The Impact You’ll Make

Recursion is leading an era of autonomous science – iterating across the discovery process, leveraging machine learning and agents built-for-purpose to uncover novel insights across biology and chemistry, fueling our clinical-stage pipeline. As the Senior Product Manager for Agentic Science, you will sit at the intersection of drug discovery and AI, serving as the critical translator between our scientific teams and the agentic systems they depend on. Your primary focus will be on outcomes: ensuring our agents impact Recursion’s pipeline through demonstrably accelerating discovery.

This role is not about maintaining a static roadmap; it is about navigating the frontier of a rapidly evolving field. You will partner closely with drug discovery scientists to understand their workflows, translate their needs into agent task definitions, and design and maintain the benchmarks that -ensure our agents are driving value. As the field evolves rapidly, you will help the team distinguish real scientific progress from superficially promising results.

In this role, you will:

• Champion Benchmarking for Agentic Science: Drive alignment across scientific and technical teams around evaluation frameworks that measure agent performance against scientifically meaningful outcomes, continuously refining them as the field evolves.
• Drive Outcome-Focused Product Development: Keep the team anchored to what matters: building agents that meaningfully advance drug discovery programs, not just executing tasks.
• Evangelize the "Human-in-the-loop" Evolution: Work with scientific stakeholders to define interfaces where humans review, validate, and shape agent reasoning, ensuring our scientists evolve from "operators" to "architects" of discovery.
• Monitor the Competitive Benchmark Landscape: Track how leading organizations across pharma AI, biotech, and foundation model research are measuring agentic performance. Ensure Recursion's evaluation frameworks stay calibrated against external standards, so our benchmarks reflect genuine scientific progress rather than internally optimized metrics.

The Team You’ll Join 

You will join a cross-functional team of software engineers, data scientists, AI/ML scientists and drug discovery biologists and chemists who build the technical bedrock that enables autonomous science, including agent orchestration, guardrails, and the connectivity between our digital and physical assets. You will work closely with the Discovery teams (the users of these agents), the AI Research teams (who build cutting-edge models), and our automated biology and chemistry lab teams (who generate the data that feeds into the models).

The Experience You’ll Need

• Background in Drug Discovery or AI-driven Science: You have direct experience working in drug discovery, biotech, or AI-driven scientific research. Ideally, you will have worked hands-on with agentic systems (or agents) in a scientific context. You can credibly partner with PhD-level scientists and translate between scientific goals and technical systems without losing fidelity on either side.
• Fluency in Modern AI: You don't need to be an engineer, but you follow the AI landscape closely and understand how LLMs and agentic systems actually work in practice. Bonus points if you've benchmarked an agent(s) or worked hands-on with agentic tools, even outside a formal work context.
• Experimentation-First Mindset: You have a natural instinct for working through rapid prototyping cycles, whether in a product, research, or scientific context. You'd rather run a quick experiment than write a long spec.
• Systems Thinking: You can hold the big picture in mind while working in the details. You think naturally about how multiple agents interact, where they hand off to each other, and where humans need to be in the loop to catch errors, validate outputs, or make judgment calls that agents can't.

Communication & Influence: Strong written and oral skills to align diverse stakeholders (PhDs in Biology, ML and software engineers, AI Researchers) around a unified technical vision.

Working Location & Compensation:

This is an office-based, hybrid position at one of our offices in either Salt Lake City, Utah or New York City, New York. Employees are expected to work in the office at least 50% of the time.

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 $142,500 - $220,500. You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package. 

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About Us

AfterShip, a Great Place to Work Certified company, is transforming the global eCommerce landscape. Founded in 2012, AfterShip is a post-purchase SaaS company on a mission to build the world’s leading automation platform for ecommerce merchants.

AfterShip unifies shipping & labels, order tracking, AI predictive delivery, and returns management into one system—giving merchants a single place to manage and automate everything that happens after checkout. By centralizing these workflows, AfterShip enables merchants to reduce customer support inquiries, deliver a more reliable and engaging customer experiences, and unlock incremental revenue at every post-purchase touchpoint.

AfterShip integrates seamlessly with ecommerce platforms including Shopify and TikTok Shop, and connects with more than 1,200 carriers worldwide. Today, over 20,000 businesses—including Samsung, Gymshark, Vivino, Harry’s, Mous, and Rakuten—rely on AfterShip to turn every post-purchase moment into an opportunity to build trust, reduce costs, and drive repeat purchases.

Built for a global market from day one, AfterShip operates with an engineering-driven, internationally distributed team. The company employs more than 450 people across 8 offices, spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, and representing over 20 cities worldwide.

Your Mission: 

We are evolving how we sell. As we sharpen our ICP and move upmarket, Sales Engineering is no longer just a post-discovery support function; it is a critical driver of deal quality, demo experience, and ultimately, revenue.

