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Product Designer

Posted 22 Days Ago
Hybrid
Somerville, MA
Mid level
Hybrid
Somerville, MA
Mid level
Join Formlabs as a Product Designer to shape user interfaces for innovative 3D printers, collaborating across teams and conducting user research.
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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 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 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 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 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.

Top Skills

Adobe Creative Suite
Figma
Opengl
Qml
Qt
HQ

Formlabs Somerville, Massachusetts, USA Office

Formlabs spun out of MIT in 2011 and never went too far. We're located in Somerville, MA just past Union Square, but steps away from Cambridge. There are plenty of cafes, restaurants, and other city conveniences within walking distance.

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