Data Scientist: AI Strategy & Cross-Functional Impact

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.

As a Data Scientist on our team, you will not only define and predict our company’s core metrics, you will drive them. This is a role of immense range, stretching from developing advanced analytical models to owning end-to-end strategic project implementation.

Your work will be hyper cross-functional, sometimes driving forward technical projects in partnership with an engineer, other times leading an operational workstream. You will also engage directly with Fortune 100 customers to understand their needs and present on Forus' performance and relevant insights.

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.

• Drive strategic projects that require deep data analysis, with accountability for end-to-end execution and business outcomes – this may include:

  • Sourcing and using industry and market data to shape Forus' go-to-market and growth strategy

  • Leveraging our internal workflow data to predict operational throughput and bottlenecks and prioritize new workflow automations as we scale

  • Prototyping new modeling approaches to AI problems (e.g., outcome prediction and optimization for insurance-related processes) in collaboration with our Engineering team

  • Building out a unified user interaction model to define Forus' consumer and provider product roadmaps

• Create and rapidly iterate on externally facing data products for Forus' key partners and actively participate in priority client engagements

• Establish Forus' core data sources and metrics to empower everyone on the team to answer complex questions about Forus' business in real-time

• Work directly with our CEO and leadership team as a critical partner in making business decisions as we balance speed of growth and long-term profitability

• An advanced degree in a quantitative field or 4+ years of work experience in an analytics-heavy, business-focused role

• Strong technical background with exceptional ability to do data analysis using SQL and Python, as well as…