Senior Product Designer

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Somerville, MA
Hybrid
Senior level
3D Printing • Hardware • Other • Software • Design
Formlabs develops accessible Low Force Stereolithography (LFS) and selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printers.
The Role
The Senior Product Designer at Formlabs will shape user interfaces for 3D printing products, collaborating with engineering teams and product managers. Key responsibilities include understanding customer needs, refining designs from wireframes to prototypes, conducting research, and maintaining design systems to enhance user experience.
Summary Generated by Built In

To reinvent an industry, you have to build the best team. Join Formlabs if you want to bring groundbreaking professional 3D printers to the desktop of every designer, engineer, researcher, and artist in the world.

The Formlabs Product Design Team is looking for a Senior Product Designer to shape the design and development of user interfaces across our embedded, desktop, and web products. As a member of the team, you will collaborate across creative and engineering disciplines, prototype at varying levels of fidelity, and contribute to creating products and user experiences that empower our customers to achieve their goals—leaving a lasting impact on the world.

If you’re excited to ship products that ship products, we’d love to hear from you.

The Job:

  • Deeply understand the needs of Formlabs customers, translating their insights into innovative features.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering to refine designs and bring them to life, driving features from low-fidelity wireframes to pixel-perfect prototypes and all the way through to public release—where your work has a tangible impact on our customers and their creations.
  • Partner with product managers to ideate, define, and validate early-stage concepts for new features that deliver significant business value and exceptional user experiences.
  • Conduct in-depth research by collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing product usage data, creating high-fidelity prototypes, and validating assumptions with usability studies to uncover insights that inform customer-focused, strategic design decisions.
  • Conduct regular audits of the end-to-end user experience across our ecosystem and propose impactful initiatives to leadership.
  • Help design, grow, and maintain robust and scalable design systems that ensure consistency and efficiency across all products.

You:

  • Have a proven track record of working on complex, technical products, ideally with experience spanning desktop, web, mobile, or embedded interfaces.
  • Bring a clear understanding of human-computer interaction principles, executing them effectively and communicating design intentions clearly to collaborators.
  • Demonstrate a strong and diverse portfolio that includes early-stage ideation, user research, and pixel-perfect designs.
  • Have deep expertise with design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
  • Thrive in a collaborative environment, where you can take and give constructive feedback in a culture where the best ideas win.
  • Have prior experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and enjoy working closely with product and engineering teams.

Bonus Skills: 

  • A background in human-computer interaction, design, or computer science is great, but your experience and enthusiasm matter most.
  • An interest in 3D printing, CAD, computational geometry, and/or related technologies.
  • Experience with web technologies (e.g. JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, and/or Electron.)
  • Experience with Qt, QML, or OpenGL.

Our Perks & Benefits:

  • Robust equity program to build future wealth through RSUs
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision)
  • Low cost fund options in our 401K and access to advisors 
  • Generous paid Parental Leave (up to 16 weeks)
  • Tenure-based paid Sabbatical Leave (up to 6 weeks)
  • Flexible Out of Office Plan – Take time when you need it
  • Ample on-site parking & pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Healthy on-site lunches, snacks, beverages, & treats
  • Regular sponsored professional development opportunities
  • Many opt-in culture events across our diverse community
  • And of course… unlimited 3D prints

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.  

Even if you don't check every box, but see yourself contributing, please apply. Help us build an inclusive community that will change the face of 3D printing.

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The Company
HQ: Somerville, MA
750 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

We’re a passionate team of engineers, designers, and problem-solvers. Started out of MIT in 2011, Formlabs now employs over 700 people across offices in Germany, Japan, China and Somerville, Massachusetts. We're committed to bringing powerful and accessible fabrication tools into the creative hands of professionals around the world.

Why Work With Us

We’ve built a team 700+ strong across the world, and still counting. We look for people with an insatiable curiosity, a willingness to question the status quo, and a high capacity to get things done.

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Formlabs Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Building the 3D tools of the future is not an easy task. To reach this ambitious goal, we need to react fast, iterate, and make changes on the fly. Our teams observe a flexible hybrid, where we all aim to be in office 3 days/week when possible.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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