Lead Industrial Designer

About the Role:

 

SharkNinja is looking for a Senior/Lead/Principal Industrial Designer to join us and drive the next generation of innovation across our Shark and Ninja brands. This role blends strategic concept development with hands-on execution, giving you the opportunity to influence creative direction while ensuring design excellence through production. As a senior individual contributor, you will lead concept exploration, 3D form development, and precision craftsmanship, applying DFM and assembly best practices to bring ideas to life. You will balance big-picture vision with executional rigor, creating products that are iconic, manufacturable, and consumer-focused.

 

You will partner closely with the Global Industrial Design and CMF teams, Product Development, Marketing, Engineering, and Manufacturing partners. In this role, you will serve as both a guardian of design vision and quality and a driver of global design R&D capability, advancing new methods, tools, materials, processes, and surface treatments that push SharkNinja’s design innovation and craftsmanship forward.

 

This is where your SharkNinja journey begins. You’re an explorer—not a tour guide—driven by curiosity, fueled by taking chances, and unwilling to fly under the radar. Here, bold moves turn into real impact, growth comes from challenge, and your work helps shape what’s next.

 

LOCATION: Shenzhen/Suzhou, China

 

 

 

Here are some of the EXCITING things you’ll get to do:

 

Concept Development & Design Vision

• Drive early-stage design exploration, creating sketches, 3D studies, and prototypes that shape program direction.
• Translate consumer insights and brand strategy into compelling concepts for both near-term and future pipelines.
• Deliver clear design storytelling - from moodboards to renderings - to inspire and align stakeholders.

Form Development & Craftsmanship

• Refine 3D forms and surfaces to achieve best-in-class proportions, usability, and aesthetics.
• Translate concept models into production-ready CAD while balancing design intent and engineering feasibility.
• Elevate craftsmanship in part fitment, surface quality, and tactile details for premium consumer experiences.

Execution & DFM

• Apply DFM/DFA principles to ensure seamless transition from design to production.
• Resolve tooling, parting line, and assembly challenges with suppliers.
• Evaluate appearance models and prototypes with decisive feedback.
• Demonstrate mastery of manufacturing across plastics, metals, glass, and soft goods.

Design Research & R&D

• Explore new trends, methods, materials, processes, and surface treatments to advance global design capability.