The posting
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.
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