Director, Media Scale Markets
SharkNinja
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Job summary
SharkNinja seeks a strategic, globally minded Director of Media for Scale Markets to lead media strategy and activation across multiple regions. You will guide full-funnel programs, align with DTC, Retail Media, and Amazon teams, and drive fast, big-impact media decisions in a high-growth environment.
You will mentor regional marketers, build global-to-local leadership frameworks, and collaborate with Brand, Creative, and Insights teams to deliver measurable brand growth and commercial impact.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in media strategy, planning, and investment in global or multi-market environments.
- Proven success driving full-funnel media programs in high-growth consumer categories.
- Strong analytical mindset with experience using MMM, dashboards, and audience insights.
- Experience managing complex budgets and leading agency relationships.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder leadership in multinational settings.
Responsibilities
- Lead growth market paid media strategy and execution across Scale Markets, aligning top-, mid-, and lower-funnel programs.
- Oversee Scale Markets media teams and create cross-region playbooks and operating frameworks.
- Translate business goals into actionable media briefs for regional teams and agency partners.
- Ensure plans align with global priorities while reflecting local market realities.
- Lead media transformation initiatives to improve speed, automation, and measurement maturity.
- Oversee planning, activation, and optimization across digital, social, OLV/CTV, and emerging channels.
- Guide budget allocation frameworks to maximize ROI and support forecasts.
- Review performance data and provide direction to optimize in real time.
- Build bridges between global and regional teams and manage agency relationships.
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Job description
At SharkNinja, we’re building an AI-native culture. We’re not waiting for the future; we’re 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.
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.
At SharkNinja, we’re building an AI-native culture. We’re not waiting for the future; we’re 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.
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.
At SharkNinja, we’re building an AI-native culture. We’re not waiting for the future; we’re 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.
SharkNinja is seeking a strategic, globally minded, and results-driven media leader to oversee media excellence, cross-regional strategy, and agile activation across Scale Markets (NEUR; Nordics and Benelux, and SEUR; Spain and Italy), a core engine of SharkNinja’s global expansion.
As the Director of Media for Scale Markets, you will build and lead the media strategy, frameworks, and operating models that empower markets to plan and activate quickly, effectively, and consistently. You will guide full-funnel media execution across emerging regions, ensuring top-of-funnel and brand-building efforts complement performance-driven plans led by DTC, Retail Media, and Amazon teams.
This is a high-impact leadership role for a critical thinker who excels in complexity, thrives in high-growth environments, and brings an agile, test-and-learn mindset to modern media.
- Lead the development of integrated, full-funnel media strategies for Scale Markets, spanning top-funnel with a “social-first” mindset (Paid Social, Video, Partnerships), mid-funnel channels (Paid Social), and complementing lower-funnel programs (Amazon, Retail Media, DTC).
- Lead the Scale Markets Media teams, based in country.
- Create cross-region media playbooks, templates, and operating frameworks that enable rapid and repeatable planning.
- Translate commercial and brand goals into clear, actionable media briefs for regional teams and agency partners.
- Ensure media plans align with global priorities while reflecting local nuance and market realities.
- Lead media transformation initiatives that improve speed, agility, automation, and measurement maturity.
- Oversee planning, activation, and optimization across digital, social, OLV/CTV, OOH, and emerging channels.
- Guide markets on budget allocation frameworks, ensuring investments maximize ROI and support quarterly forecasts.
- Review weekly performance data across media mix, creative, and pacing; provide direction to optimize in real time.
- Triangulate insights across analytics, MMM, brand lift, and in-platform metrics to refine strategies and build learning agendas.
- Serve as the senior media partner for Scale Markets—collaborating with Brand, Creative, IMC, Social, Performance Media, Insights, Amazon/Retail, and Market GMs.
- Build bridges between global and regional teams to ensure connection, consistency, and shared learnings.
- Lead global and regional agency relationships—overseeing briefing, performance reviews, optimizations, and quarterly business updates.
- Partner with local teams to ensure media supports commercial plans, distribution timelines, and product launch calendars.
- Mentor and guide regional marketers, elevating media expertise across Scale Markets.
- Establish a global-to-local media leadership framework that enhances consistency and operational excellence.
- Act as a key member of the global media leadership team, providing insights and recommendations to senior executives.
- Present strategies, performance updates, and opportunities with clarity, confidence, and influence.
- Champion measurement excellence across Scale Markets, showcasing leadership across audience strategy and incrementality frameworks.
- Collaborate with Insights, Analytics, and Retail partners to develop Point-of-Sale dashboards and learning agendas that elevate decision-making.
- Lead testing and innovation roadmap to continuously advance SharkNinja’s commerce maturity.
- 10+ years of experience in media strategy, planning, and investment across global or multi-market environments.
- Proven experience driving full-funnel media programs in high-growth consumer categories (tech, appliances, CPG, retail, etc.).
- Strong analytical mindset with experience leveraging MMM, analytics dashboards, DSPs, platform tools, and audience insights.
- Demonstrated success managing complex budgets and leading agency relationships.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder leadership skills.
- Experience in matrixed, multinational environments with the ability to influence without authority.
- Experience in high-growth consumer brands or multi-category portfolio environments.
- Demonstrated success driving SKU-level performance and retailer-aligned media activation.
- Oversight of growth or emerging regions (EMEA, Middle East, Africa, LATAM).
- Familiarity with distributor models, retail media networks and shopper media ecosystems.
- Experience leading content systems, media transformations, or global playbook development.
- Scale Markets adopt consistent, agile, and high-quality media planning practices.
- Media investments unlock measurable brand growth and lift across diverse regions.
- Markets plan and activate faster, with clearer frameworks and stronger decision-making.
- Playbooks, toolkits, and processes become trusted global standards.
- SharkNinja drives outsized brand visibility and commercial impact across high-growth regions.
At SharkNinja, we don’t just raise the bar—we push past it every single day. Our Outrageously Extraordinary mindset drives us to tackle the impossible, push boundaries, and deliver results that others only dream of. If you thrive on breaking out of your swim lane, you’ll be right at home.
We offer competitive health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, employee stock purchase options, wellness programs, SharkNinja product discounts, and more. We empower your personal and professional growth with high impact Learning Programs featuring bold voices redefining what’s possible. When you join, you’re not just part of a company—you’re part of an outrageously extraordinary community. Together, we won’t just launch products—we’ll disrupt entire markets.
Life At SharkNinja
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