Clinical Partnerships Lead (Medical Director)

The role

You will build clinical relationships with medical societies, clinical leaders, and patient advocacy organizations. You will manage physician advisory boards and translate clinical insights into product and company strategy.

What you will do

• Develop and own relationships with medical societies, clinical leaders, physician groups, patient advocacy organizations, and other healthcare institutions
• Build and manage physician advisory boards
• Create mechanisms for physicians and patients to shape what Forus builds
• Identify partnerships to expand reach, improve medication access, or support entry into new specialties
• Represent Forus in meetings, conferences, working groups, and other external clinical forums
• Partner with product, operations, growth, and life sciences teams
• Advise the CEO and leadership team on clinical trends and stakeholder priorities

Required qualifications

• MD or DO degree
• Meaningful experience practicing medicine
• Experience beyond direct clinical care in healthcare technology, startups, medical societies, health systems, life sciences, policy, investing, or another operating environment
• Track record of building trusted relationships with physicians, clinical leaders, and healthcare institutions
• Ability to translate between clinical, product, commercial, and operational perspectives
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals
• High NPS with former teammates

Benefits

• 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
• Meaningful equity

About the company

Forus is building an AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to accelerate new science to patients. The platform automates the complexity between a doctor prescribing a medicine and a patient starting treatment.