Senior Product Design Engineer, NPD

About Us 

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 3,300+ associates, the company’s products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world.  

Location: Battersea, London, Hybrid 3 days a week in the office

We are looking for a Senior Product Design Engineer, to join our UK NPD team building a new generation of innovative personal care products for the Shark brand. 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 the market. 

What You'll Do

• Takes a senior role in the origination of novel concepts and technologies for our next generation of products. 
• Defines elegant but robust solutions to satisfy the products’ functional requirements. 
• Mentors more junior team members, with potential for line management if desired. Supports all team members and encourages their efforts. 
• Lead design studies (independently and in teams) to solve technical or consumer issues found in the development of a product. 
• Takes ownership of designs and is able to drive these through conception, CAD and visualisation, prototyping and verification, whilst consistently working at pace. 
• Is able to work both autonomously and collaboratively as required and able to switch approach quickly as technical solutions gain traction through the wider global engineering team. 
• 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. 
• Applies understanding & experience of high-volume manufacturing processes and materials to optimise designs. 
• Communicates effectively and professionally with colleagues. 
• 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.

What You'll Bring

• Degree-level technical qualification, ideally Product Design Engineering, Mechanical or Industrial Design Engineering. 
• Typically 4-7 years proven experience in Mechanical/ Product Design environment. 
• Experience in the consumer goods household appliance space desirable 
• Experience in plastic manufacturing processes desirable 
• Experience in delivering real-world products to market 
• Ability to use SolidWorks and/or Creo CAD package(s) to a very high level. 
• Ability and drive to identify, solve, implement, and verify user and technical solutions autonomously. 
• “Hands-on” experience. Ability to independently build prototypes, develop test plans and execute against those plans in a lab environment, action and report the resulting data. 
• 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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