Startup Founder, Formlabs
$120-250k
+ RSUs
3-5 days a week in office
High performance 3D Printers
Open for applications
High performance 3D Printers
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$120-250k
+ RSUs
3-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To bring powerful and accessible fabrication tools into the creative hands of professionals around the world.
Role
Who you are
- You are technical. You likely have an engineering degree of some sort. Or better yet, you left school a bit early to go build something you were too excited to wait for
- You are a tinkerer and/or an ex-co-founder who thrives on complexity and doesn’t wait for permission. You get results
- Proven Entrepreneurial Experience: You have previously built a business or significant venture (technology startup experience is ideal), demonstrating a high tolerance for risk and a bias for action
- Comfort with Breadth: You have direct experience creating multi-disciplinary technology products and understand the full lifecycle from ideation to scale
- Ownership & Hustle: You possess the “get it done” mindset—the hustle to do whatever it takes, whether it’s pitching a customer, setting up a supply chain, or debugging a prototype
- Adaptive Leadership: You excel at both hiring and leading teams and are energized by a constantly changing, high-standard environment
- Even if you don’t check every box, but see yourself contributing, please apply
Desirable
- Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Degree, or related
- Entrepreneurial experience, such as founding your own business
- MBA or experience in a consulting role
- Familiarity with manufacturing, regulatory, or product standards and compliance in industries like healthcare, pharma, or life sciences
- Experience with 3D printing technologies and materials
- Familiarity with Tableau or SQL
What the job involves
- Your mandate is to act as a mini-CEO: rapidly identify, develop, and scale new product lines and ventures within Formlabs. We value bias for action, comfort with ambiguity, and deep ownership over outcomes
- We are seeking results-focused leaders/entrepreneurs who can quickly pivot and take charge. Your contribution will span the product cycle, from deep R&D to global-scale shipping across hardware, software, materials science, and business functions
- Build & Lead: Create and lead multi-disciplinary teams of talented engineers, operators, and designers. Hire and mentor the next generation of Formlabs leaders
- Dive Deep: Roll up your sleeves to build complex, electro-mechanical robotic products as we continue to explore new technologies, applications, and market opportunities within R&D
- Take Decisive Action: Make crucial, high-stakes decisions that directly impact our core technology and business trajectory
- Embrace the Ambiguity: Work at the intersection of complex disciplines (engineering, sales, manufacturing, marketing) and take full ownership to get the job done
- The standard is high, and the work is hard. Success here means you will be fundamentally changing digital manufacturing for designers, engineers, researchers, and artists everywhere
Our take
Formlabs' founders met at MIT in 2011, and set about creating a company that would disrupt the 3D printing market. While the majority of the industry was experiencing a crash, Formlabs managed to buck the trend by implementing additive manufacturing (stereolithography) to a desktop form factor.
While many 3D printing manufacturers have tried in vain to market their hardware to home users, Formlabs has maintained a laser-sharp focus on serving the needs of professionals and large-scale companies such as Coke and Sony. Striving to keep costs low while maintaining an optimal user experience, the company has sold well over 100,000 printers.
With considerable funding at its back, Formlabs has continued to develop new solutions such as a series of mass manufacturing solutions that enable its customers to dramatically increase their 3D printing output. As the largest supplier of professional SLA and SLS 3D printers in the world, the company is well set to further its position and achieve further global growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Aug 2018
$15m
SERIES D
Total funding: $250.8m
Company HQ
Ward Two, Somerville, MA
Leadership
Maxim Lobovsky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Formlabs in 2011, Maxim interned at NASA Robotics Academy. He was also a Research Assistant at Advanced Fiber Engineering, Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab, and MIT.
David Lakatos
(CPO)Alongside Formlabs, David is an Advisor at Shapr3D. Previously, he co-founded Sold, which was quickly acquired by Dropbox.
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