Chief of Staff - Chief Product Officer

• Serve as the CPO's primary operating partner; own the rhythm of the business including staff meetings QBRs leadership offsites Board prep and ELT reviews.

• Synthesize inputs across the Product Development organization into crisp decision-ready executive materials and pre-reads.

• Monitor and manage the CPO's strategic agenda; ensure priorities are reflected consistently across the organization and protected from coordination drift.

• Identify and resolve cross-functional friction early before it escalates to the CPO or requires executive intervention.

• Represent the CPO's perspective in senior forums cross-functional meetings and planning sessions when delegation is appropriate.

• **Leverage AI tools to synthesize portfolio signals surface strategic risks and equip the CPO with faster higher-quality decision support.

• Drive annual roadmap dollarization and long-range planning processes across product categories in partnership with Finance and Product leadership.

• Maintain visibility across the full strategic initiative landscape; surface misalignments between strategy roadmap and resourcing and bring recommendations to the CPO.

• Partner with Finance and HR on horizon 1-3 investment planning headcount strategy and org design decisions.

• Champion targeted tool investments tied to operating visibility roadmap confidence or decision-making speed.

• **Deploy AI-enhanced portfolio intelligence to surface roadmap risks prioritization tradeoffs and resource gaps earlier and with greater precision.

• Actively unblock cross-functional issues across Product Operations Finance and Legal.

• Facilitate alignment on roadmap tradeoffs investment priorities and strategic decisions without relying on authority.

• Incubate and oversee net-new programs and initiatives tied to enterprise strategic objectives as assigned by the CPO.

• Build deep trusted working relationships across the PD leadership team ELT peers and key functional partners.

• Ensure cross-functional stakeholders have the context and clarity needed to execute against shared priorities.

• Own the CPO's cross-category geographic expansion agenda; translate global market entry priorities into product decisions resourcing and roadmap sequencing in partnership with regional and commercial leadership.

• Identify and size geo expansion opportunities across SharkNinja's 32 global markets; surface white space assess market readiness and build the analytical case that connects geo growth to product investment decisions.

• Lead the development and operationalization of SharkNinja's cross-category loyalty strategy; define the program architecture align stakeholders across Product Marketing and Commercial and drive execution from concept to consumer experience.

• Serve as the strategic thought partner and program manager for high-priority cross-category initiatives that require CPO-level sponsorship but dedicated day-to-day ownership - including loyalty program development consumer insight infrastructure and post-purchase engagement strategy.

• Build and maintain a living CPO strategy document that integrates geo expansion priorities loyalty program milestones and cross-category bets - ensuring the CPO's strategic intent is legible current and actionable across the organization.

• Partner with the HRBP on org health assessments headcount strategy succession planning and structural recommendations.

• Identify structural gaps level compression and span-of-control issues; surface findings with recommendations to the CPO.

• Support onboarding of new leaders into the PD org; ensure fast connectivity to strategy culture and operating model.

• Flag talent and leadership gaps that create execution risk against strategic objectives.

• Contribute to culture-setting within the organization especially during periods of leadership transition and transformation.

• Own and continuously evolve executive reporting: dashboards initiative trackers pre-reads and planning artifacts.

• Build standardized operating cadences across the PD org - staff meetings roadmap reviews offsites and decision logs.

• Continuously identify opportunities to raise the signal-to-noise ratio and reduce coordination overhead for the CPO.

• Design mechanisms that scale beyond this role - not workarounds that create dependency on one person.

• **Lead the evaluation and adoption of AI and automation tools that improve planning accuracy reporting speed and portfolio visibility across the organization.

• 7-12+ years of experience in strategic operations chief of staff management consulting or product/engineering leadership; prior Chief of Staff experience strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated track record operating as a trusted partner to a C-suite or ELT-level executive in a complex fast-moving organization.

• Strong working knowledge of consumer product development hardware/software roadmaps or engineering operations; experience in or exposure to geographic market expansion and consumer loyalty program development strongly preferred.

• Exceptional ability to synthesize complexity into clear executive-ready communications and decisions.

• Proven ability to influence cross-functional alignment without formal authority.

• High emotional intelligence; politically aware discreet and trusted with sensitive information.

• Experience in a high-growth multi-category consumer product company strongly preferred.

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

• **Demonstrated experience applying AI tools automation or data analytics within a strategic operations or executive support context.

• **Hands-on familiarity with AI-powered project and portfolio management platforms executive intelligence tools or LLM-based workflow automation.

• **Comfort operating in an AI-augmented workflow - using intelligent tools to synthesize signals surface insights and support faster higher-quality decisions.

• **Track record of championing AI or digital tool adoption within a cross-functional team including managing change and building capability.

• **Strategic vision for how generative AI and intelligent automation can reshape the operating model of a product organization - from reporting to portfolio tradeoff modeling.

• Proactively follows up on action items without being prompted; owns outcomes not just process.

• Asks incisive clarifying questions rather than proposing premature solutions.

• Brings options tradeoffs and implications to the CPO - not just problems.

• Builds trust and relationships laterally not just upward.

• Comfortably challenges leaders when priorities drift from strategy; demonstrates bias toward clarity and focus.

• Demonstrates calm authority and decisive action under ambiguity and pressure.

• Designs durable mechanisms that scale - not workarounds that require their continued presence.

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What We Do

SharkNinja 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 SharkNinja to enter multiple product categories driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham Massachusetts with more than 4000 associates the company’s products are sold at key retailers online and offline and through distributors around the world.

Why Work With Us

Whether your passion is engineering designing marketing or developing at SharkNinja you’ll find we’re all about people. We work together to create world-class products that delight our consumers. Building an admired consumer products problem solving engine is hard; we do it better than others by operating differently.

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