Sr. Director, AI Finance & Legal Transformation

About the role

The Sr. Director, AI Finance & Legal Transformation will own the strategy and execution of AI integration across SharkNinja's finance organization (FP&A, accounting, internal audit, tax, investor relations) and legal organization (contract management, IP, regulatory compliance, litigation support).

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Integration:
  • Own the AI transformation roadmap across the full finance and legal functions, identifying overlaps, dependencies, and consolidation opportunities
  • Sequence and prioritize ruthlessly: drive each initiative to completion before starting the next
  • Build and lead a team of AI Fellows embedded directly into finance and legal teams
• Finance:
  • Accelerate forecast automation, consolidating commercial forecasting across Americas, Global, and EMEA into a single AI-powered path from prototype to production
  • Partner with Internal Audit to fast-track AI adoption in audit and controls, reducing remediation timelines on material weaknesses
  • Activate AI opportunities across accounting -- from automating data entry and reconciliation to larger process redesign
• Legal:
  • Accelerate AI-powered contract review, IP portfolio management, and regulatory compliance monitoring to reduce cycle times, outside counsel dependency, and manual exposure tracking
  • Build legal intelligence and knowledge retrieval systems that make institutional legal knowledge accessible and actionable across the organization
  • Evaluate the legal tech landscape and make build-vs-buy decisions that compound in value -- prioritizing platforms SharkNinja owns over vendor lock-in
  • Drive production readiness for Legal's existing AI prototypes, moving working tools from proof-of-concept to enterprise-grade platforms
• Execution:
  • Translate AI capabilities into practical solutions that finance and legal professionals actually use
  • Drive behavioral change across teams with varying levels of AI fluency
  • Establish success metrics and report measurable outcomes to executive leadership
  • Cook up coordination with external partners (PwC, Oracle) to avoid duplication and ensure AI initiatives complement existing efforts

Qualifications

• 10+ years in AI/ML, finance transformation, legal operations, or technology-driven change management
• Strong technical fluency in AI/ML, with hands-on experience deploying enterprise LLM platforms (Claude, ChatGPT): you can evaluate tools, assess platforms, and hold your own in technical discussions with engineers and data scientists
• Deep understanding of enterprise finance operations (FP&A, accounting, audit, controls, ERP systems) and working knowledge of corporate legal operations (contract lifecycle, IP, compliance)
• Proven track record leading large-scale transformation in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
• Ability to bridge technical and business: you can tell IT what to build and tell the CFO or CLO what outcome it delivers
• Decisive, action-oriented, and comfortable in ambiguity where speed matters more than perfection
• Experience productionalizing AI prototypes from proof-of-concept to enterprise-grade tools with proper back-end infrastructure, particularly in environments where customized platforms are already in flight

Benefits

Competitive health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, employee stock purchase options, wellness programs, SharkNinja product discounts, and more.

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

Full-time, on-site at Boston HQ in Needham, MA or New York / Miami office.