Program Manager - Ninja

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Needham, MA
Mid level
Beauty • Robotics • Design • Appliances • Manufacturing
Positively impacting people’s lives every day in every home around the world.
The Role
Program Managers at SharkNinja oversee the New Product Development process from concept to market. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive timelines, manage risks, and ensure high quality and efficiency. The role requires effective communication, leadership, and analysis of KPIs to support decision making, with a focus on delivering results and mitigating program risks.
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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.


Program Managers at SharkNinja assist in owning the entire New Product Development (NPD) process from concept to shelf for our Shark and Ninja Brands.  Associate Program Managers deliver sustainable, best in class product development thinking, governance, and process to enable the organization to execute the program portfolio flawlessly. Associate Program Managers work cross-functionally, providing exposure and visibility on a global scale acting in a general manager capacity.  Associate Program Managers lead via influence and are responsible for establishing and driving timelines and resources to develop, manufacture, and get products to market with a high degree of speed and efficiency ensuring a 5-star quality experience and high rate of sales.

A SharkNinja Program Manager thinks, acts and leads his/her programs like a global leader for every project or program they manage and owns the overall success of the program with a steady focus on Scope, Cost, and Schedule. Our Associate Program Managers are seen as the glue that holds the team together by owning communication streams across all groups in order to ensure that risks are mitigated, and deliverables are completed on time. They operate with urgency, ensuring that scope creep, cost risks, and schedule slips are escalated to senior management in parallel to driving resolutions. 

Program Managers are individual contributors, leading the organization through our unique SharkNinja product development process. This role is best suited for a professional who thrives, and has demonstrated success in a dynamic, fast paced product development environment. This role reports to one of our Directors of Program Managment in Ninja.

Responsibilities:

  • Drives and actively facilitate the interaction of cross-functional stakeholders to bring products to market, including managing risks, and schedule
  • Collaborate with teams to ensure that the go to market strategy will provide high rate of sales
  • Accountable to deliver all elements of the program, from product ideation to end-of-life
  • Make use of KPI’s and data to help drive decision making across the cross-functional teams
  • Identify program risks, develop mitigation/contingency and track progress
  • Spot resource and knowledge gaps and take steps necessary to highlight/remedy
  • Identify resource and knowledge gaps and take steps necessary to highlight/remedy
  • Channel global information to local teams, act as conduit to support the business

Requirements & Attributes:

  • Bachelor's Degree in technical/engineering or business management field highly desired
  • 3-4+ years direct Program management experience
  • Experience desired in some combination of new product development or program management (Consumer Goods Industry strongly preferred)
  • Assertive, confident, capable
  • Able to cultivate and lead a high performing team that delivers results
  • Excellent written, verbal and communication skills. Experienced addressing C-Suite, Peer Functional Groups, Suppliers, and Customer audiences
  • Cross-functional leadership skills
  • Possess a strong bias to action and accountability
  • Intermediate/working level skills with MS Project (or similar), Excel, PPT and Visio
  • High energy, with a positive attitude
  • Detail oriented
  • Presentation skills – Must be proficient with PowerPoint and be comfortable developing and presenting to large groups including executive management either in person or over MS Teams.



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.

 

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” 

 

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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 [email protected]

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The Company
HQ: Needham, MA
3,600 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1994

What We Do

SharkNinja redefines fast-paced. Bringing new, complex products to market in new categories every six months is not for the faint of heart. As a result, the talent that comprises our workforce is intelligent, committed, creative, and resilient no matter which department you call home. Everywhere you look here, you see the best of the best.

What makes SharkNinja unique is our method – almost a proprietary intensity – that is shared from top to bottom and produces incredible results. Ours is a winning team that creates the opportunity for anyone to be a winner. It’s a place where we can all (and are expected to) test, fail, learn, win, scale, and do it fast without ego. It’s not easy here by any stretch, but when you see that product that was just a sketch on a slide six months ago and is now on Amazon getting rave reviews, you can’t help but think, ‘Wow, look what we did together.’ If you like that feeling, then SharkNinja might be the place for you.

Why Work With Us

Whether your passion is engineering, designing, marketing, or developing, at SharkNinja you’ll find we’re all about people. We work together to create world-class products that delight our consumers. Building an admired consumer products problem solving engine is hard; we do it better than others by operating differently.

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