General Counsel

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Somerville, MA
Senior level
3D Printing • Hardware • Other • Software • Design
Formlabs develops accessible Low Force Stereolithography (LFS) and selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printers.
The Role
The General Counsel will oversee all legal activities at Formlabs, including IP strategy and prosecution, vendor and customer contracts, and financing agreements. They will collaborate with the leadership team and board of directors and need to possess strong negotiation skills, legal insight, and a passion for the company's technology.
Summary Generated by Built In

Formlabs is looking for a General Counsel to join our executive leadership team and help build a great company.

About us:

Formlabs was started to make 3D printing much more accessible and easy to use for a range of professionals.  Founded by 3 MIT graduates in 2011 in Boston, today, it is at over $200M revenue, 800 people worldwide, and still in growth mode. The company's products cover Stereolithography (SLA) and Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) technology with an end-to-end system of printer hardware, materials, and software.  It has now shipped more than 130,000 professional 3D printers, more than any other company in the world. Formlabs serves customers in every industry that makes plastic parts, from consumer electronics to aerospace to dentistry.

The job:

  • Responsible for all legal activities
    • IP strategy, prosecution, litigation
    • Vendor contracts
    • Customer contracts
    • Financing contracts
  • Member of the executive leadership team
  • Working closely with our board of directors

You:

  • Smart, driven and hard working
  • Good negotiation and sales skills
  • Hands on - we are not a big company and we work like an even smaller one
  • Know what talented people and good work looks like because of your experience in top tier organizations, either universities, law firms, or in house
  • Don’t mind being asked about probabilities, expected values, and business impact.  We need more than a legal opinion.
  • Have passion about our products and industry

Bonus:

  • Engineering or other technical background
  • Startup experience

Why join us:

  • Make an impact with a technology that is bringing amazing products to life, from consumer electronics, to dental, and everything in between.
  • The most diverse General Counsel job at a pre-IPO company you can find
    • Patent litigation and prosecution - we've been sued three times and survived and thrived!
    • Wide range of hardware, software, material products with tariffs, compliance, etc.  We are even a medical device manufacturer.
    • International employment, tax, etc
  • Work closely with a flexible, creative, first-principles-thinking leadership team
  • Unlimited 3d printing!

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.

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The Company
HQ: Somerville, MA
750 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

We’re a passionate team of engineers, designers, and problem-solvers. Started out of MIT in 2011, Formlabs now employs over 700 people across offices in Germany, Japan, China and Somerville, Massachusetts. We're committed to bringing powerful and accessible fabrication tools into the creative hands of professionals around the world.

Why Work With Us

We’ve built a team 700+ strong across the world, and still counting. We look for people with an insatiable curiosity, a willingness to question the status quo, and a high capacity to get things done.

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Formlabs Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Building the 3D tools of the future is not an easy task. To reach this ambitious goal, we need to react fast, iterate, and make changes on the fly. Our teams observe a flexible hybrid, where we all aim to be in office 3 days/week when possible.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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