Our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world! We work very hard to provide our consumers with high-quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to build the next big thing and develop while they do.
Are you a champion of innovation? Are you excited about working in a cross-functional team that is chartered to generate breakthrough new consumer appliance product concepts and technologies?
SharkNinja is looking for a Senior Product Design Engineer for the Shark Advanced Development Engineering team based at our US headquarters in the greater Boston, MA area.
As a Senior Product Design Engineer for AD projects, you will work very closely with the Product Development, Marketing, and Consumer Insights teams to identify and develop innovative product concepts and technologies for our global business. You will be a key part of the team, able to translate consumer needs into prototype product designs. Please apply with a portfolio or be prepared to present a work sample upon request. SharkNinja is a very fast-paced development environment. Your ability to lead and inspire diverse teams to bring products to market faster than our competition is critical.
Responsibilities:
- Apply design thinking to understand and solve real consumer problems, and translate these into Advanced Development projects
- Design and build prototypes for internal review, testing, and consumer validation
- Challenge assumptions and think innovatively to solve complex problems creatively
- Hold cross-functional brainstorming sessions and encourage out-of-the-box thinking
- Work as a team leader or an individual contributor on multiple projects of varying size, scope, and complexity–while responding quickly to shifting priorities
- Provide training and mentorship to less experienced engineers, share skills with other engineers
- Participate in peer design reviews. Think critically about new product concepts, and ask the questions necessary for positive change
- Collaborate with R&D team to explore and integrate new technologies into Shark’s next generation products
- Interpret data/test results and proactively develop action plans
- Champion new product concepts toward commercial feasibility, including internal selling to SharkNinja’s executive team
- Transition abstract product ideas into tangible Advanced Development product concepts, within a global development context
- Expand, develop, and refine front end strategies and processes.
Qualifications:
- BS in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology, or relevant experience in R&D, consumer product development, or product design.
- 5+ years experience in new product development focused on innovation and emerging technologies within a consumer product driven company
- Experience leading and working on user-centered innovation projects
- Desire to work in the fuzzy front-end on product development projects and passionate about understanding consumer needs
- Proven track record of creating and implementing robust, elegant, and innovative solutions to complex problems
- Willingness to fail quickly to succeed sooner when generating disruptive product concepts. Open to pursuing multiple paths to get to the best solution, and listening to others or try out alternate idea
- Ability to communicate quickly, effectively, and concisely both verbally and in writing to influence at a high level.
- CAD proficiency in Creo and/or SolidWorks
- Ability to work cross functionally and own the success of the products jointly with the other disciplines with strong communication, coordination, teamwork, and people skills
- Ability to accomplish goals autonomously and within a dynamic, deadline-driven team environment
- Respect and understanding of other disciplines, including Industrial Design, User Experience, Electronics, Quality, Consumer Insights and Manufacturing
- Ability to travel globally, including trips to China and the UK.
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At SharkNinja, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are vital to our global success. Valuing each unique voice and blending all of our diverse skills strengthens SharkNinja’s innovation every day. We support ALL associates in bringing their authentic selves to work, making an impact, and having the opportunity for career acceleration. With help from our leadership, associates, and our community, we aim to have equity be a key component of the SharkNinja DNA.
YOUR ROLE in leading our SUCCESS DRIVERS & representing our UNIQUE MINDSET
- Lead us to be “RARELY SATISFIED”
- Make things better each day; “PROGRESS OVER PERFECTION”
- Use your knowledge of our consumer, understand that “DETAILS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE”
- Deliver something great; “WINNING IS A TEAM SPORT”
- Be clear and honest, “COMMUNICATING FOR IMPACT”
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