Pharmacist

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.

This role is based in our Boise, ID location. Please disregard references to NYC office.

About the Role

As a critical member of our operations team at Forus you will support our prescription processing workflows, ensuring efficient medication access for our patients.

You will support core pharmacy workflows from prior authorizations to providing verbal transfers, and will be responsible for interacting with providers, payers, and other pharmacies. You will collaborate closely with our operations team and will be responsible for delivering on an exceptional patient and provider experience.

This position is based in Boise, ID, with a requirement to be based in-person, in our office at least one day a week. You must hold an active pharmacist license in the state of Idaho.

Responsibilities:

• Handle verbal transfers with accuracy and professionalism, ensuring seamless coordination between pharmacies and healthcare providers.

• Manage and facilitate the prior authorization process to ensure timely approvals and patient access to medications.

• Utilize proprietary software to support operational workflows, focusing on efficiency and accuracy.

• Provide expert guidance on medication-related queries and support healthcare providers in navigating complex insurance and access challenges.

• Collaborate with internal teams to develop and refine processes that improve patient and provider experiences.

• Stay abreast of industry regulations and best practices to ensure compliance and maintain high standards of service.

Requirements:

• Have a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree from an accredited pharmacy program

• Hold an active pharmacist license in Idaho with 3+ years of experience in a healthcare setting focused on pharmacy operations or similar roles.

• Have strong experience with prior authorizations, insurance processes, and pharmacy operations workflows.

• Exhibit excellent communication skills

• Demonstrate proficiency with technology, including pharmacy management systems and workflow optimization tools.

• Are detail-oriented and capable of managing multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.

• Show a passion for improving healthcare access through innovative solutions and collaboration.

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.

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.