Senior Innovation Technical Project Manager

About Us Shark Ninja 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 Shark Ninja 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. AI at Shark Ninja At Shark Ninja, 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 Innovation Technical Project Manager (iTPM) Technology Incubation Group Needham, MA Where New Products Begin Before a product gets a name, a launch date, or a development budget, it has to survive the hardest phase of all: early-stage innovation. The ideas are ambitious, the constraints are real, and the path forward is rarely obvious.

This is exactly where the Innovation Technical Project Manager operates - and it's one of the most consequential roles in Shark Ninja's product organization. As iTPM, you'll sit at the center of the Technology Incubation Group, driving early-stage programs from initial vision through prototype - the phase where the most important decisions get made and the most value gets created or destroyed.

This is not a coordination role. It's a senior leadership position with real accountability, real authority, and direct access to the most senior levels of the business. What You'll Own You're the single accountable owner of your programs from Vision through prototype handoff to the NPD group. That means you define what's being built, why it matters commercially, and hold a global cross-functional organization to schedule and cost from day one.

In practice, that looks like:
Building and maintaining integrated master program schedules across all work streams - mechanical, electrical, firmware, industrial design, and commercial readiness Driving alignment on product direction across engineering, design, commercial, finance, and supply chain teams globally Leading structured milestone reviews at Vision, V0, P1, and P2 - preparing materials, facilitating decisions, and ensuring clear documented outcomes Owning the risk register from day one: identifying, escalating, and resolving critical path risks before they hit cost or timeline Serving as the primary interface between the Innovation TPM team and the NPD PMO, enabling clean, structured handoffs at P2 Delivering sharp, accurate program updates to executive leadership - bringing clarity and structure to high-pressure, ambiguous situations Contributing to the continuous improvement of Shark Ninja's early-stage iTPM playbook What You Bring You have an engineering background and the commercial instincts to match.

You can interrogate a mechanical design, read a programme schedule, and challenge a strategic decision - all in the same morning. You're at your best when the problem is unstructured and the stakes are high.

Required:

Engineering background with 5+ years in a TPM, PM, or senior engineering project management role Demonstrated experience managing programs across the full product lifecycle, ideally including early-stage consumer products or electronics Proven ability to run integrated schedules across multiple engineering work streams simultaneously Track record of influencing and presenting to senior and executive stakeholders Solid understanding of manufacturing processes, tooling, and DFM constraints - consumer electronics and plastics experience strongly preferred Comfortable creating structure and driving alignment in ambiguous, fast-moving environments Nice to Have:
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