Senior Innovation Technical Project Manager

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.

Senior Innovation Technical Project Manager (iTPM)

Technology Incubation Group Needham MA

Where New Products Begin

Before a product gets a name a launch date or a development budget it has to survive the hardest phase of all: early-stage innovation. The ideas are ambitious the constraints are real and the path forward is rarely obvious. This is exactly where the Innovation Technical Project Manager operates and its one of the most consequential roles in SharkNinjas product organization.

As iTPM youll sit at the center of the Technology Incubation Group driving early-stage programs from initial vision through prototype the phase where the most important decisions get made and the most value gets created or destroyed. This is not a coordination role. Its a senior leadership position with real accountability real authority and direct access to the most senior levels of the business.

What Youll Own

Youre the single accountable owner of your programs from Vision through prototype handoff to the NPD group. That means you define whats being built why it matters commercially and hold a global cross-functional organization to schedule and cost from day one.

In practice that looks like:

• Building and maintaining integrated master program schedules across all workstreams mechanical electrical firmware industrial design and commercial readiness
• Driving alignment on product direction across engineering design commercial finance and supply chain teams globally
• Leading structured milestone reviews at Vision V0 P1 and P2 preparing materials facilitating decisions and ensuring clear documented outcomes
• Owning the risk register from day one: identifying escalating and resolving critical path risks before they hit cost or timeline
• Serving as the primary interface between the Innovation TPM team and the NPD PMO enabling clean structured handoffs at P2
• Delivering sharp accurate program updates to executive leadership bringing clarity and structure to high-pressure ambiguous situations
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of SharkNinjas early-stage iTPM playbook

What You Bring

You have an engineering background and the commercial instincts to match. You can interrogate a mechanical design read a programme schedule and challenge a strategic decision all in the same morning. Youre at your best when the problem is unstructured and the stakes are high.

Required:

• Engineering background with 5 years in a TPM PM or senior engineering project management role
• Demonstrated experience managing programs across the full product lifecycle ideally including early-stage consumer products or electronics
• Proven ability to run integrated schedules across multiple engineering workstreams simultaneously
• Track record of influencing and presenting to senior and executive stakeholders
• Solid understanding of manufacturing processes tooling and DFM constraints consumer electronics and plastics experience strongly preferred
• Comfortable creating structure and driving alignment in ambiguous fast-moving environments

Nice to Have:

• Experience in pre-P2 / early-stage innovation or concept development environments
• Familiarity with stage-gate processes in a product-led consumer goods company
• PMP PRINCE2 or equivalent certification
• Budget management and P&L literacy at the program level
• Global team exposure across US UK and China
• SolidWorks or Creo proficiency ability to read and interrogate engineering design data

Who Thrives in This Role

The people who succeed here are technically credible and commercially sharp confident enough to challenge direction at the most senior levels and collaborative enough to build trust quickly across engineering design and business teams. They bring discipline to ambiguity without slowing things down and theyre genuinely excited by the early-stage work that most organizations find hardest to manage well.

If that sounds like you wed like to talk.