Senior Counsel

Forus; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental insurance

One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, Kindy

Unlimited PTO & 16 weeks parentalleave

401K with FSA and commuter benefits

Daily office lunch and dinner

Job summary

Forus is seeking a Senior Counsel in New York to partner with stakeholders across the business and report to the General Counsel. You will own material commercial matters, contribute to product design, resolve operational challenges, and drive the legal strategy supporting rapid growth.

The role demands autonomy, fast-paced execution, and a willingness to act like an owner. If you are high-horsepower and eager to impact both growth and career trajectory, we want to hear from you.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of legal experience in commercial contracts and business counseling.
• Experience with healthcare and health-tech is strongly preferred; in-house or law-firm backgrounds are ideal.
• Significant privacy/healthcare regulatory matters experience (HIPAA/HITECH, data use/sharing, BAAs).
• Outstanding written and verbal communication translating legal concepts into strategy.

Responsibilities

• Advise stakeholders on legal and compliance matters across healthcare, marketing, privacy, and data governance.
• Draft and negotiate commercial agreements and develop playbooks, templates, and escalation guidance.
• Develop scalable legal guidance, policies, templates, and AI-enabled workflows for efficient decisions.
• Own and maintain core platform agreements, provider Terms of Service, privacy notices, and website terms.
• Lead day-to-day privacy and HIPAA counseling, including data mapping and privacy-request workflows.
• Partner with the compliance team to advance healthcare compliance per relevant guidance and risk assessments.

Skills

Commercial contracts

Business counseling

HIPAA/privacy

Legal writing

Education

J.D. degree

Job description

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.

About the role

As Senior Counsel at Forus, you will serve as a key legal partner to stakeholders across the business. You will report directly to the General Counsel and work on legal questions that contribute to the next phases of growth. You will own important commercial matters, contribute to product design, resolve operational challenges, and drive the legal strategy that helps the business move.

Forus is entering a defining stage. Demand is accelerating, our partnerships matter more, and our products and business models are evolving. The legal work is consequential, fast-moving, and often novel. 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:

• Advise stakeholders on legal and compliance matters across healthcare and clinical operations, marketing, privacy, and data governance.
• Draft and negotiate commercial agreements and develop related playbooks, templates, and escalation guidance.
• Develop scalable legal guidance, policies, templates, and AI-enabled workflows that enable efficient decision-making.
• Own and maintain Forus’s core platform agreements, including provider Terms of Service, privacy notices, and website terms, in alignment with product, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Lead day-to-day privacy and HIPAA counseling, including data mapping, privacy-request workflows, minimum-necessary practices, and partnership with Security on technical controls.
• Partner with the compliance team to advance Forus's healthcare compliance program, aligned with applicable OIG guidance, enterprise risk assessments, and Forus's evolving risk profile.

We're looking for you if you have:

• 6+ years of legal experience in commercial contracts and business counseling, J.D., active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
• Experience independently handling complex commercial matters. Healthcare and ideally health-tech experience is strongly preferred; law-firm and in-house experience is ideal.
• Meaningful experience with privacy and healthcare regulatory matters, including HIPAA/HITECH, data use and sharing, business associate agreements, and privacy requests or incidents.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication that enables you to translate complex legal concepts into strategic and actionable guidance.
• 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.