Senior Counsel

About the Role

As Senior Counsel at Forus, you will serve as a key legal partner to stakeholders across the business. You will report directly to the General Counsel and work on legal questions that contribute to the next phases of growth. You will own important commercial matters, contribute to product design, resolve operational challenges, and drive the legal strategy that helps the business move.

Forus is entering a defining stage. Demand is accelerating, our partnerships matter more, and our products and business models are evolving. The legal work is consequential, fast-moving, and often novel. 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

• Advise stakeholders on legal and compliance matters across healthcare and clinical operations, marketing, privacy, and data governance.
• Draft and negotiate commercial agreements and develop related playbooks, templates, and escalation guidance.
• Develop scalable legal guidance, policies, templates, and AI-enabled workflows that enable efficient decision-making.
• Own and maintain Forus’s core platform agreements, including provider Terms of Service, privacy notices, and website terms, in alignment with product, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Lead day-to-day privacy and HIPAA counseling, including data mapping, privacy-request workflows, minimum-necessary practices, and partnership with Security on technical controls.
• Partner with the compliance team to advance Forus's healthcare compliance program, aligned with applicable OIG guidance, enterprise risk assessments, and Forus's evolving risk profile.

We're Looking for You If You Have

• 6+ years of legal experience in commercial contracts and business counseling, J.D., active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
• Experience independently handling complex commercial matters. Healthcare and ideally health-tech experience is strongly preferred; law-firm and in-house experience is ideal.
• Meaningful experience with privacy and healthcare regulatory matters, including HIPAA/HITECH, data use and sharing, business associate agreements, and privacy requests or incidents.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication that enables you to translate complex legal concepts into strategic and actionable guidance.
• Track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals.
• High NPS with your former teammates.

Additional information

This is a list of ideal qualifications for this position. If you don't meet every single one of them, you should still consider applying! We’re excited to work with people from underrepresented backgrounds, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

Working with US

Forus is based in New York, with our full team working out of a beautiful and spacious office in SoHo.

We run as a high-trust environment with high autonomy, which requires that everyone is fully competent and operates in line with our principles:

• Do the math. Be rigorous, assume nothing. Break problems down and reason from the ground up. Stay open to changing your mind.
• Resourceful optimism. Assume problems are solvable. Be audacious. Resist false constraints and push beyond the obvious before deciding.
• Spit it out. Speak directly, invite critique, avoid equivocation. We want right answers, not comfortable ones. All killer, no filler.
• Raise the bar. Hold a high standard for your pace and execution, and elevate the performance of the team around you. Mamba mentality.
• Fight for users. Start with users’ realities, not ours. Resist optimizing for internal convenience over user outcomes.

Pay and benefits

We provide competitive compensation with meaningful equity (for full-time employees). Everyone who joins will be a major contributor to our success, and we reflect this through ownership and pay.

We also provide rich benefits to ensure you can focus on creating impact (for full-time employees):

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

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our company’s size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes equity, benefits, and other opportunities at Forus (for full-time employees). Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity.