About the role
About us Forus is building an AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to accelerate new science to patients. Our platform automates the complexity between a doctor prescribing a medicine and a patient starting treatment, including insurance coverage, financial assistance, and supply chain navigation. We provide this support free to doctors and patients, helping them get life-changing medicine faster, cheaper, and easier. The resulting network enables biopharma companies to design better research, launch new drugs more effectively, and invest in harder-to-treat conditions. Forus has exceptional product-market fit and is growing rapidly through organic adoption: Accelerating scale: We already support patients across more than 80% of ZIP codes and partner with 5 of the 10 largest biopharma companies in the world. AI-native, durable model: Our business becomes stronger as AI improves, as every new doctor, patient, and partner makes the network more valuable. Backing to build for the long term: We raised $160M+ from leading investors to build an exceptional team and unlock the full scale of the opportunity. Our number one priority is scaling to market demand. We are looking for individuals who are high horsepower, high throughput, and hyper resourceful to help us increase capacity and grow. We move fast and need to move faster. If we succeed, science will be the only limit to medicine. All full-time roles are in person in New York.
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the role As a Strategic Product Manager at Forus, you will take on some of the company’s most important and ambiguous product problems before they have established teams, roadmaps, or obvious solutions. Your work may include building internal AI and automation products, creating new operational capabilities, developing the first version of a product for a new customer category, or incubating an entirely new business line. Some initiatives will become permanent product areas; others may be handed to an existing team once the problem has been understood and the initial solution is working. You will operate as a technical product generalist, moving fluidly between product strategy, software, data, operations, and commercial considerations. You will be expected to identify the real constraint, develop a practical solution, build or prototype where useful, and lead execution until the initiative produces a measurable outcome. Depending on the problem, you may work through a dedicated engineering team, lead a broader cross-functional group, or execute significant portions of the work yourself. This is a demanding role, with a high level of autonomy and responsibility. You will be expected to "act like an owner" and commit yourself to Forus' success. If you are low-ego, hungry to learn, and excited about intense, impactful work that drives both company growth and accelerated career progression, we want to hear from you. If you join, you will: Own high-priority zero-to-one initiatives that do not yet have an established product team or obvious solution Work across new customer categories, internal workflows, and emerging business lines to understand problems and determine what Forus should build Take initiatives from initial problem definition through prototyping, implementation, launch, measurement, and transition into a durable operating model Build early prototypes directly where useful, using data analysis, AI development tools, lightweight software, and operational experimentation to learn quickly Lead cross-functional execution across engineering, design, operations, commercial, clinical, and other teams without relying on formal authority Create the metrics, feedback loops, and operating mechanisms needed to determine whether an initiative is working and how it should evolve Help transition successful initiatives into permanent product teams, operating functions, or new business lines We’re looking for you if you have: Experience working in a product management, software engineering, or forward deployed role on a team that required outcome ownership (e.g., fast-growing startup, a 0 -> 1 business line at a high-performing organization) Track record of taking ambiguous, cross-functional problems and independently driving them through to measurable outcomes Technical judgment and the ability to reason about software, data, AI systems, and operational processes Hands-on experience using AI and technical tools to prototype, analyze, automate, or build rather than relying exclusively on specifications and engineering resources Strong written and verbal communication that allows you to be an effective participant in both internal debates and external relationships Track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals High NPS with your former teammates This is a list of ideal
