Talent Strategy Lead

About this 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.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The most important and most difficult part of building a successful company is assembling an exceptional team. In today's knife-fight market, talent density requires the same level of strategic focus and creativity as product development and go-to-market. As Talent Strategy Lead, you will work directly with our CEO to help make Forus one of the best companies in the world at identifying, attracting, and hiring extraordinary people.

You will help us develop recruiting as a go-to-market function: understanding the people and talent markets we most need to reach, developing a differentiated strategy for reaching them, and creating process that enables Forus to win them. Your work will span talent intelligence, targeted hunting, relationship-building, talent brand, candidate assessment, and personally driving our most important searches.

This is a high-impact tour of duty for an exceptional generalist, product builder, or strategist who wants to work on one of the most consequential problems inside a rapidly growing company. Prior recruiting experience is not required. We are looking for someone with excellent judgment, intellectual curiosity, creativity, and the drive to turn strategy into exceptional hires.

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:

- Work directly with the CEO and company leaders to determine which hires and talent markets could have the greatest impact on Forus

- Develop an original point of view on what exceptional performance looks like across critical functions, rather than relying primarily on credentials, titles, or conventional candidate profiles

- Build deep maps of important talent markets, companies, communities, and individual candidates, including people who are not actively looking for a new role

- Design creative strategies to identify and engage exceptional people through targeted communities, events, referrals, research, content, competitions, partnerships, and other channels

- Shape how Forus presents itself to different talent markets, translating the company’s mission, ambition, operating environment, and opportunities into a compelling and credible talent narrative

- Develop new approaches to evaluating talent where conventional interviews or credentials provide weak signal

- Build repeatable strategic playbooks that allow the broader recruiting team to apply what you learn across additional roles and talent markets

WE’RE LOOKING FOR YOU IF YOU HAVE:

- Have a track record of doing high-quality work in a demanding and talent-dense environment, whether as a founder, 0 -> 1 operator, investor, product manager, or in another high-performance role

- Exceptional judgment about people and evidence that you have identified, recruited, backed, hired, or chosen unusually strong people before others recognized them

- Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to understand what motivates a specific person and communicate why Forus may be the right place for them

- Enough technical and analytical fluency to understand unfamiliar roles quickly, evaluate evidence critically, work effectively with data, and test new tools or approaches

- High agency and creativity — when the obvious channels do not produce the right people, you create different channels

- A track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals

- High NPS https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/nps-calculator/ 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.

- Expand the solution space. Be…