Senior Manager, R&D Biomechanical Engineering

Senior Manager, R&D Biomechanical Engineering

Needham, MA (On-Site)

Shark Ninja's products are used by hundreds of millions of people around the world — and the reason they work as well as they do comes down to the engineering. We're looking for a Senior Manager of R&D Biomechanical Engineering who wants to be at the center of that: leading the technical direction of breakthrough products, building a team of exceptional engineers, and shaping how Ninja's next generation of consumer technology gets made.

This isn't a role for someone who wants to manage from a distance. You'll be in the lab with your team one day and in front of senior leadership the next. You'll own the technical standard, the team culture, and the roadmap — from early-stage concept through mass production.

You'll lead a growing team of engineers focused on biomechanical research and product performance across Ninja's portfolio. That means setting technical direction, personally driving solutions on high-stakes programs, and making sure your team has the clarity, tools, and development they need to do their best work.

Specifically, you'll:

• Define and own the technical strategy across multiple concurrent R&D programs, connecting first-principles engineering to real consumer outcomes
• Be a hands-on technical leader — equally comfortable prototyping in the lab, running a rigorous design review, or presenting R&D findings to senior leadership
• Build and scale the team: recruiting top engineering talent, creating development paths, and cultivating a culture of intellectual honesty and continuous improvement
• Partner closely with cross-functional leaders across product, design, and operations to align technology development with business priorities
• Champion a "fail fast, learn fast" approach — compressing problems to their core requirements and iterating with both speed and rigor
• Identify and resolve technical risk early, before it becomes a business problem

You're a strong engineer first. You have deep fluency in mechanical engineering and physics fundamentals — heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, mechanical design — and the instincts to apply them in fast-moving, ambiguous environments. You've solved hard problems and can show your work.

You're also a leader people want to follow. You know how to set a high bar without burning your team out, how to give feedback that makes engineers better, and how to keep a team energized through the complexity of real product development.

Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related discipline (advanced degree a plus)
• 5–10+ years in product development with meaningful leadership responsibility in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment
• Experience leading teams across multiple concurrent projects, from early exploration through mass production
• Hands-on experience with biomechanical research applied to product design
• Comfort with test equipment, data analysis, and CAD fundamentals
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel or equivalent tools
• Exceptional communicator — able to translate complex technical work for non-technical stakeholders at the senior level

We move fast, we build things that actually ship, and we obsess over consumer experience in a way that's rare at our scale. You'll have real ownership, genuine cross-functional influence, and a team that's hungry to build something great. If you want to spend your career making products that reach people's homes and genuinely improve their lives — and leading the engineering team that makes it possible — this is the role.

Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual salary range for this position is displayed below. Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts (HSA) with company contribution, 401(k) retirement plan with matching, employee stock purchase program, life insurance,…