Design Manager, Engineering Home Environment

About Us

SharkNinjais a global product design and technology company with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positivelyimpactpeoples lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted global brands Shark and Ninja the company has a proventrack recordof bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowedSharkNinjato enter multiple product categories driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham Massachusetts with more than4100associates the companys products are sold at key retailers online and offline and through distributors around the world.

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At SharkNinja were building an AI-native culture. Were not waiting for the future; were creating it. Our people are expected to experiment boldly adopt new tools and continuously raise whats possible to create meaningful impact for our consumers. If you believe the best way to do your job hasnt been invented yet youll fit right in.

Design Manager Engineering

Home EnvironmentNPD NeedhamMA Shark Brand

Werelooking for a Design Manager to lead the mechanical engineering team behind a new generation of Shark home environment products. This is a hands-on leadership technical direction across your programs from early concept through mass production manage and develop a team of engineers and work across a global product development organization spanning Boston China and Europe.

The right candidate builds things. They come in with an appliance design mindset understand how mechanisms work and want to figure out problems thatdonthave obvious comfortable sketching on a whiteboard and running a DFM review with a tooling supplier. They manage multiple programs simultaneously without losing track of any of them. And they lead people well: honestly withhigh standards and a bias toward getting things done.

What Youll Do

• Own design execution from concept through production: CAD prototyping DFMEA tolerance analysis tooling design DFM reviews and validation testing.

• Design and develop mechanisms. Think through how something moves where it wears how it fails and how to design around it.

• Build and test prototypes in the lab. Break them learn from them iterate. Bring the sameexpectationto your team.

• Translate requirements and customer feedback into engineering solutions. When a requirement lands without a clear path forward figure out the path.

• Lead DFM and DFA reviews with manufacturing partners primarily in China. Flagriskearly. Drive decisions.

• Run DFMEA and tolerance stack-up analyses toidentifyfailure modes and design margin before they become production problems.

• Manage 2-4 direct reports. Sethigh expectations develop their skills givereal feedback. This includes hiring as the team and category grow.

• Manage multiple concurrent programs atdifferent stagesof development. Keep priorities clear when timelinescompress.

• Lead engineering communication to executive leadership: progress risk and decisions not just status.

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners including Product Management Industrial Design Operations Sourcing and Quality.

• Travel internationally to manufacturing and development partners in Asia and Europe (approximately 4-8trips per year).

What Were Looking For

Experience

• 7-10 years of mechanical or product design engineering experience witha track recordof taking products to mass production.

• Appliance design backgroundstronglypreferred. The systems-thinking and mechanical intuition from AD experience translates directly into how we work.

• 2yearsmanaging engineers. You know how to hire develop and hold people to a high standard without losing them.

• Hands-on CAD in SolidWorks or Creo ata high level. You lead CAD reviews not just attend them.

• Real experiencewith DFMEA tolerance analysis and DFM. Not them to make decisions on live programs.

• Injection-molded plastic part design and tooling experience.

• Consumer goods or household appliance experience preferred.

Technical skills

• Strong mechanism design instincts. You think structurally about how parts interact where failures happen and how to designit out.

• Comfortable in the lab: prototyping testing documenting results and feeding findings back into design.

• Fluent in high-volume manufacturing processes and the constraints they impose on design.

• Familiarity with electromechanical systems (motors sensors PCBAs). Youdontneed to own electrical engineering but you need todesign aroundit.

Mindset and ways of working

• Works well under tight deadlines. Programs compress. You stay productive anyway.

• Comfortable with ambiguity. Wedontalways have a clean spec or a clear precedent. You approach that as a problem to solve not a reason to wait.

• When someone brings you a hard constraint or a late requirement your first move is figuring out how to meet it not listing reasons itwontwork.

• Enjoysworking with people across functions and geographies. Cross-functional alignment is part of the role not overhead on top of it.

• Can manage several concurrent programs without dropping threads. Self-directed and organized.

• Willingto travel internationally including Asia and .

Education

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering Product Design Engineering or Industrial Design Engineering. Advanceddegreenotrequired; strong experience is what matters.

SharkNinjais a product company. The work that matters most is what shows up on shelves and in customers homes. If you want to lead a team that builds real things this is the role.