(Summer) Technical Program Manager Intern: May to August 2024
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.
*Note: this role is for a Summer (May to August 2024) Internship or post-graduate internship*
In-Office (Needham, MA), Full Time
Summary of Position
We are looking for co-ops to help us create a new generation of innovative products across our Shark & Ninja ranges. These roles cover the design process from proof of concept and technology validation through to mass manufacture. We thrive on designing great products that delight our customers. Working as part of our US, you will bring fresh thinking and inspiration to our creative efforts to deliver credible solutions to populate our product road map, and ultimately to the market.
Essential Functions
- Help originate novel concepts and technologies for our next generation of products.
- Work with wider team to define elegant but robust solutions to satisfy the products functional requirements.
- Collaborates on design studies (with wider team) to solve technical or consumer issues found in the development of a product.
- Build test rigs in the lab while supporting the execution of verification and validation test plans.
- Inject energy, enthusiasm and creativity into everything you touch.
- Be naturally curious and relentlessly driven to find better solutions to everyday problems.
- Demonstrate integrity and courage in the way you work, breaking the mold isn’t easy.
Attributes and Skills
- A natural and effective communicator capable of reducing abstract concepts to reality.
- Able to quickly generate visual and physical definitions of new products that convey key attributes of function and layout.
- Inject energy, enthusiasm and creativity into everything you touch.
- Be naturally curious and relentlessly driven to find better solutions to everyday problems.
- Demonstrate integrity and courage in the way you work, breaking the mold isn’t easy.
Education and Experience
- Undertaking a degree in Product Design, Product Design Engineering, Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering or similar
- Is passionate about product design
- Has had some exposure to a CAD program (ideally SolidWorks or Creo) and or 3D printing/laser cutting
- Can identify, solve, implement and verify technical solutions autonomously and as part of a team.
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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