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APAC People Lead

Formlabs

Formlabs

People & HR
Singapore
Posted on Oct 29, 2024

To reinvent an industry, you have to build the best team. Join Formlabs if you want to bring groundbreaking professional 3D printers to the desktop of every designer, engineer, researcher, medical provider and artist in the world. Our printers are used by Google, Tesla, Gillette, and New Balance, just to name a few. This is the wave of the future, and we welcome you to join our team and be a part of this evolution across all industries.

Founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 2011, Formlabs is now one of the leading global developers and manufacturers of 3D printers in the world. With a dynamically growing global team of 750+ dedicated people, we're building a diverse company that can tackle any challenge.

If you are a highly motivated, hands-on individual who wants to build high-performing teams and you are also passionate about execution and operational excellence, you would be a great fit. We need someone who can quickly conquer any obstacle using solid critical thinking skills, develop smart and scalable solutions, help our business teams grow, and make an impact. Come join us as our APAC People Lead within our People team to work with our teams across the APAC region (Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and SEA). You will have great opportunities for growth as we expand across the region and build out a People team that partners with business leaders to enable success in hiring, developing, and retaining great talent.

This position is based in Singapore or Shenzhen.

The impact you’ll have:

  • Help drive our team and our culture as part of the APAC leadership team
  • Build our team by working and partnering with leaders across the business to find amazing talent, engaging in full cycle recruiting by sourcing, interviewing, and hiring candidates across multiple departments
  • Enable leaders across functions to take their teams and talent to the next level through coaching and hands-on support as a business partner
  • Operationalize our twice-annual performance cycles and annual compensation cycle, helping us recognize and reward great performance
  • Create and facilitate an impactful onboarding experience for our new people, helping them to understand the business, our culture, and the tactical information and tools that will help them hit the ground running
  • Support our culture initiatives driving cohesion across the region and company, including working on employee engagement and retention initiatives across our APAC teams by understanding our people data, working with leaders on trends and insights, and enabling managers to create action plans to drive improvements and business success
  • Partner with Formlings, candidates, and the Formlabs legal team on mobility and immigration work/sponsorship needs across the region
  • Manage relationships with external vendors for office needs, benefits, events, and more
  • Collaborate with our People team members across the globe as we build and scale processes and policies that impact our people regardless of where they work
  • Manage and respond/resolve questions from our people through our ticketing system (Jira)
  • Manage the data to be captured within our HRIS, our ATS, and other systems

What you bring to the role:

  • You are fluent in written and spoken English
  • You have 3-5 years of business partnering experience, recruiting experience, or other transferable experience in several regions in APAC such as Japan, China and Korea
  • You have a demonstrated ability to influence others
  • You love to dig into data, identify trends, and act on them
  • You think about how to scale your work through operational excellence
  • You are driven, diligent, structured, attentive and eager to find solutions to challenges facing you and your team
  • You are comfortable working in Excel, Google Suite, and HR systems

Bonus Skills:

  • Passion for 3D printing and emerging technologies
  • Experience in global and rapidly-growing companies
  • Fluency in Mandarin

We Offer:

  • Unlimited 3D prints
  • Ability to travel to our global offices regularly to meet with APAC teams

Benefits and Perks:

  • Medical benefits through Singlife
  • An inclusive, dog-friendly office with diverse and inspiring colleagues
  • Shares in the company (we’re a Unicorn company)
  • Development opportunities both in-house and off-site
  • Catering 3x per week, free beverages and snacks
  • 50 EUR mobility subsidy (incl. BVG Firmenticket & Swapfiets)
  • Discount for Urban Sports Club
  • Unlimited 3D prints
  • Fun team events

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

We build amazing things. Come join us!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, 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.