AI Designer

SharkNinja•Needham, MA

2d•$85,800 - $90,000•Onsite

About The Position

SharkNinja is seeking a visionary AI Designer to sit at the intersection of front-end product innovation, generative design, and operational automation. Based out of their global headquarters in Needham, MA, the AI Designer will work hand-in-hand with Advanced Development engineering teams, Industrial Designers, and executive leaders. The mission is twofold: leverage generative AI tools to radically accelerate physical and digital product prototyping, and design custom AI prompts, assistants, and intelligent workflows that remove mechanical friction across global business units. SharkNinja is building an AI-native culture, re-engineering how consumer products are invented, prototyped, and brought to market.

Requirements

3+ Years in Design / Product Development: Background in Industrial Design, Interaction Design, Product Design Engineering, or a highly technical creative field.
Mastery of Generative Design Tools: Advanced, demonstrable expertise in prompt engineering and image/asset generation platforms (Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, Adobe Firefly, or similar).
Fluency with Enterprise AI Assistants: Deep practical experience leveraging large language models (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) to accelerate research, data synthesis, and workflow modeling.
A Systems Thinker: Ability to analyze a manual, fragmented business or creative process and design a scalable, AI-driven automation framework to solve it.
The "Tinkerer" Mindset: A relentless curiosity and passion for rapid iteration. You thrive on hands-on experimentation, mapping out workflows, and building functional prototypes.

Responsibilities

Partner with industrial design and product engineering teams to use Generative AI systems (Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Vizcom, etc.) for rapid 2D/3D concept generation and product visualization.
Design, test, and deploy customized AI prompts, agents, and custom GPT environments to automate and optimize repetitive creative and operational processes.
Act as an internal evangelist by creating frameworks, playbooks, and training sessions to help cross-functional teams integrate advanced AI assistants into their daily tasks.
Collaborate with UI/UX and mobile app teams to explore how consumer-facing AI experiences can enhance physical hardware ecosystems (smart home, connected kitchen, etc.).
Continuously source, stress-test, and onboard emerging foundational models, plugins, and software to ensure SharkNinja remains at the absolute bleeding edge of design automation.