Senior Director, Industrial Design

SharkNinja•Needham, MA

3d•$165,000 - $245,000•Onsite

About The Position

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. At SharkNinja, we’re building an AI-native culture. We’re not waiting for the future; we’re creating it. Our people are expected to experiment boldly, adopt new tools, and continuously raise what’s possible to create meaningful impact for our consumers. If you believe the best way to do your job hasn’t been invented yet, you’ll fit right in. Senior Director, Industrial Design SharkNinja Shark and Ninja products are in tens of millions of homes. You would own how they look, feel, and get recognized. This is the top industrial design seat at SharkNinja. You set the design vision for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio, lead a global team of design leaders, and sit in the room where category and investment decisions are made — not downstream of them.

Requirements

15+ years in industrial design, including 8+ leading teams and demonstrated experience managing managers
Ownership of design strategy for a large, complex consumer portfolio, shipped at scale from concept through mass production
A body of work that shows brand-defining products, measurable consumer and commercial impact, and the teams and design cultures you built
Credibility with C-suite peers: framing design as a business lever, defending positions with evidence, converting vision into funded roadmaps
Experience building and scaling design organizations — org design, leveling frameworks, global structures, agency management
Deep fluency in manufacturing, materials, DFM, and CMF, with the judgment to trade design intent against cost, feasibility, and speed to market
Command of the modern toolchain: SolidWorks, Rhino, or equivalent 3D CAD; strong sketching and visual storytelling; an informed point of view on where AI-powered design and rendering tools belong in professional work
Bachelor's or Master's in Industrial Design, Product Design, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline

Responsibilities

Set the design vision for a multi-year ID strategy across the full Shark and Ninja portfolio, and the design language, standards, CMF, and ergonomics that make our products unmistakable in every market.
Lead a globally distributed, multi-layer ID team of managers and principal designers. This includes org design, hiring, leveling, succession, budget, headcount, and external agency partnerships.
Establish and maintain critique culture and craft standards that hold at scale, including when timeline and cost push against them. Make the final call when design intent and technical or commercial constraints collide.
Operate as a peer to executives in Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Brand, shaping what gets built rather than only how it looks — and connect design decisions to commercial outcomes you report on directly.
Develop and implement enterprise strategy for AI, generative design, and emerging technology in the design workflow: what to adopt, how to use it, and how it scales.
Represent SharkNinja design externally — with partners, at industry forums, in award programs — and make this a place the best designers want to work.