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Advanced Development Engineering Manager

Company: SharkNinja Operating LLC
Location: Needham, MA
Posted on: May 30, 2018

Job Description:

Duties: Develop new product concepts for the Shark brand, which include

vacuum cleaners, steam mops, hard floor care products, and garment care

products. Solve consumers’ real world problems with viable product

concepts and transition these into Advanced Development projects.

Conduct research and identify gaps in customer insight and need, and

lead the development of new innovative solutions to address those gaps.

Maintain updates and prepare organization for transition of Advanced

Development projects to full scale New Product Development. Explore new

market opportunities and portfolio propositions, and analyze trends for

global markets and report findings to product development teams.

Interpret data and test results and develop action plans. Provide clear,

concise and transparent updates to senior leadership of the company on a

regular cadence. Transition concepts from Advanced Development to the

NPD/NPI team, and collaborate with team members based in China to

transfer design intent and get early manufacturing feedback on new

product concepts. Set design strategy and priorities, design development

from initial concept to on-going product support, and create visual and

functional prototypes for research and internal review. Collaborate with

ID, Quality and Product Marketing leaders to innovate, design and

implement simple and elegant design solutions. Sketch concepts for

conceptual brainstorming as well as for presentation. Manage projects

with Euro-Pro’s technology partners.

Requirements: Master's degree in Product Design, Mechanical Engineering,

Industrial Design, or a related field (willing to accept foreign

education equivalent) plus three (3) years of experience designing high-

volume consumer products and leading design and development of complex

integrated assemblies and engineering systems or, alternatively, a

Bachelor's degree in one of the enumerated fields and five (5) years of

experience as stated above. Specific skills/other requirements:

Demonstrated ability to sketch and visually communicate ideas quickly

and effectively as well as a hand sketching technique suitable for

executive presentation. Demonstrated expertise in SolidWorks and/or

ProE/Creo 3D CAD systems; Demonstrated expertise participating in ID

brainstorms, up front concept sketching and ID surfacing; Demonstrated

expertise training and mentoring junior staff to deliver quick, hacked

prototypes through to detailed DFM mechanisms that prove out early

concepts or technical feasibility; Demonstrated expertise liaising with

Asian manufacturing partners on high volume consumer products;

Demonstrated expertise in user-centered design, including the

implementation of feedback into the design; Demonstrated expertise

presenting design ideas to the senior management team as well as the

marketing department and Compilation of an original portfolio of

creative work that clearly demonstrates a product development process.

Submit resume to SharkNinja Operating LLC, Danielle Benn, 89 A Street,

Suite 100, Needham, Massachusetts 02494.

Keywords: SharkNinja Operating LLC, Attleboro , Advanced Development Engineering Manager, Design , Needham, MA, Massachusetts

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