Data Scientist
Forus · New York, NY · 7 mo ago
On-siteEngineering$170k–$275k/yrFull-time
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.
About The Role
- Drive strategic projects that require deep data analysis, with accountability for end-to-end execution and business outcomes
- 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
- Create and rapidly iterate on externally facing data products for Forus' key partners and actively participate in priority client engagements
- Build out a unified user interaction model to define Forus' consumer and provider product roadmaps
- 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
Ideal Qualifications
- 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 pick up new tools on the fly
- Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous problems and lead projects with major business impact, collaborating across teams and levels to drive sound decisions
- Comfortable with zooming in and out of problems, jumping between high-level thinking and granular methods of problem-solving
- Strong written and verbal communication that allows you to be an effective participant in both internal debates and external relationships
- High NPS with your former teammates