Senior Manager, People & Culture Innovation

About The Role

Shark Ninja is integrating AI across Product Development and Engineering as a structural shift in how teams work, design, and deliver. This new role leads that transformation. The Senior Manager, People & Culture Innovation, AI & Org Transformation is the embedded workforce strategy leader for PD&E, focused on translating AI capability into practical implications for roles, workflows, job architecture, and operating models.

The work spans AI workforce planning, org design, work redesign, and change enablement.

• Define the people strategy for AI adoption across PD&E, covering workforce implications, role evolution, capability gaps, and adoption sequencing.
• Build and maintain an AI transformation roadmap from a workforce perspective, aligned to Shark Ninja's enterprise AI initiative and commercial priorities.
• Monitor GenAI and agentic AI trends and translate them into actionable workforce strategy.
• Develop KPIs and measurement frameworks to track AI adoption, workforce readiness, productivity impact, and organizational effectiveness. Present findings to PD and HR leadership.

• Lead org design analysis and role redesign efforts tied to AI adoption across PD&E, in partnership with functional leaders and the P&C team.
• Apply task-level decomposition to determine which work should remain human‑led, be AI‑augmented, be automated, or require human‑AI handoffs, and design job architectures accordingly.
• Define emerging role types needed for AI‑enabled work: AI workflow leads, human‑AI teaming roles, AI adoption champions, etc.
• Ensure job architecture, competency frameworks, and career paths reflect AI‑era skills and connect to downstream P&C processes including hiring, performance, and compensation.

• Identify high‑priority PD&E workflows affected by AI tools and lead redesign efforts in partnership with functional process owners.
• Map current‑state workflows, surface automation opportunities and human‑AI handoff points, and design future‑state processes.
• Build a repeatable workflow redesign methodology that HRBPs and functional leaders can use to scale this work across teams and product categories.
• Apply structured process improvement approaches and establish feedback loops to measure impact over time.

• Lead change planning for AI workforce initiatives across PD&E, including stakeholder engagement, communications strategy, and adoption sequencing.
• Develop change strategies that account for workforce anxiety, role evolution, and the cultural dynamics of an engineering and design‑heavy population.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior PD&E leaders on the human side of AI adoption.
• Equip leaders with messaging, decision frameworks, and adoption support materials.

• Operate as a P&C specialist focused on AI workforce transformation, not a generalist HRBP.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and Total Rewards to connect AI‑driven job design outputs to hiring, performance, and compensation frameworks.
• Collaborate with Shark Ninja's enterprise AI initiative leads to ensure PD&E workforce strategy is integrated, not siloed.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in HR, people strategy, org design, workforce transformation, or business transformation.
• At least 3 years working directly in or alongside Product Development, Engineering, R&D, Data, AI, or another technical function.
• Demonstrated experience leading or contributing to org design, job architecture, or role redesign efforts in the context of a major AI, digital, or operational transformation.
• Expert working knowledge of AI, GenAI, and agentic AI concepts.
• Experience in workflow mapping, task analysis, or business process improvement.
• Strong analytical, executive communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to operate in a fast‑moving, matrixed environment where priorities…