Design Manager, New Product Development

Our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world! We work very hard to provide our consumers with high-quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to build the next big thing and develop while they do.

We are looking for a Design Manager, to join our London-based New Product Development team, building a new generation of innovative products within the Ninja Coffee Team. We thrive on designing great products that delight our customers. Working as part of our London Design Office, you will bring technical substance and inspiration to our creative efforts to deliver credible solutions to populate our product roadmap, and ultimately to the market. We work with a hybrid model, 3 days a week in our iconic Battersea Power Station London office.

Here are some of the exciting things you'll get to do:

• Leads the team to carry out design studies (independently and in teams) to solve technical or consumer issues found in the development of a product.
• Gathers insight from professional and consumer feedback and guides the team to implement into streamlined design solutions.
• Successfully develops team of A-players, helping them to reach their full potential.
• Manages the hiring and expansion of the team inline with the business growth in the category.
• Takes overall ownership of designs through conception, CAD execution, prototyping and verification, whilst consistently working at pace & successfully develops team to do the same.
• Continuously evaluates and improves designs for cost-effectiveness, manufacturing improvements, increased quality and value to consumers. 
• Applies sound engineering/ product design standards to deliver real solutions (e.g. DFMEA, DFM, Tolerance stack analysis, FAI)
• Applies understanding & experience of high-volume manufacturing processes and materials to optimise designs. 
• Communicates effectively and professionally with colleagues. 
• Leads clear and effective communication of engineering progress and risk to executive leadership.
• Collaborates seamlessly with our U.S. and China-based Product Development, multi-functional teams and executive teams to ensure that great ideas make it through to production.

Here are some of the things you'll bring:

• Degree-level technical qualification, ideally Product Design Engineering, Mechanical or Industrial Design Engineering. 
• Typically 7-10 years proven experience in Mechanical/ Product Design environment. 
• Team management experience
• Typically, 2+ years people management experience
• Experience in the consumer goods household appliance space desirable 
• Experience in plastic manufacturing processes desirable 
• Experience in delivering real-world products to market 
• Uses Solidworks or Creo to a high level and demonstrable experience of leading CAD reviews
• Can motivate your team to identify, solve, implement and verify technical solutions autonomously.
• Can effectively manage the "hands-on" - building of prototypes, product testing in the lab, developing and reporting.
• Flexible and collaborative - these are key to success at SharkNinja. 
• Positive attitude with an inquisitive nature. 
• Appreciation for electrical engineering, software and UX design helpful but not essential. 

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At SharkNinja, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are vital to our global success. Valuing each unique voice and blending all of our diverse skills strengthens SharkNinja’s innovation every day. We support ALL associates in bringing their authentic selves to work, making an impact, and having the opportunity for career acceleration. With help from our leadership, associates, and our community, we aim to have equity be a key component of the SharkNinja DNA.

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