Manager, Embedded Firmware Delivery

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Shark Ninjais a global product design and technology company, with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positivelyimpactpeople’s lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja, the company has a proven track recordof bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowed

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Ninjato enter multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts with more than4,100associates, the company’s products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world.

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Needham, MA

This is a working leadership role — you lead the team and you still read the code.

As Manager, Embedded Firmware Delivery, you own day-to-day delivery for Shark Ninja's embedded firmware organization: schedule, quality, and scope for the firmware programs and platform work we keep internally. You'll lead a team of Senior Embedded Firmware Developers implementing the designs, carrying enough technical depth to review their code, make day-to-day design calls, and unblock them when something stalls.

You’ll report to the Director, Embedded Firmware, as a peer to the Embedded Firmware Architecture manager. That manager owns the standards and architecture applied to the designs; you own implementation and feature delivery against them, and you decide how the team's time gets spent across concurrent programs.

• Lead, hire, and develop the delivery-focused Senior Embedded Firmware Developers within the US embedded firmware team.
• Delivery commitments for internally developed embedded firmware — schedule, quality, and scope.
• Code review, day-to-day technical direction, and design guidance for the team, with enough hands-on depth to make credible technical calls.
• Workload allocation, sprint planning, and capacity across concurrent programs.

• Deliver firmware in the areas retained internally: device control, OTA, and differentiated product features.
• Execute against defined architecture, interface, and HAL standards.
• Ensure firmware integrates cleanly with hardware, cloud services, mobile applications, and user interfaces.
• Enforce engineering standards within the team — feature branches, PR-gated merges with required approvals, ticket-linked commits, unit test coverage, and static analysis on every merge.

• Partner with other global firmware leadership on programs spanning multiple sites and on shared platform work.
• Work with the Software TPM on program sizing, schedule commitments, and cross-program dependencies.
• Support Quality on release readiness, defect triage, and gate criteria.
• Partner with Hardware Engineering, Systems, and NPD through bring-up and integration.

• Drive adoption of automated testing, CI discipline, and code quality practices within the team.
• Contribute to the reproducibility standard — ensuring internally developed programs meet the same source, toolchain, and build manifest requirements applied to partners.
• Identify and reduce technical debt across internally owned codebases.

• 8+ years of embedded software and firmware engineering.
• 2+ years leading or formally mentoring embedded…