AI Designer

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 4,100 associates, the company’s products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world.

About The Role

At SharkNinja, we are building an AI-native culture. We are not waiting for the future; we are creating it. Our people are expected to experiment boldly, adopt new tools, and continuously raise what’s possible to create meaningful impact for our consumers. If you believe the best way to do your job hasn’t been invented yet, you’ll fit right in.

• Leverage generative AI tools to radically accelerate our physical and digital product prototyping.
• Design, test, and deploy customized AI prompts, agents, and custom GPT environments to automate and optimize repetitive creative and operational processes.
• Act as an internal evangelist. Create frameworks, playbooks, and training sessions to help cross-functional teams (from R&D to Product Marketing) integrate advanced AI assistants seamlessly into their daily tasks.
• Bridge physical and digital design. Collaborate with UI/UX and mobile app teams to explore how consumer-facing AI experiences can enhance our physical hardware ecosystems (smart home, connected kitchen, etc.).
• Evaluate emerging tech. Continuously source, stress-test, and onboard emerging foundational models, plugins, and software to ensure SharkNinja remains at the absolute bleeding edge of design automation.

Qualifications

• 3+ Years in Design / Product Development: Background in Industrial Design, Interaction Design, Product Design Engineering, or a highly technical creative field.
• Mastery of Generative Design Tools: Advanced, demonstrable expertise in prompt engineering and image/asset generation platforms (Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, Adobe Firefly, or similar).
• Fluency with Enterprise AI Assistants: Deep practical experience leveraging large language models (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) to accelerate research, data synthesis, and workflow modeling.
• A Systems Thinker: Ability to analyze a manual, fragmented business or creative process and design a scalable, AI-driven automation framework to solve it.
• The "Tinkerer" Mindset: A relentless curiosity and passion for rapid iteration. You thrive on hands-on experimentation, mapping out workflows, and building functional prototypes.

Pay

The annual salary range for this position is $85,800—$90,000 USD. Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Health savings accounts (HSA) with company contribution
• 401(k) retirement plan with matching
• Employee stock purchase program
• Life insurance
• AD&D
• Short-term disability insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Generous paid time off
• Company holidays
• Parental leave
• ID Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Pre-paid legal insurance
• Back-up child and eldercare days
• Product discounts
• Referral bonus program