Life Sciences Deployment Strategist

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 85% of ZIP codes and partner with 9 of top 15 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 $300M+ 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.

Life Sciences Deployment Strategist

About the role

As a Life Sciences Deployment Sttrategist at Forus, you will own strategic partnerships with some of the largest biopharma companies in the world, the manufacturers developing the most meaningful medicines across the therapeutic areas we serve. Every partnership you build has one purpose: helping more patients start and stay on the treatments their doctors prescribe.

You will run the business reviews that show partners the impact Forus has on their patients and prescribers, structure and negotiate agreements, and define where a deeper partnership would reach more patients. For new medicines, you will work alongside manufacturer launch teams to design the access, affordability, and distribution programs that determine whether a launch reaches patients quickly. You will also work directly with our Head of Life Sciences and CEO on decisions that balance speed of growth with long-term alignment across our data, technology, and provider network.

This role requires holding two things at once: being a consultative partner our clients trust and representing Forus' network, doctors, and patients with conviction. Success requires structured problem-solving, strong execution, commercial judgment, and a willingness to take ownership wherever the partnership needs it most.

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 end-to-end relationships with a portfolio of life sciences partners, from executive sponsors to brand, market access, and patient services teams

• Lead recurring business reviews that quantify Forus' impact on patient access, time to therapy, and prescriber adoption, and set the agenda for what comes next

• Structure, negotiate, and manage agreements and renewals that create mutual value for partners, Forus, and the doctors and patients we serve

• Define and drive opportunities to expand partnerships into new brands, therapeutic areas, and programs where Forus can help more patients

• Partner with manufacturer launch teams to design and orchestrate the access, affordability, and distribution components of new drug launches

• Drive development of new innovative product offerings to bring to our life science partners

• Translate partner needs into clear requirements for product, engineering, and operations, and bring Forus' network insights back to partners

• Build the analyses, account plans, and operating cadence that guide how we invest in and grow each partnership

We'll be most excited if you have:

• 3-8 years owning client relationships and outcomes in a demanding environment, such as an engagement manager at a top consulting firm, a commercial or partnerships lead at a high-growth company, or a client lead in life sciences services

• Fluency in the biopharma commercial landscape, including brand strategy, market access, patient services, and drug launch, or the ability to build it quickly

• Demonstrated ability to structure and negotiate complex agreements and grow partnerships over time

• Judgment to represent your company's position with conviction while remaining a partner clients trust and want to work with

• Strong analytical thinking and comfort with complex data; at minimum, the role requires learning SQL and low-code tools

• 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 qualifications for this position. If you don't meet every single one of them, you should still consider applying! We’re excited to work with people from underrepresented backgrounds, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

Working with us

Forus is based in New York, with our full team working out of a beautiful and spacious office in SoHo. 

We run as a high-trust environment with high autonomy, which requires that everyone is fully competent and operates in line with our principles:

• Do the math. Be rigorous, assume nothing. Break problems down and reason from the ground up. Stay open to changing your mind.

• Resourceful optimism. Assume problems are solvable. Be audacious. Resist false constraints and push beyond the obvious before deciding.

• Spit it out. Speak directly, invite critique, avoid equivocation. We want right answers, not comfortable ones. All killer, no filler.

• Raise the bar. Hold a high standard for your pace and execution, and elevate the performance of the team around you. Mamba mentality.

• Fight for users. Start with users’ realities, not ours. Resist optimizing for internal convenience over user outcomes.
  

We provide competitive compensation with meaningful equity (for full-time employees). Everyone who joins will be a major contributor to our success, and we reflect this through ownership and pay.

We also provide rich benefits to ensure you can focus on creating impact (for full-time employees):

• Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.

• Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO) and 16 weeks of parental leave.

• 401K plan setup, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass.

• Lunch at the office every day and Dinner at the office after 6:30 pm.

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our company’s size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes equity, benefits, and other opportunities at Forus (for full-time employees). Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity.

Forus is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.