About the RoleAt SharkNinja, we are building an
AI-native culture. We don't just use AI as an afterthought-we are actively re-engineering how consumer products are invented, prototyped, and brought to market. We are seeking a visionary
AI Designer to sit at the intersection of front-end product innovation, generative design, and operational automation.
Based out of our global headquarters in Needham, MA, you will work hand-in-hand with Advanced Development engineering teams, Industrial Designers, and executive leaders. Your mission is twofold: leverage generative AI tools to radically accelerate our physical and digital product prototyping, and design custom AI prompts, assistants, and intelligent workflows that remove mechanical friction across our global business units.
What You'll Do- Accelerate Front-End Innovation: Partner with industrial design and product engineering teams to use Generative AI systems (Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Vizcom, etc.) for rapid 2D/3D concept generation and product visualization.
- Engineer Intelligent Workflows: Design, test, and deploy customized AI prompts, agents, and custom GPT environments to automate and optimize repetitive creative and operational processes.
- Democratize AI Literacy: 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.
What Does Success Look Like?- In 30 Days: You have deeply embedded yourself with the Advanced Development teams in Needham, conducted an audit of our current creative pipelines, and mastered our baseline AI workflow guidelines.
- In 90 Days: You have successfully built and deployed at least two custom AI-assisted design workflows or prompt frameworks that measurably reduce the time it takes our teams to go from raw product concept to initial visual layout.
- In 1 Year: You have helped transform how SharkNinja ideates. Your generative frameworks and automated pipelines have noticeably compressed our front-end product development cycle, establishing our Needham headquarters as a benchmark for AI-driven consumer goods innovation.
Salary and Other Compensation: 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.
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: 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, and more.
Pay Range
$85,800-$90,000 USD
