Strategic Product Manager

Forus; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance

Unlimited paid time off (PTO)

401(k) plan setup

Job summary

Forus is seeking a Strategic Product Manager in New York to tackle key product challenges and drive innovation. This role demands autonomy in developing internal AI solutions, overseeing projects from inception to execution and working across multiple teams.

Applicants should have strong experience in product management or software engineering, alongside effective communication skills. We provide competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits, including health insurance and unlimited PTO.

Qualifications

• Experience in product management or software engineering roles.
• Ability to independently drive ambiguous problems.
• Hands-on experience with AI and technical tools.

Responsibilities

• Own high-priority initiatives without established teams.
• Work across various customer categories and workflows.
• Lead cross-functional execution to drive outcomes.

Skills

Outcome ownership

Cross-functional problem solving

Technical judgment

AI and technical tools proficiency

Strong communication

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.

About The Role

As a Strategic Product Manager at Forus, you will take on 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’s 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.

What you’ll do

• 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 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 resourceful and audacious. Resist false constraints and push beyond the obvious before committing.
• Spit it out. Speak directly, invite critique, avoid equivocation. We want right answers, not comfortable ones.
• Raise the bar together. Hold a high standard for execution, push each other directly, and win as a team.

Compensation and Benefits

We provide competitive compensation with meaningful equity. 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:

• 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.
• 401(k) plan setup, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass.
• Lunch at the office every day and dinner at the office after 7 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. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity.

Equal Opportunity

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.