Vice President Systems Engineering

• Develop and execute the company's systems engineering vision strategy and roadmap.
• Build and lead a high-performing global systems engineering organization.
• Establish systems engineering standards methodologies tools and best practices across all product categories.
• Drive organizational maturity in systems thinking architecture development requirements management and technical decision-making.
• Serve as the senior technical authority for complex cross-functional product development programs.

• Lead development of product system architectures for current and future appliance platforms.
• Ensure alignment between customer needs business objectives technical requirements and product performance targets.
• Drive platform strategies that enable scalability reuse and technology leverage across product families.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their impact on future product roadmaps.
• Guide critical design trade-offs involving performance cost manufacturability reliability and user experience.

• Establish robust processes for capturing decomposing and managing product requirements.
• Ensure end-to-end traceability from customer needs through design verification and validation.
• Lead integration efforts across mechanical electrical embedded software firmware cloud connectivity AI and user experience domains.
• Resolve complex cross-functional technical issues and integration challenges.

• Oversee system-level verification and validation strategies.
• Ensure products meet functional performance regulatory safety reliability and customer experience requirements.
• Partner with Quality and Reliability teams to improve product robustness and reduce field failures.
• Establish metrics and governance processes to monitor product performance and technical risk.

• Implement technical review processes and engineering gate criteria.
• Lead technical risk management and mitigation activities across product portfolios.
• Establish system-level KPIs and engineering performance metrics.
• Ensure consistent engineering execution across multiple development programs and global teams.

• Recruit develop and mentor world-class systems engineering talent.
• Build organizational capabilities in architecture modeling simulation requirements management and systems integration.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence innovation collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Partner with engineering leaders to strengthen technical career paths and succession planning.

• Partner closely with Product Management Design Engineering Manufacturing Quality Regulatory and Supply Chain teams.
• Influence strategic product decisions through technical insights and data-driven recommendations.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to executive leadership and business stakeholders.
• Represent systems engineering in executive reviews strategic planning activities and customer engagements.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required.
• Master's degree in Systems Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or related field preferred.
• Advanced technical or business degree (MBA PhD) is a plus.

• 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience.
• 10+ years leading complex multidisciplinary product development programs.
• Significant experience in consumer products consumer electronics home appliances robotics connected devices or related industries.
• Proven experience leading large technical organizations and managing senior engineering leaders.
• Demonstrated success delivering products from concept through commercialization.

• Systems architecture and product platform development.
• Requirements engineering and traceability.
• Verification and validation methodologies.
• Reliability engineering and risk management.
• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
• Embedded systems software-enabled products and connected ecosystems.
• Mechanical electrical software and manufacturing integration.
• Product lifecycle management and engineering governance.

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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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