Strategic Product Manager

Forus•New York, NY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Strategic Product Manager at Forus, you will take on some of the company’s most important and ambiguous product problems before they have established teams, roadmaps, or obvious solutions. Your work may include building internal AI and automation products, creating new operational capabilities, developing the first version of a product for a new customer category, or incubating an entirely new business line. Some initiatives will become permanent product areas; others may be handed to an existing team once the problem has been understood and the initial solution is working. You will operate as a technical product generalist, moving fluidly between product strategy, software, data, operations, and commercial considerations. You will be expected to identify the real constraint, develop a practical solution, build or prototype where useful, and lead execution until the initiative produces a measurable outcome. Depending on the problem, you may work through a dedicated engineering team, lead a broader cross-functional group, or execute significant portions of the work yourself. 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.

Requirements

Experience working in a product management, software engineering, or forward deployed role on a team that required outcome ownership (e.g., fast-growing startup, a 0 -> 1 business line at a high-performing organization)
Track record of taking ambiguous, cross-functional problems and independently driving them through to measurable outcomes
Technical judgment and the ability to reason about software, data, AI systems, and operational processes
Hands-on experience using AI and technical tools to prototype, analyze, automate, or build rather than relying exclusively on specifications and engineering resources
Strong written and verbal communication that allows you to be an effective participant in both internal debates and external relationships
Track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals
High NPS with your former teammates

Responsibilities

Own high-priority zero-to-one initiatives that do not yet have an established product team or obvious solution
Work across new customer categories, internal workflows, and emerging business lines to understand problems and determine what Forus should build
Take initiatives from initial problem definition through prototyping, implementation, launch, measurement, and transition into a durable operating model
Build early prototypes directly where useful, using data analysis, AI development tools, lightweight software, and operational experimentation to learn quickly
Lead cross-functional execution across engineering, design, operations, commercial, clinical, and other teams without relying on formal authority
Create the metrics, feedback loops, and operating mechanisms needed to determine whether an initiative is working and how it should evolve
Help transition successful initiatives into permanent product teams, operating functions, or new business lines