Narrative & Comms Lead

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

Forus has an ambitious story to tell: we are using AI to eliminate the barriers between patients and medicine, while building the network and infrastructure that could transform how new therapies reach the world. As Narrative & Comms Lead, you will define how that story is understood by exceptional talent, industry leaders, and the broader market.

You will work directly with our CEO to sharpen Forus’s narrative, establish a distinctive public voice, and turn the company’s ideas and progress into stories that earn attention. You will bring a point of view on what Forus should become known for, develop the ideas and moments that reinforce it, and determine how we show up across founder communications, press, social platforms, speaking opportunities, and other high-leverage channels.

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:

• Define and continuously sharpen Forus’s company narrative, category positioning, and external voice

• Partner closely with the CEO and executive team to develop ideas and create posts, essays, speeches, interviews, talking points, and other public communications

• Identify the stories, opinions, company developments, and market moments that Forus is uniquely positioned to own

• Build a consistent presence across the channels where our most important audiences form opinions, rather than relying on a conventional corporate-content calendar.

• Own Forus’s earned-media strategy, cultivating relationships with the journalists, creators, podcasters, conference organizers, and industry voices who influence how our market is understood.

• Lead the narrative and communications strategy around major company moments, including launches, partnerships, milestones, financing, and important developments across AI, healthcare, and life sciences.

• Develop a speaking and visibility strategy for Forus and its leaders, determining which stages, forums, podcasts, and conversations are worth pursuing.

• Translate complex technical, healthcare, and commercial ideas into clear and compelling stories without stripping away their substance.

• Ensure that Forus presents a coherent and distinctive story across talent, customer, investor, press, and executive communications.

• Manage external agencies or specialists where useful while retaining internal ownership of the narrative and quality bar.

We’re looking for you if you have:

• 4–10 years of experience in content strategy, journalism, editorial, customer marketing, product marketing, communications, or a related role

• Exceptional writing and editorial judgment, with the ability to turn complex healthcare, operational, and technical topics into clear and compelling stories

• Familiarity interviewing customers, executives, clinicians, patients, or other subject-matter experts and building the trust required to tell their stories well

• A portfolio of high-quality case studies, articles, reports, videos, or other substantive content you personally helped create

• Strong analytical instincts and comfort working with data to identify, validate, and communicate meaningful outcomes and trends

• 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.