Vice President - Floorcare Engineering
We seek a Vice President, Floorcare Engineering to build and lead a Floorcare team that will continue to grow SharkNinja’s market leadership in this area. In partnership with the SVP, Global Floorcare, the VP will lead the identification and development of innovative and emerging technologies with an unwavering passion for delivering innovative new products across our global business. You will relentlessly and successfully drive the Advanced Development, R&D, NPD and NPI functions while solving real consumer needs with a focus on both the short-term and long-term product roadmap. You have the mindset that anything is possible and possess the willingness to do whatever it takes to win.
Working closely with suppliers and other external partners, you will build and develop strategic relationships with those who share our goal of continuous innovation and breakthrough thinking. SharkNinja has a very fast-paced development environment so your ability to lead and inspire globally distributed engineering teams that bring products to market, faster than our competition, is critical. As the global leader of this category, you will own the development, design and engineering across all technical disciplines from concept to mass production. Your passion will show in both the product innovation and in the consumer experience.
Responsibilities:
- Consistently identify and develop innovative and emerging technologies that enable SharkNinja to deliver market leading 5-star products:
- Continue to define, develop and build the Floorcare Engineering function at SharkNinja that balances both short and long-term objectives
- Ensure all activities are aligned with the product roadmap and our focus on solving real consumer needs
- Provide hands on technical expertise to identify, prioritize and solve problems quickly and efficiently
- Identify key risks, develop mitigation strategies and concurrent development paths
- Balance the need to meet short development timelines with an unwavering resolve while maintaining a relentless focus on long-term projects to deliver on future innovative products
- Own the development, design and engineering across all technical disciplines from concept to mass production
- Build long term, mutually beneficial supplier relationships and identify and develop strategic partnerships that drive innovation and support our goal of being the technology leader in all product categories:
- Consistently find and assess new suppliers that will drive shared outcomes and accountabilities while working within our fast-paced development environment
- Invigorate and inspire suppliers and partners to focus all the resources they have on winning our business
- Build an internal team of subject matter experts to develop more technologies in house and to maximize external partnerships
- Build, retain, and manage a 90%+ A-player team:
- Build and develop an internal global team of R&D, Advanced Development, NPI and NPD Engineers who will innovate and drive our road map of 5-star products
- Rapidly develop an understanding of the business and design the organization needs to execute on growth and profitability goals
- Build out the R&D, Advanced Development, NPI and New Product Development functions and internal capabilities
- Operate as a SharkNinja senior leader.
- Be an enterprise-level problem solver having a can-do, solution-oriented mindset (that the impossible can be achieved)
- Be relentless, resourceful, and entrepreneurial (constantly look for ways to do things better)
- Be nimble and flexible; adapt quickly to changing circumstances or new insights
- Be in the details and hands on; think strategically but drive to action
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering; Master’s in Engineering preferred, with a history of success in floorcare or related area
- 12+ years leadership experience in new product development focused on innovation and emerging technologies within a consumer product driven company
- System-level understanding of the fundamental technologies required to build floorcare products and the impact of consumer product cost constraints on system design & performance
- Mechanical and/or Electrical Engineering background
- Strong experience building global supplier relationships, as well as measuring supplier performance and developing innovation plans that drives supplier value
- Demonstrated understanding of the business environment and relevant key strategic, development and operational drivers
- Ability to balance being hands on and into the details with having the 30,000 feet perspective
- Intuition on what consumers want and what works in the marketplace, ability to take in new learnings from field research
- Open to pursuing multiple paths to get to the best solution
- Willingness to fail quickly in order to succeed sooner when generating disruptive product concepts
- Passionate about the voice of the consumer
- Ability to work cross functionally and own the success of the products jointly with the other disciplines
- Previous experience working with global teams and with products manufactured in China
- Demonstrable passion and experience for design and engineering in related category
- Ability to travel globally, including trips to China and the UK
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 create the next big thing. We take a team approach to our projects, where everyone has a voice. We want individuals to push limits, look outside the box and think the unthinkable. With the explosive growth we have been experiencing, we’re looking for motivated individuals to join us on our exciting journey. People need to think big, move fast and want to make a significant impact. Are you ready?