Director - Program Manager - Haircare

 

Our mission to positively impact people's lives every day in every home around the world allows our employees to be thinkers and tinkerers, designers and doers, creators and number crunchers, makers of things they love.  As we continue to grow, we are excited to add a Director of Program Management to our global team.

OVERVIEW:

The Product Development organization within SharkNinja drives our global product roadmap from concept to shelf through the constant lens of the consumer. We are the “product CEOs,” partnering cross-functionally with almost every other team within the business to drive high consumer satisfaction and business results. We are comprised of individuals from a variety of professional and educational backgrounds, from product marketing managers to consumer-focused engineers – but we all have one thing in common: we’re consistently striving to deliver a 5-star experience for every consumer on every product we bring to market. 

At SharkNinja, Program Management is integrated within the broader Product Development organization and above all is responsible for setting and maintaining the product and program drumbeat that is critical to delivering 5-star products that are loved by consumers around the globe. This role will lead a team of Program Managers that are deeply engrained within cross-functional project teams as owners of the global project schedule, thoughtful challengers, and master dot-connectors. In addition to specifically owning some projects as a Program Manager, a main focus area of this role is also directly supporting the Vice President, Product Development as a strategic thought partner and “Chief of Staff” around project/team resources, capacity planning, roadmap planning, and more for the assigned product categories. 

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

• Collaborate with the VP Product Development and other key executive team members to determine and prioritize business strategies in areas such as: 

• Project/team resources – be the gatekeeper, with a constant pulse on where there are organizational/cross-functional gaps or saturation, and make recommendations to ensure teams are set up for success 

• Special initiative leadership – beyond creating and commercializing incredible products, the Product Development team is heavily involved in a variety of projects that involve many different areas of SharkNinja; you may be asked to lead or co-lead emerging initiatives to help the company achieve Breakthrough goals 

• Roadmap planning – if the VP, Product Development is the CEO of the roadmap, you are the COO – ensuring that the roadmap is on track to be delivered through on-time product schedules, global market acceptance and PO issuance of products, and that forecasts are laddering up to revenue projections 

• Continuous improvement - Identify ways to improve SharkNinja’s operational workflow, strengthen cross-functional collaboration, and drive process improvement 

• Actively lead, coach, and grow a team of pr