Senior Product Design Engineer, Advanced Development

at  SharkNinja

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.
As a Senior Product Design Engineer, AD you will help us create a new generation of innovative products across our Shark range. We thrive on designing great products that delight our customers. Working as part of our London Design Office, you will bring technical substance and inspiration to our creative efforts to deliver credible solutions populate our product road map.

REQUIREMENTS

• BSc/BA in Product Design, Industrial Design Engineering, or relevant experience in R&D, consumer product development, or product design.
• 8+ years’ experience in new product development focused on innovation and emerging technologies within a consumer product driven company or consultancy.
• Extensive experience working on user-centered innovation projects and passionate about understanding consumer needs.
• Proven track record of creating and implementing robust, elegant, and innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Intuition on what consumers want and what works in the marketplace.
• Willingness to fail quickly in order to succeed sooner when generating disruptive product concepts.
• Ability to sketch and visually communicate ideas quickly and effectively.
• Ability to build prototypes of varying levels of fidelity and speed, from rough mock-ups to breadboard prototypes, to fully functional prototypes with designed surfaces.
• Open to pursuing multiple paths to get to the best solution, and not being too proud of your own ideas to listen to others or try out alternate ideas.
• CAD proficiency in ProE/Creo or SolidWorks and Keyshot.
• 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 team environment.
• Respect and understanding of other disciplines, including Marketing, Industrial Design, User Experience, Electronics, Quality, Consumer Insights and Manufacturing.
• Intuition on what consumers want and what works in the marketplace, ability to take in new learnings from field research.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, deadline driven environment.
• Ability to travel globally, including trips to the U.S and China (3-4 weeks per year on average).

ROLE FUNCTIONS:

• Generates novel concepts and technologies for our next generation of products with a ‘build to think’ mentality.
• Successfully mentors a team of A-players, helping them to reach their full potential. Actively coaches members of the team and provide development opportunities.
• Takes overall ownership of designs through conception, prototyping, CAD execution, and verification, whilst consistently working at pace and successfully develops team to do the same.
• Continuously challenges the team to evaluate and improves designs for cost efficiency, manufacturing improvements, increased quality and value to consumers.
• Sets challenging schedules and timelines, drives to decisions and focuses on the minimal viable prototypes to move forwards.
• Applies sound engineering/product design standards to support the team in delivery of real solutions.
• Applies understanding & experience of high-volume manufacturing processes and materials to optimize designs.
• Communicates professionally with colleagues and can influence at a high level.
• 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.
• Applies design thinking to understand and solve real consumer problems and translate these into Advanced Development projects
• Challenges assumptions and thinks innovatively to solve complex problems creatively
• Work as an individual contributor or as a team leader on multiple projects of varying size, scope, and complexity–while responding quickly to shifting priorities
• Participates in peer design reviews. Thinks critically and inquisitively about new product concepts and asks the provocative kinds of questions that other designers
• Collaborates with the R&D team to explore and integrate new technologies bring new technologies into SharkNinja’s next generation products, and to initiate the exploration of new technologies
• Hold cross-functional brainstorming ideation sessions and encourage innovative thinking.
• Contributes to the business through other activities (i.e. DEI, volunteering, NPD, development, Breakthrough, etc.)

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