Manager - Product Compliance

About Us
SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company, with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positively impact people's lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja, the company has a proven track record of bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowed SharkNinja to enter multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts with more than 4,100 associates, the company's products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world.
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Product Safety & Compliance Manager
Global Product Compliance - Household Appliances & Medical devices
Our mission to positively impact people's lives every day in every home around the world allows our employees to be thinkers and tinkerers, designers and doers, makers of things they love. As we grow, we are excited to add a Product Safety & Compliance Manager to our global team.
Overview
We are looking for a highly organized, dynamic leader to join our product development teams, ensuring every new design is safe, meets retailer requirements, and complies with the laws and regulations of the countries where it is sold. You will partner across the organizations: Design and Electrical Engineering, Marketing, Supply Chain, Industrial Design, Quality, Manufacturing, Legal, and Senior Executives - and with external certification and test agencies (NRTLs, Notified Bodies), suppliers, factories, and distributors. You will lead a team of compliance engineers across a portfolio spanning household appliances and medical and wellness devices.
What You'll Do

• Lead certification planning for new product designs across all target markets (Americas, EU, UK, and rest of world).
• Communicate at all levels: translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable guidance for audiences from design engineers to Senior Executives, and present executive updates on NPD compliance status and risks.
• Hold the line on product safety: serve as the firm voice of safety in program decisions, pushing back when designs or schedules put compliance at risk while always offering a practical path forward.
• Apply AI to compliance work: use AI tools to accelerate standards research, regulatory documentation, technical file preparation, and project tracking, ensuring all AI-assisted output is validated by qualified engineering review.
• Manage and conduct design and construction reviews for risk analysis and mitigation; participate in and facilitate DFMEA activities.
• Project-manage safety and compliance activities: define deliverables, own certification timelines and lab resources, and keep concurrent NPD programs on schedule through stage gates.
• Lead identification and communication of market access requirements and serve as lead for international product extensions (EU, UK, and rest-of-world programs).
• Evaluate marketplace and consumer events for safety risks; design and drive team participation in market surveillance and post-market activities.
• Act as principal approver for safety, compliance, and marketing collateral (manuals, rating labels, packaging claims).
• Manage and coach direct reports to continuously drive high performance; participate in global talent development programs.
• Represent the company in standards development committees and trade associations.
• Hybrid role: 3 days per week onsite at our Needham, MA headquarters; 10-15% travel.

Standards & Regulations You'll Work With

• Household appliances - safety: IEC/UL/CSA 60335-1 and applicable Part 2 standards for our product categories (e.g., vacuums, kitchen and cooking appliances, liquid-heating appliances, skin and hair care, fans and air treatment), plus legacy UL standards where applicable (e.g., UL 1017, UL 982, UL 1026, UL 859, UL 507).
• Medical and wellness devices: IEC 60601-1 and applicable collateral standards (incl. IEC 60601-1-2 EMC and IEC 60601-1-11 home healthcare), ISO 14971 risk management, ISO 13485, IEC 62366-1 usability, FDA 510(k) pathways, 21 CFR Part 820, and EU MDR 2017/745.
• EMC and radio: FCC Part 15/18, CISPR 14-1/14-2, and RED/wireless requirements for connected products.
• Multi-market certification schemes: NRTL (cULus), CE marking (LVD, EMC, RoHS), UKCA, CB Scheme, NOM (Mexico), CCC (China), and applicable energy efficiency regulations (DOE, ErP).
• Chemical, environmental, and food contact: RoHS, REACH, California Proposition 65, and food-contact material requirements (FDA 21 CFR, EU 1935/2004) for kitchen products.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Electrical or Mechanical preferred, or a related engineering discipline). An engineering degree is a firm requirement for this role.
• 5+ years of compliance or design experience with consumer, commercial, or medical electromechanical products, including hands-on experience taking products through agency evaluation (NRTL, CB, Notified Body) from concept to production.
• Experience supervising engineering or test personnel.
• Working knowledge of the standards and regulations listed above, or directly transferable industry experience.
• Experience facilitating or participating in DFMEA sessions.
• AI literacy: demonstrated use of AI tools in a professional workflow, with sound judgment about verifying AI-generated output before it enters compliance records.

Who You Are

• Highly organized and detail-driven: you track status across many concurrent projects, keep documentation audit-ready, and never let certification milestones or design changes slip.
• A communicator at every level: equally effective explaining a creepage-distance issue to a design engineer, a certification risk to a program manager, and a portfolio-level compliance position to senior executives.
• Firm on safety, focused on resolution: you stand your ground under program pressure and bring a proposed solution to every escalation - compromising on approach, never on safety.
• AI-forward: you embrace new tools, integrate AI into your team's daily work, and coach others to use it well - critically, efficiently, and with engineering rigor.
• A people leader: you coach, develop, and hold a high bar for your team while building trust across functions.
• Comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities, delivering creative and technically sound solutions to complex problems.
• Analytically minded, driving continuous improvement in compliance processes, tools, and data.

Salary and Other Compensation: The annual salary range for this position is displayed below. Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts (HSA) with company contribution, 401(k) retirement plan with matching, employee stock purchase program, life insurance, AD&D, short-term disability insurance, long-term disability insurance, generous paid time off, company holidays, parental leave, identity theft protection, pet insurance, pre-paid legal insurance, back-up child and eldercare days, product discounts, referral bonus program, and more.
Pay Range
$130,000-$159,500 USD
Our Culture
At SharkNinja, we don't just raise the bar-we push past it every single day. Our Outrageously Extraordinary mindset drives us to tackle the impossible, push boundaries, and deliver results that others only dream of. If you thrive on breaking out of your swim lane, you'll be right at home.
What We Offer
We offer competitive health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, employee stock purchase options, wellness programs, SharkNinja product discounts, and more. We empower your personal and professional growth with high impact Learning Programs featuring bold voices redefining what's possible. When you join, you're not just part of a company-you're part of an outrageously extraordinary community. Together, we won't just launch products-we'll disrupt entire markets.
At SharkNinja, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are vital to our global success. Valuing each unique voice and blending all of our diverse skills strengthens SharkNinja's innovation every day. We support ALL associates in bringing their authentic selves to work, making an impact, and having the opportunity for career acceleration. With help from our leadership, associates, and our community, we aim to have equity be a key component of the SharkNinja DNA.
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