Vice President - Product Development - Skincare

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 3,600+ associates, the company’s products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world.

The Product Development organization within Shark Ninja drives our global product roadmap from concept to shelf through the constant lens of the consumer. We are the “product CEOs” and partner cross‑functionally with almost every other team within the company to drive high satisfaction for our end user and to drive business results. We are comprised of individuals from a variety of professional and educational backgrounds, from product marketing managers to consumer‑focused engineers – but we all have one thing in common: we’re consistently striving to deliver a 5‑star experience for every customer on every product we bring to market.

The Vice President of Product Development will drive a cross‑functional team to deliver against consumer satisfaction, revenue, and profitability targets. The ideal candidate will be able to successfully deliver 5‑star products to market while collaborating on the business and go‑to‑market strategy with key partners across the organization.

This role will also bring elevated expertise in skincare and beauty‑tech consumer products—potentially including devices that border on medical‑device classifications—ensuring rigorous user safety standards, claims substantiation, clinical testing integration, and compliance considerations throughout development.

• Drive the Shark Ninja business with the development of successful and profitable programs for a full product category, ensuring continued growth of the product portfolio. You will lead new product development (creation and management) of assigned product categories from brainstorm through mass production, as well as partner with the SVP to define the over‑arching category roadmap. This includes skincare and beauty‑tech devices, where you will guide the integration of dermatological insights, user‑safety requirements, and regulated‑claims considerations into the product strategy.
  
  You are responsible and accountable for progressing, reporting on, and actioning your and your team’s deliverables.
• Lead, manage, and grow team members (Intern through Manager level) within the organization – providing guidance on their assigned projects, ensuring product success, supporting professional advancement, and holding them accountable to their responsibilities. You will be viewed as an “expert” people leader with proficiency navigating people, conflict, and resource management, including mentoring teams developing skincare, topical‑interaction, wearable, or device‑adjacent medical technologies.
• Identify emerging trends and consumer preferences—including shifts in beauty, skincare science, wellness technology, and device‑driven skincare treatments—to drive innovation that aligns with consumer needs and regulatory boundaries.
• Steer the development of user‑relevant design targets for product performance and user experience, acting as the beacon of these targets for engineers, industrial designers, and commercial marketers. This includes safety, efficacy, and human‑factors criteria for skincare and medical‑device‑adjacent products, ensuring products meet high standards for skin compatibility, clinical validation, and precise user interaction.
• Partner with Consumer Insights to develop testing objectives and incorporate consumer feedback into product design. For skincare and device‑adjacent products, this may include clinical evaluation protocols, dermatologist‑driven studies, panel testing, and claims validation programs.
• Partner with testing and…