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.
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