Product Designer

Understand customer needs and translate insights into innovative features. Collaborate with engineering and product managers to refine designs and drive features from concept to public release.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• Proven track record of working on complex, technical products, ideally with experience spanning desktop or embedded interfaces.
• Clear understanding of human-computer interaction principles.
• Strong and diverse portfolio that includes early-stage ideation, user research, and pixel-perfect designs.
• 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.
• Prior experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and enjoy working closely with product and engineering teams.

Key Skills

• Experience with Qt, QML, or OpenGL
• Background in computer science
• Interest in 3D printing, CAD, computational geometry, and/or related technologies

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
• Unlimited 3D prints