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Salary: USD 160,000 - 280,000 / annual
Formlabs is seeking an exceptional hardware product leader to own and grow the SLS (Selective Laser Sintering) hardware business. Reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, you will operate with startup-founder autonomy while backed by the resources, brand, and manufacturing capability of a scaled company serving 50,000+ industry leaders including Apple, Google, Tesla, and NASA.
You will define and drive the vision and strategy for the SLS business, identifying market direction and building the roadmap to get there first. Your mandate spans discovery, definition, development, and delivery of the full hardware product roadmap, supported by strong customer insights and market analysis. You'll lead multi-disciplinary teams across engineering, design, manufacturing, and commercial functions, serving as the connective tissue ensuring exceptional products that customers love while driving strong financial results.
Key responsibilities include: owning the complete hardware product roadmap from concept to launch; leading major hardware programs and a team of product managers; making high-stakes decisions on product positioning, hardware architecture tradeoffs, and go-to-market timing; representing the voice of the customer internally and the voice of the product externally; partnering deeply with engineering leadership to pressure-test feasibility and identify solutions; and operating with urgency and bias for action without waiting for permission.
You will understand how roadmap strategy, technical hardware decisions, customer acquisition, and manufacturing operations must work in harmony. The role requires both sharp customer insight and clear-eyed understanding of what's technically and commercially feasible, with the poise to make challenging trade-offs required to build exceptional products quickly.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Built real hardware: multiple generation products, major programs, or an entire company; deep knowledge of what it takes to ship reliable hardware
- Previously led a significant business or founded a hardware venture; experience owning vision, P&L, roadmap, results, and team simultaneously
- Technical ability to dive deep across domains (materials, robotics, software); commercial sense to understand customer needs and business viability
- Marketing chops to communicate compelling vision; data skills and customer obsession to support opinionated points of view
- Strong leadership traits: drive, grit, desire to win; builder's mindset with creativity and willingness to do whatever it takes
- Proven ability to get results without enough money, time, or people; resilience when work gets difficult
BONUS SKILLS:
- Experience in 3D printing, additive manufacturing, or adjacent physical product categories
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related technical discipline
- MBA or equivalent experience owning P&L or leading high-growth GTM motion
- Familiarity with hardware manufacturing standards and compliance (ISO, medical, aerospace)
- Strong proficiency with data exploration, market sizing, and decision-driving analysis
