and best practices in equity compensation.

In this role, you will :

• Manage Stock Plans with Legal & Compliance Oversight
• Execute transactions involving stock options, RSU vesting, and ESPP purchases in close collaboration with Legal, HR, and Finance.
• Ensure compliance with SEC, IRS, SOX, and global securities laws, as well as internal governance policies.
• Monitor and interpret changing regulatory requirements that impact equity compensation programs.
• Ensure Accurate Equity Record-Keeping & Reporting
• Oversee and ensure database integrity and accurate record-keeping of stock plan data using our stock plan platform.
• Reconcile equity transaction records between stock administration, HR, and payroll systems to ensure data accuracy.
• Support financial reporting, audits, and tax compliance efforts related to equity compensation.
• Enhance Accessibility & Equity in Stock Programs
• Manage the expansion of stock-based compensation programs internationally, ensuring fair and legally compliant implementation across different jurisdictions.
• Support corporate transactions, including M&A, with a focus on integrating stock plans equitably and transparently.
• Educate employees on stock benefits, tax implications, and plan participation to promote financial literacy and equitable access.

The experience you'll need :

Working location & compensation :

This position is based at our US headquarters located in Salt Lake City, UT or at our office in New York City, New York. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend at least 50% of their time working from the office.

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 $106,000 to $153,300 (USD). You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

The values we hope you share :

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 leading the space by decoding biology to radically improve lives. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously generate one of the world's largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly and massive computational scale owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.

Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montral, New York, London, Oxford area, and the San Francisco Bay area.

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.