Forus

People Operations

New York office. Posted 8 months ago

The role

You will build and scale people infrastructure including onboarding, compensation, benefits, compliance, performance, and culture. You will serve as the operational backbone for the employee lifecycle and a strategic partner to leaders.

What you will do

  • Full HR lifecycle ownership including onboarding, offboarding, benefits, compensation, performance, compliance, and employee relations
  • Design and improve systems for scale and compliance
  • Serve as primary contact for employee concerns, conflicts, and escalations
  • Maintain adherence to federal, state, and local employment regulations
  • Build support programs and resources for managers
  • Administer compensation structures and benefits programs
  • Partner with Finance on payroll and headcount planning
  • Design and run culture and engagement programs
  • Implement AI-powered tools and automation for HR workflows
  • Own and maintain HRIS, payroll, and related tools

Required qualifications

  • 5–10 years of HR generalist experience
  • Experience in large-scale, high-volume, early-career workforce environments, call centers, large operations, support orgs, BPO, or staffing
  • Experience with large non-exempt, W-2 employee populations
  • Proven track record managing HR through rapid growth
  • Strong employee relations experience
  • Compliance fluency in wage and hour law, FMLA, ADA, and state-specific requirements
  • Experience supporting first-time and seasoned managers
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Analytical rigor using data to diagnose problems and measure outcomes
  • Structured problem-solving
  • First-principles thinking
  • Strong attention to detail

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity
  • Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance
  • Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
  • 16 weeks of parental leave
  • 401K plan setup
  • FSA option
  • Commuter benefits
  • DashPass
  • Lunch at the office every day
  • Dinner at the office after 6:30 pm

About the company

Forus is building an AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to accelerate new science to patients. The company is based in New York with a team working out of an office in SoHo.