Your mission is to build and lead a high-performing Sales Engineering team that actively helps win deals. You will operate as a hands-on player-coach, stepping directly into strategic opportunities to elevate demos, shape deal strategy, and improve close rates. At the same time, you will scale the function, raising the bar on performance, building repeatable processes, and strengthening how we partner with Sales, Product, and Product Marketing.

This role sits at the center of Sales, Product, and Customer Success, with direct impact on how we position value to Mid-Market and Enterprise customers. You will report into Sales leadership and collaborate closely with AEs, PMM, and Product teams. This is a highly collaborative role that requires strong presence during core working hours. Strong preference for candidates based in Toronto or Utah.

What You’ll Do: 

• Increase win rates: Improve demos, objection handling, and value positioning to drive stronger deal outcomes
• Be a player-coach: Step into high-impact deals, run demos, and coach AEs/SEs in real time
• Elevate demo quality: Build repeatable, compelling, and use-case-driven demo frameworks tied to business value
• Raise team performance: Coach the team on discovery, storytelling, and technical depth while setting a high bar for execution
• Build and scale the team: Hire and develop strong SEs to support Mid-Market and Enterprise growth
• Improve sales execution: Identify friction in the sales cycle and implement scalable process improvements
• Stay close to product: Maintain deep product fluency and translate features into clear customer value
• Influence roadmap: Bring structured field insights to Product and PMM to improve positioning and UX
  
  

Who We're Looking For:

• Experienced SE leader: 3+ years in Sales Engineering / Solutions Engineering, with 1+ years of management experience in a B2B SaaS environment
• Player-coach operator: Hands-on in deals with a proven track record of improving win rates, elevating demo quality, and driving revenue impact across Mid-Market and Enterprise segments
• Strategic builder: Able to lead the strategy, planning, and execution of the Sales Engineering function while building scalable processes and raising the performance bar
• High standards: Sets and enforces a high bar for demo quality, discovery, and technical storytelling across the team
• Technical + commercial translator: Strong ability to turn technical complexity into clear, compelling, customer-facing narratives that drive business value
• Team leader: Credible, respected leader who can coach, develop, and inspire a high-performing team
• AI-forward mindset: Actively leverages AI to improve workflows, demos, and team productivity; brings a strong point of view on how AI can enhance Sales Engineering
• Builder mentality: Naturally curious and experimental; someone who builds, tests, and iterates
• High energy & communication: Brings urgency, strong presence, and clear communication in both customer-facing and internal settings
• Highly collaborative: Works effectively cross-functionally with Sales, Product, and Marketing, and thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment

At AfterShip, we know great talent doesn’t always fit every requirement. If you’re passionate about our mission and believe you can make an impact, we encourage you to apply.

 
Why You Should Join Us: 

• Great Place to Work Certified: We’ve been recognized for our inclusive, values-driven culture that celebrates diversity and collaboration.
• Innovative & Inclusive Culture: Started by our software engineer-turned-CEO, AfterShip is built on curiosity, creativity, and collaboration. We’re a passionate, global team of problem solvers who put egos aside to innovate together. We take immense pride in fostering a culture that’s inclusive, which has allowed us to surround ourselves with the industry's most talented professionals.
• Ambitious Mission with Real Impact: Join us in transforming eCommerce by making buying and selling easier for everyone. It’s one of the most dynamic spaces in tech, with limitless opportunities to innovate and grow.
• Thrive & Grow: There’s no ceiling to what you can achieve or learn here. We’re committed to empowering your career while advancing together as a company.
• Flexible Work Setup: We’re a remote-first team, meaning by default that employees work from home or on a hybrid-flexible basis in our hub locations (i.e., Toronto, Austin, Barcelona). You’re empowered to choose a work setup that works best for you and your team. With flexible hours depending on your time zone, you’ll be able to have a schedule that fits your working style and the requirements of your role.

Perks:

• Competitive compensation
• Remote-first/hybrid-flexible work setups
• Healthcare coverage offered from day 1
• Retirement plans including company match
• Unlimited PTO
• Annual learning & wellness benefit
• Monthly book perk
• Career progression & professional development
• In-office lunch and commuter benefits for those located in our hub locations

Salary range for this role: USD $200,000+ OTE

We are an equal opportunity employer and provide accommodations upon request throughout the recruitment process, in accordance with local legislation. Please let us know if you require any support, and we’ll work with you to meet your needs.

We believe in hiring right over hiring fast. While timelines may vary, we’re looking to fill this role as soon as possible. 

Our hiring process uses AI to help with initial resume screening and to support interview note-taking. These tools help our team stay organized and fair, but all hiring decisions are made by people.

This job vacancy is a backfill position.