Software Product Designer

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Somerville, MA

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About Formlabs: Do you want to change how the world creates? At Formlabs, we’re building the tools that make it possible for anyone to bring their ideas to life, from cutting-edge products to life-saving medical devices. Our 3D printing technology powers innovation at more than 50,000 industry leaders worldwide, including Apple, Google, Tesla, New Balance, and NASA. Together, we’re helping everyone design, prototype, and manufacture faster than ever before. We’re a team of hands-on builders, engineers, and innovators reinventing how the world makes physical things. If you’re ready to shape the future of fabrication, come build it with us. Your Impact: The Formlabs Design Team is looking for a Software Product Designer to shape the UX/UI design and development of user experience and 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. If you’re deeply technical and excited to ship products that ship products, we’d love to hear from you. What You’ll Do: • 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. About 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. • Leverage a technical background, with experience working closely with product and engineering teams. • Prior experience designing software for physical products and/or have a background in industrial design. Bonus Skills: • An interest in 3D printing, CAD, embedded software, and/or related technologies. • Computer Science background or coding experience. • Experience with Qt, QML, or OpenGL. Our Benefits & Perks: • Robust equity program to build future wealth through RSUs • Comprehensive healthcare coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision) • 401K matching and access to financial 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. Our Candidate AI Guidelines are available here. Please give them a read. Compensation We are all owners of Formlabs and direct beneficiaries of our success. We believe that equity is a critical component of compensation at Formlabs, and we want our newest team members to understand the potential value of their equity compensation. Full time employees receive equity, in the form of RSUs. Your financial investment will grow with us in accordance to your impact. At Formlabs, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. Your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, location and expected impact on the organization. The annual base pay range for this role is: $110,000-$165,000 USD