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Director, Product Design Engineering

Company: SharkNinja Operating LLC
Location: Needham, MA
Posted on: December 21, 2018

Job Description:

Position: Director, Product Design Engineering (Needham, Massachusetts)

Duties: Develop new product concepts for the Shark brand, which include

vacuum cleaners, steam mops, hard floor care products, and garment care

products. Solve consumers’ real world problems with viable product

concepts and transition these into Advanced Development projects. Conduct

research and identify gaps in customer insight and need, and lead the

development of new innovative solutions to address those gaps. Maintain

updates and prepare organization for transition of Advanced Development

projects to full scale New Product Development. Explore new market

opportunities and portfolio propositions, and analyze trends for global

markets and report findings to product development teams. Interpret data

and test results and develop action plans. Provide clear, concise and

transparent updates to senior leadership of the company on a regular

cadence. Transition concepts from Advanced Development to the NPD/NPI team,

and collaborate with team members based in China to transfer design intent

and get early manufacturing feedback on new product concepts. Set design

strategy and priorities, design development from initial concept to on-going product support, and create visual and functional prototypes for research and internal review. Collaborate with ID, Quality and Product Marketing leaders to innovate, design and implement simple and elegant design solutions. Sketch concepts for conceptual brainstorming as well as for presentation. Manage projects with Euro

going product support, and create visual and functional prototypes for

research and internal review. Collaborate with ID, Quality and Product

Marketing leaders to innovate, design and implement simple and elegant

design solutions. Sketch concepts for conceptual brainstorming as well as

for presentation. Manage projects with Euro-Pro’s technology partners.

Requirements: Master's degree in Product Design, Mechanical Engineering,

Industrial Design, or a related field (willing to accept foreign education

equivalent) plus three (3) years of experience designing high-volume

consumer products and leading design and development of complex integrated

assemblies and engineering systems or, alternatively, a Bachelor's degree

in one of the enumerated fields and five (5) years of experience as stated

above. Specific skills/other requirements: Demonstrated ability to sketch

and visually communicate ideas quickly and effectively as well as a hand

sketching technique suitable for executive presentation. Demonstrated

expertise in SolidWorks and/or ProE/Creo 3D CAD systems; Demonstrated

expertise participating in ID brainstorms, up front concept sketching and

ID surfacing; Demonstrated expertise training and mentoring junior staff to

deliver quick, hacked prototypes through to detailed DFM mechanisms that

prove out early concepts or technical feasibility. Demonstrated expertise

liaising with Asian manufacturing partners on high volume consumer

products. Demonstrated expertise in user-centered design, including the

implementation of feedback into the design. Demonstrated expertise

presenting design ideas to the senior management team as well as the

marketing department. Compilation of an original portfolio of creative work

that clearly demonstrates a product development process. Submit resume to SharkNinja

SharkNinja Operating LLC, Danielle Benn, 89 A Street, Suite 100, Needham, M

Massachusetts 02494.

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