Senior Director of Strategic Growth Initiatives & Transformation, SharkNinja
$217.5-280k
+ ESPP, subject to applicable eligibility requirements
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Needham, MA)
Home devices and appliances
Open for applications
Home devices and appliances
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$217.5-280k
+ ESPP, subject to applicable eligibility requirements
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Needham, MA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To positively impact people's lives every day in every home around the world.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of experience in strategy execution, business operations, consulting, program leadership, commercial execution, or related disciplines
- Proven track record leading complex cross-functional initiatives that deliver measurable business results
- Experience executing market expansion, channel expansion, commercialization, or enterprise growth initiatives
- Demonstrated experience leading AI-enabled initiatives, including evaluating, implementing, and driving adoption of solutions that create measurable business value and operational impact
- Experience working with executive leaders and influencing decisions across complex matrix organizations
- Willingness and ability to travel frequently, both domestically and internationally
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred
- Exceptional program and execution leadership skills
- Strong commercial and business acumen
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Outstanding executive communication and presentation skills
- Ability to influence and drive accountability without direct authority
- Expertise in change management, stakeholder engagement, and organizational adoption
- Strong understanding of AI technologies and their practical application to solve business problems and improve organizational performance
- Results-oriented with a relentless focus on execution
- Thrives in ambiguity and fast-changing business environments
- Builds credibility through collaboration, influence, and consistent delivery
- Demonstrates strong ownership and sound business judgment
- Comfortable working across organizational boundaries to drive enterprise-wide outcomes
What the job involves
- The Senior Director, Strategic Growth Initiatives & Transformation is a highly influential individual contributor responsible for driving the global execution of SharkNinja's highest-priority growth initiatives
- Partners across the enterprise to bring global strategic growth opportunities to life through disciplined execution, cross-functional leadership, and organizational alignment
- This role focuses on geographic expansion, new channel development, direct-to-consumer growth, social commerce, and other commercial opportunities
- The Senior Director leads initiatives from desired business outcomes through implementation, adoption, and scale while partnering across Commercial, Sales, Marketing, Product Development, Operations, Planning, Supply Chain, Digital Technology, Analytics, Compliance, Finance, Customer Experience, and other key functions
- STRATEGIC GROWTH EXECUTION:
- Lead execution of SharkNinja's highest-priority growth initiatives, ensuring successful delivery of measurable business outcomes
- Drive initiatives focused on geographic expansion, new market entry, channel expansion, direct-to-consumer growth, social commerce, and other strategic commercial opportunities
- Translate strategic priorities into integrated execution plans, defining milestones, dependencies, risks, and success metrics
- Build strong partnerships across the enterprise to align resources, priorities, and execution plans
- Identify and resolve execution risks, removing barriers and driving timely decision-making
- CROSS-FUNCTIONAL LEADERSHIP:
- Lead initiatives from desired business outcomes through implementation, adoption, and scale, ensuring long-term business impact
- Develop and execute change management strategies that drive stakeholder alignment, organizational readiness, user adoption, and realization of intended business benefits
- Coordinate activities across cross-functional teams to ensure successful execution
- Drive accountability across stakeholders while fostering collaboration and alignment
- Communicate initiative progress, risks, and recommendations to executive leadership
- PROGRAM GOVERNANCE & BUSINESS PERFORMANCE:
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, governance processes, executive dashboards, and performance metrics
- Build business cases and support investment decisions for strategic growth initiatives
- Monitor initiative performance against objectives and recommend course corrections
- Lead post-launch reviews to evaluate business impact and identify opportunities for continuous improvement
- TRANSFORMATION & OPERATING-MODEL ENABLEMENT:
- Stand up repeatable playbooks, standardized processes, and scalable best practices that allow new markets, channels, and categories to launch and scale faster
- Diagnose structural, process, and capability gaps that impede expansion, and design operating-model changes that sustain impact beyond individual initiatives
- Establish enterprise operating rhythms and governance that reinforce accountability, transparency, and drive rapid progress towards growth aspirations
- WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE:
- New markets, channels, or commercial models stood up against committed timelines and adoption targets
- Measurable value delivered — revenue, margin, or efficiency — traceable to prioritized growth initiatives
- Repeatable playbooks and operating rhythms adopted by functional teams and sustained beyond initial launch
- Executive stakeholders aligned on priorities, with transparent reporting on progress, risks, and course corrections
- HOW YOU'LL LEAD WITH SHARKNINJA'S SUCCESS DRIVERS:
- Rarely Satisfied: You challenge the status quo and push every growth initiative beyond “good enough” toward step-change impact
- Progress Over Perfection: You move fast, learn from small failures, and keep initiatives advancing rather than stalling for certainty
- Details Make the Difference: Your rigor ensures execution plans, milestones, and metrics hold up as initiatives scale
- Winning is a Team Sport: You partner across functions so cross-functional teams win together, not in silos
- Communicating for Impact: You deliver clear, honest communication that builds alignment from the front line to the executive team
Application process
- This posting will close within 90 days from the original posting date
Our take
With more people looking for home products that work harders and smarter, SharkNinja has become a household name. Through its Shark line of cleaning and home care tools and Ninja range of kitchen appliance the company creates solutions that simplify daily routines and overall enhance modern living.
SharkNinja has been in operation since 1994, which is testament to the quality and popularity of its products. Since its initial launch in Canada, the company has expanded into the US and the UK. In 2017 SharkNinja was bought by CDH Private Equity for over $1.5 Billion, further proof of its impressive market value. Perhaps more evidence is that it brings in annual revenues of around $4B.
It continues to hold a strong position in the home appliance market too, competiting with big brands like Dyson. Its Shark line lead the US upright vacuum, segment, while its presence in robotics vacuums reflects steady growth in a compeititve space. Since going public, the company has m,aintained a rapid pace of innovation, launching numerous new products eacxh pear and expanding into adjecent categories such as outdoor coolers and grills. With a growing global footprint and a focus ons mart design, usabiluity, and category expansion, SharkNinja is very well positioned to continue shaping the futur of home appliances.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Needham Heights, Needham, MA
Leadership
Mark Rosenzweig
(Founder)Founded SharkNinja in 1994. Has won three Red Dot Awards for product Design.
Mark Barrocas
(CEO)Mark joined SharkNinja in 2008 as CEO. Prior to this, he spent 3 years at Aramark Uniform Services as the President of the WearGuard Division. Prior to that, he spent 4 years at Broder Bros as the President and 2 years at Perry Ellis International as VP of Corporate Sales.
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