Recruiting Operations Lead
Forus
| Company | Forus |
| Category | HR & Recruiting |
| Location | New York |
| Remote | On-site |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Lead |
| Salary | USD 180k–250k |
| Posted | 22 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 4 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (ashby) |
Description
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 80% of ZIP codes and partner with 5 of the 10 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 $160M+ 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
As our first Recruiting Operations hire, you will build and run the operational backbone of our recruiting engine. Forus is scaling hiring quickly across technical and non-technical teams, and all of it sits on top of systems, data, tools, and processes that need a dedicated owner.
You will own our Ashby architecture, the reporting and dashboards leadership trusts, and the operating cadence that keeps recruiters and hiring managers focused on the company’s most important hiring priorities. You will also build the integrations, automations, referral programs, and AI-enabled workflows that make the entire recruiting organization more effective.
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:
- Own Forus’s Ashby architecture end to end, including jobs, interview plans, workflows, permissions, automations, integrations, and data integrity
- Produce the reporting and dashboards that become the company’s source of truth for hiring progress, recruiting capacity, funnel conversion, time to hire, and source quality
- Audit the hiring process across functions, identify where candidates are moving slowly or being lost, and drive the operational changes required to fix it
- Translate company headcount plans and changing business priorities into search prioritization, recruiter capacity plans, hiring forecasts, and clear operating cadences
- Develop the processes, templates, playbooks, and service standards that help recruiters and hiring managers run rigorous searches consistently
- Own the recruiting technology stack beyond Ashby, including scheduling and sourcing platforms, Slack integrations, referral tools, and AI products such as Clay or Juicebox
- Build and continuously improve company-wide referral programs, making it easy for employees to identify, submit, engage, and track exceptional candidates
- Surface the trends, risks, and bottlenecks that are not obvious from a dashboard, and synthesize them into clear recommendations for recruiting and company leadership
WE’RE LOOKING FOR YOU IF YOU HAVE:
- 3–8 years in recruiting operations, people operations, revenue operations, business operations, or a