Senior Manager, AI & Org Transformation

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 our trusted brands Shark and Ninja, we bring disruptive innovation to market and drive significant growth across multiple product categories.

We’re building an AI‑native culture, experimenting boldly and adopting new tools to raise what’s possible for our consumers. If you believe the best way to do your job hasn’t been invented yet, you’ll fit right in.

This newly created role leads AI transformation across Product Development & Engineering. The Senior Manager is the embedded workforce strategy leader, 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. It is not a Human Resources Business Partner role; the focus is on how AI changes work, teams, and structure.

• Define the people strategy for AI adoption across Product Development & Engineering, covering workforce implications, role evolution, capability gaps, and adoption sequencing
• Build and maintain an AI transformation roadmap from a workforce perspective, aligned to the 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, and present findings to PD and HR leadership

• Lead org design analysis and role redesign efforts tied to AI adoption, in partnership with functional leaders
• 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, such as AI workflow leads, human‑AI teaming roles, AI adoption champions, and governance‑oriented positions
• Ensure job architecture, competency frameworks, and career paths reflect AI‑era skills and connect to downstream processes

• Identify high‑priority workflows affected by AI tools and lead redesign efforts with functional process owners
• Map current‑state workflows, surface automation opportunities and human‑AI handoff points, and design future‑state processes that are implementable
• Build a repeatable workflow redesign methodology for HRBPs and functional leaders to scale 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 address 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

• Align AI workforce transformation work with the broader people agenda, working closely with the Senior 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 the enterprise AI initiative leads to ensure PD&E workforce strategy is integrated, not siloed

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Organizational Development, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of progressive experience in people strategy, org design, workforce transformation, or business transformation
• Experience with AI and automation platforms such as Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power…