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# Sr.Recruiter at Formlabs

- **Company:** Formlabs
- **Location:** Shenzhen
- **Posted:** 2026-11-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10
- **Apply:** https://careers.formlabs.com/job/8348929/apply/?gh_jid=8348929

## Job description

About Formlabs:

A 3D printer is one of the most demanding machines you can build.

Lasers, optics, precision motion, thermals, airflow, materials handling, chemistry, sensing, controls, and software all have to work at micron-scale precision, for thousands of layers, with almost no tolerance for error. Making that work reliably is an extraordinary engineering problem.

That’s what we do.

At Formlabs, we’re building 3D printers that are changing the way things get made. We have the smartest minds across every engineering discipline, and the technology they’re building is deployed at more than 50,000 industry leaders worldwide, including Apple, Google, Tesla, New Balance, and NASA.

Your Impact:

Formlabs Shenzhen is at a pivotal stage of accelerating our China business. As the first senior recruiting partner on the ground in Shenzhen, you will directly shape the DNA of our organization in this city — building a local talent engine from the ground up and bringing top talent into our engineering, operations, sales, and support teams. Your work will not only determine how fast the Shenzhen office grows, but also how well we grow: finding individuals who both believe in Formlabs' mission to "bring ideas to life" and thrive in a fast-paced hardware tech environment. You will collaborate closely with recruiting teams in Boston, Berlin, and across APAC — translating global best practices into the China context while feeding China-market talent insights back into the global organization.

The Job:

- Own the end-to-end recruiting cycle for all functions in the Shenzhen office: from intake calibration, sourcing, interview coordination, and offer negotiation through to onboarding handoff — covering engineering, manufacturing operations, sales, and functional support roles.

- Build deep partnerships with business leaders in Shenzhen and APAC, understanding business cadence and hiring bars, and proactively anticipating hiring needs rather than reacting to them.

- Build and maintain a local Shenzhen talent pool, developing sustained candidate pipelines in key areas such as hardware engineering, 3D printing, and smart manufacturing.

- Own every touchpoint of the candidate experience, ensuring a process that is efficient, transparent, and reflective of Formlabs' people philosophy from first contact to first day.

- Manage recruiting data and process health: track key metrics (time-to-fill, offer acceptance rate, channel effectiveness, etc.) and use data to drive process improvement.

- Serve as the recruiting interface for the Shenzhen team, partnering with the global People team to ensure policies, tools, and processes are both compliant and locally adapted for the China market.

You:

- Required experience: 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with at least 2 years focused on technical or hardware/manufacturing roles; experience at a foreign-owned tech company or a rapidly scaling team is preferred.

- Sourcing capability: Strong at proactive sourcing; familiar with China's local recruiting channel ecosystem (job boards, social networks, campus channels, agency partnerships); able to reach passive candidates and build genuine connections.

- Business partner mindset: Able to hold peer-level, insightful conversations with business leaders and understand the capability profiles of technical roles — not just keyword matching.

- Process and data fluency: Proficient with ATS systems (Greenhouse experience a plus); habitually uses data to assess recruiting efficiency and drive improvement.

- Communication and collaboration: Bilingual working proficiency in Chinese and English (written and verbal); able to proactively sync and communicate clearly across time zones and cultures.

- Entrepreneurial mindset: The Shenzhen office is in a growth phase — you need to be able to define problems and drive solutions proactively in an environment with limited resources and processes still being built, rather than waiting for instructions.

We Offer:

- An inclusive office with diverse and inspiring colleagues
- Shares in the company
- Development opportunities both in-house and off-site
- Unlimited 3D prints
- Fun team events

Perks are subject to adjustments and may vary from team to team.

You don’t need to check every box to apply for a role. If you love working with hardware, spending time with smart people, solving hard problems, and winning, we want to hear from you.

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.

Our Candidate AI Guidelines are available[here](https://careers.formlabs.com/ai-guidelines/). Please give them a read.

## About Formlabs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Formlabs designs and manufactures professional desktop 3D printers, materials, and software that make industrial-quality additive manufacturing accessible to businesses across a wide range of industries.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E, valuation $2B as of 2021)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Max Lobovsky, Natan Linder, David Cranor (MIT graduate students)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: 3D printing hardware, software, and materials; additive manufacturing
- **Target customers**: B2B — from small businesses and entrepreneurs to large enterprises in medical, automotive, aerospace, footwear, consumer goods, and education
- **Mission/purpose**: “Enable anyone to make anything” – expanding access to digital fabrication through affordable, professional 3D printing

## Products & Services
- **SLA 3D Printers (Form 3, Form 3L, Form 4)**: Desktop stereolithography printers that deliver industrial part quality, precision, and repeatability.
- **SLS 3D Printers (Fuse 1, Fuse 1+)**: Selective laser sintering printers for functional, end-use nylon parts.
- **Proprietary Materials**: Over 45 formulations including standard resins, engineering resins, dental materials, and jewelry casting resins.
- **PreForm Software**: Free slicing and print preparation software optimized for Formlabs printers.
- **Fleet Management Software**: Cloud-based platform for managing multiple printers, tracking usage, and automating workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $2B (reported during the $150M Series E round in 2021)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of over $250M across rounds (Series A–E); 130,000+ printers sold and 300M+ parts printed globally
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: New Enterprise Associates (NEA), DFJ, Tyche Partners, and other leading venture firms; customers include “global leaders” in medical, automotive, aerospace, and footwear
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 750+ employees (up from ~550 in recent years); 161 active job postings as of mid-2026, with +631.8% year-over-year growth in postings; expansion into 8 global offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific; new manufacturing facility in Millbury, OH

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertical integration**: In-house design of hardware, software, and materials ensures a tightly optimized user experience and rapid iteration
- **Proprietary ecosystem**: 45+ materials that work exclusively with Formlabs printers, creating a strong lock-in and consistent quality
- **Accessibility + quality**: First to bring SLA and SLS to the professional desktop market at a fraction of the cost of industrial systems
- **Scale and brand trust**: Over 130,000 printers in the field, used in 10+ industries, giving Formlabs the largest installed base of any professional desktop 3D printing company

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Deepening presence in Asia (Shenzhen, Tokyo, Singapore) and Europe (Berlin, Budapest)
- **Manufacturing scale**: Building out production capacity in Millbury, Ohio to meet growing demand
- **New market segments**: Developing specialized materials and application-specific printers for dental, jewelry, and mass-customization use cases
- **Software and services**: Enhancing fleet management and workflow automation to move “from prototyping to production”

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Employees describe a culture of “curiosity, autonomy, and results” with a collaborative, hands-on environment. The company invests in community initiatives around access and education.
- **Work model**: Hybrid and onsite roles available across eight global offices; some remote positions (e.g., field service technicians). Locations include Boston (HQ), Millbury, Milwaukee, Berlin, Budapest, Shenzhen, Tokyo, and Singapore.
- **Perks & engineering culture**: Strong R&D focus with roles spanning hardware, software, materials science, and product management. The interview process is designed to be collaborative, and the company encourages internal mobility.
- **Impact**: Directly work on products that enable “lifesaving medical devices” and “Hollywood blockbusters” – a tangible, mission-driven outcome.

## Sources
1. [Formlabs Company Page](https://formlabs.com/company/)
2. [Formlabs Careers](https://careers.formlabs.com/)
3. [Formlabs All Open Roles](https://careers.formlabs.com/all-open-roles/)
4. [Formlabs LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/formlabs)
5. [Built In – What’s It Like to Work at Formlabs](https://builtin.com/company/formlabs/faq/workplace-perception)

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