Design Engineering Manager
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.
Summary Of Position
We are looking for a Design Manager, to lead our NPD team building a new generation of innovative products for the Shark brand. We thrive on designing great products that delight our customers. Working as part of our Boston HQ, you will bring technical substance and inspiration to our creative efforts to deliver credible solutions to the market.
Role Functions:
YOUR ROLE in leading our SUCCESS DRIVERS & representing our UNIQUE MINDSET
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Summary Of Position
We are looking for a Design Manager, to lead our NPD team building a new generation of innovative products for the Shark brand. We thrive on designing great products that delight our customers. Working as part of our Boston HQ, you will bring technical substance and inspiration to our creative efforts to deliver credible solutions to the market.
Role Functions:
- Leads team to carry out design studies (independently and in teams) to solve technical issues found in the development of a product.
- Gathers insight from professional and consumer feedback and guides team to implement into streamlined design solutions.
- Successfully develops a team of A-players, helping them to reach their full potential.
- Manages the hiring and expansion of the team inline with the business growth in the category.
- Takes overall ownership of designs through conception, CAD execution, prototyping and verification, whilst consistently working at pace & successfully develops team to do the same.
- Continuously evaluates and improves designs for cost efficiency, manufacturing improvements, increased quality and value to consumers.
- Applies sound engineering/ product design standards to deliver real solutions.
- Applies understanding & experience of high-volume manufacturing processes and materials to optimize designs.
- Communicates effectively and professionally with colleagues.
- Leads clear and effective communication of engineering progress and risk to executive leadership.
- Collaborates seamlessly with our U.S. and China based Product Development teams, multi-functional teams and executive teams to ensure that great ideas make it through to production.
- Degree level technical qualification, ideally Product Design Engineering, Mechanical or Industrial Design Engineering.
- Typically 2+ years people management experience.
- Typically 7-10 years proven experience in Mechanical/ Product Design/ Industrial Design environment.
- Team management experience.
- Experience in the consumer goods household appliance space desirable.
- Experience in plastic manufacturing processes.
- Experience of delivering real world products to market.
- Uses Solidworks or Creo to a high level, demonstrable experience leading CAD reviews.
- Can motivate your team to identify, solve, implement and verify technical solutions autonomously.
- Can effectively manage the “hands-on” - building of prototypes, product testing in the lab, developing and reporting.
- Flexible and collaborative- these are key to success at SharkNinja.
- Positive, driving attitude with an inquisitive nature.
- Appreciation for electrical engineering, software and UX design helpful but not essential.
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”
SharkNinja's Candidate Privacy Notice can be found here: https://www.sharkninja.com/candidate-privacy-notice/
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other class protected by legislation, and local law. SharkNinja will consider reasonable accommodations consistent with legislation, and local law. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact SharkNinja People & Culture at accommodations@sharkninja.com
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