Senior Director, Talent Acceleration (US) & Global Head of Learning & Development

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.

AI at SharkNinja

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.

At SharkNinja culture is our engine for growth our True Edge and our competitive advantage. We keep the owner-founder ethos and the fierce winning spirit that shapes how we build teams develop talent and win. This role sits at the centre of that: it turns our culture and our ambitions for our people into learning experiences that change how Sharks lead manage and perform.

This is a dual-mandate role. On one side youlead Learning & Development globally accountable for building a high-performing L&D practice across every region. On the other youlead Talent Acceleration delivery in the US owning how our practices land day to day for Sharks across the Americas. You will run both in a matrix building the L&D capability that other regions draw on while delivering the fulltXagenda where you sit.

The role:

You are the enterprise owner of Learning & Development atSharkNinjaand the leader of Talent Acceleration delivery in the US. You build the L&D practice end to end multimodal instructional design and development delivery measurement and learning technology and you make sure it shows up as real capability for our managers leaders and employees not as a catalogue of programs.

The US Talent Acceleration team reports directly to you assigned functionally against the priorities that matter most at any given time. Learning & Development extends into other geographies as needs require placing people close to the business so design stays global and delivery stays local. You set the practice build the team and carry it through to impact.

What youll own:

Global Learning & Development practice

• Practice and strategy:own the vision standard and roadmap for L&D globally a high-performing practice in multimodal instructional design and development delivery measurement and learning technology coherent across the Americas EMEA and APAC.
• Design and development: build learning experiences across our priorities reinforcing our culture building our managers and leaders and upskilling our employees using the full range of modalities (in-person virtual digital social on-the-job and AI-enabled).
• Signature programs: own our global onboarding experience that immerses new hires in our culture and accelerates their impact our manager and leadership capability build and the culture programs that embed how we work into the organization.
• Learning technology and systems: own the learning technology stack and the systems platforms and infrastructure that let learning scale selecting integrating and getting value from the tools that carry the practice.
• Measurement and impact: define how we measure learning from engagement to capability to business outcome and use the data to sharpen what we build and retire what does not earn its place.
• AI-native learning: build L&D for an AI-first company weaving AI into how learning is designed delivered and scaled and into what Sharks are learning in step with our Jailbreak AI Academy and AI capability work.

US Talent Acceleration delivery

• Regional delivery lead:own how the full Talent Acceleration agenda culture learning and leadership development succession and performance is delivered for Sharks across the Americas the US peer to our regionaltXleads in EMEA and APAC.
• Team leadership: lead develop and grow the UStXteam setting priorities raising the bar on delivery and building the bench.
• Business partnership: partner with US business and P&C leaders to translate enterprisetXpriorities into whatactually landsin theregion andbring regional signal back into the global practice.
• Execution and operations: run the calendars cadences and delivery mechanics that keep the regional agenda moving on time on quality and visibly connected to our priorities.

Leading in the matrix

• Functional assignment:your US team reports to you directly and flexes onto the priorities that need them most effort follows what matters not fixed lanes.
• Global design local delivery: place L&D talent in other geographies as needs require keeping design consistent globally while delivery stays close to the business.

What success looks like:

• Builds L&D from a set of programs into a high-performing measurable practice that managers leaders and employees experience as real capability.
• Leads confidently in a matrix holding a clear global L&D standard while delivering the full tX agenda in the US and keeping accountability clean where talent is shared across lines.
• Ships learning experiences that visibly move our priorities culture manager and leadership capability and workforce upskilling and can prove the impact with data.
• Builds and grows a strong US tX team and a global L&D bench developing people and raising delivery quality.
• Influences senior decision-makers with a solution-oriented approach; comfortable presenting to and being challenged by executive stakeholders.
• A curious courageous builder rolls up sleeves where it counts embraces obstacles and holds a long-term view on capability.

Desired experience:

• Proven leadership of a Learning & Development function or practice across instructional design and development delivery measurement and learning technology ideally at global scale.
• Track record designing and facilitating high-impact learning across multiple modalities including manager leadership and culture / onboarding programs.
• Experience leading in a matrix managing solid-line reports across geographies and delivering through shared or dotted-line talent.
• Strong measurement and data orientation: defines learning metrics reads the trends and uses them to drive investment and design decisions.
• Comfort with AI-enabled ways of working and enthusiasm for building AI-forward learning.
• Advanced degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology Learning Education Human Resources or a related field with 10 years of progressive experience; or equivalent depth. People-leadership experience required.
• Excellent facilitation communication and stakeholder skills; strong program and project management across competing priorities.

EmbodiesSharkNinjas Success Drivers:

RarelySatisfied Progress overPerfection Details Make theDifference Winning is a TeamSport Communicate for Impact

Who thrives here:

You thrive here if:

• You dont wait for permission you see a challenge and own it.
• You embrace discomfort growth happens on the edge of possibility.
• You dont just deliver programs you build capability that changes how people work.
• You play to win repeatedly. Winning today fuels winning tomorrow.
• You thrive on unvarnished feedback it fuels your growth.
• You ask How can we make this happen faster bigger better
• You execute with urgency rapidly iterating identifying gaps and pivoting.

SharkNinjaisnt for everyone. But if youre ready to build talent capability at a scale most companies only talk about this is your place. Welcome toSharkNinja. Were just getting started.

Leveling note:

Evolution of the existing US Talent Acceleration Lead role expanded to carry global accountability for Learning & Development in a matrix. Scoped at Senior Director. Pending Total Rewards leveling validation and compensation range.