Applied AI & Analytics Associate Opportunities
SharkNinja · Needham, MA · 3 wk ago
OTHRFull-time
About the role
This is not a single-team support role. You'll move across functions — working with product, operations, finance, supply chain, marketing — on whatever problems matter most to the business right now.
Responsibilities
- Partner with VPs and Chiefs of Staff on analytical questions that require structured problem-framing, data modeling, or clear recommendations
- Contribute to multi-week analytical initiatives from scoping through delivery, working with senior stakeholders on managing expectations and timelines
- Build and maintain dashboards, decision-support tools, and analytical models that help senior leaders operate more effectively
- Use LLMs, AI automation, or machine learning to accelerate your own analysis and help other teams do the same
- Identify gaps in how the company tracks performance and propose practical improvements in collaboration with finance, operations, and product teams
- Work with teams to adopt analytical approaches or tools, contributing to broader adoption and impact
- Introduce better analytical methods and tools to raise the quality and consistency of output across teams
- Communicate findings clearly to senior stakeholders — translating complex analysis into straightforward recommendations that connect to business outcomes
- Connect the dots between data from multiple functions to surface insights no single team could see on their own
- Help support and review work from junior analysts or co-ops, contributing to their development
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience in analytics, data science, or consulting with a demonstrated track record of analytical delivery
- Hands-on experience deploying or building with LLMs, generative AI, or automation tools — not just familiarity, but practical usage in real work
- Strong working command of SQL and Python — you pull and manipulate data directly and can build scalable analytical solutions
- Proficiency building dashboards and analytical tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or similar)
- Clear communication skills — you can present findings to senior stakeholders and explain complex analysis in plain language
- Demonstrated ability to take an ambiguous business question and structure a complete analytical approach
- Experience managing multiple workstreams and delivering against timelines with limited oversight
- Previous project or program management experience — managing scope, timelines, and cross-functional coordination
- Understanding of impact orientation — you connect your analytical work to business results and can articulate what changed because of your analysis
- Experience contributing to adoption — you've worked on building or improving a tool, process, or approach that a team has used; you're learning what it takes to drive change
Qualifications
- Background in consumer products, retail, or e-commerce — you understand margin dynamics, go-to-market, and how these businesses scale
- Experience with advanced statistical methods — experimentation, time-series analysis, or applied ML
- Hands-on experience with large-scale data infrastructure — designing data pipelines, working with modern cloud platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks)
- Prior exposure to working alongside executive or senior leadership teams
- Experience identifying and solving systemic problems — moving beyond answering a single question to fixing how a team or function operates
Skills
- Languages: SQL, Python (strong proficiency); R, Scala, or equivalent a plus
- Bi & Visualization: Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or similar — deep proficiency in at least one platform
- Data Platforms: Hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks)
- Ai & Automation: Production experience with LLMs, generative AI, or automation tools — not just familiarity, but deployed solutions
- Collaboration Tools: Slack, Jira, Asana, or similar for cross-functional coordination
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
- Identity theft protection
- Pet insurance
- Pre-paid legal insurance
- Back-up child and eldercare days
- Product discounts
- Referral bonus program
Pay
The annual salary range for this position is displayed below. Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Schedule
Based in Miami.