Our mission to positively impact people's lives every day in every home around the world allows our employees to be thinkers and tinkerers, designers and doers, creators and number crunchers, makers of things they love.
Shark Ninja is expanding our APAC business and scaling it rapidly. Our two brands, Shark and Ninja, have enjoyed unprecedented growth in the past five years, driven mainly by the very strong innovation pipeline on both brands. Given this success in our existing markets, Shark Ninja has embarked on a bold plan for growing APAC business, in which APAC plays a critical role.
The Senior Product Safety & Compliance Engineer APAC will have a direct partnership with our regional product team, certification partners, and product management team for all aspects of regulatory compliance and product certification. The candidate will be responsible for leading multiple certification projects from product concept to mass production, ensuring that all market access requirements are met and that product designs employ appropriate risk mitigation solutions.
Responsibilities
- Oversee certification activities and risk assessments for new product development initiatives. This includes defining project requirements, facilitating weekly reviews, and ensuring that certification processes are executed on schedule.
- Serve as a subject matter expert, providing insights on compliance regulations while consistently assessing risks and formulating contingency plans to address challenges. Additionally, support the Commercial team in achieving product compliance and timely market entry in the APAC region.
- Own the execution of certification activities and risk analysis for multiple new product development projects for regions such as ANZ, Japan, Hong Kong or Taiwan.
- Establish project needs and deliverables for both our product development teams and third‑party regulatory partners.
- Continuously evaluate project risk during the development process and establish contingency plans to overcome obstacles.
- Lead weekly reviews for all assigned projects, present the status and associated project risks.
- Assure that all activities related to product certification commence and execute as planned and on schedule.
- Support the product development teams as a subject matter expert, providing counsel on requirements and regulations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering or a similar technical discipline.
- Minimum of 5‑7 years of compliance or design‑related experience with consumer or commercial electromechanical products (preferred).
- Strong knowledge of regulatory standards and/or governmental regulations.
- Ability to operate comfortably in a fast‑paced environment with regularly shifting priorities.
- Thrives under pressure and seeks continuous challenge.
- Manages multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining continuous tracking of key details.
- Multi‑tasks, maintaining a comprehensive understanding of project status.
- Consistently presents creative and technically sound solutions to complex problems.
- Analyzes operations and promotes continuous improvement initiatives.
- Works with conviction and demonstrates strength on key positions yet collaborates and compromises where appropriate.
- Works and thinks independently with moderate supervision and generates ideas within their area of expertise.
- Make sound decisions utilizing all available information.
- Communicates complex technical information to audiences with varying technical understanding.
- Adapts well to change.
- Presents at a high level to all levels within the organization, demonstrating comfort and confidence in collaborating with colleagues and superiors.
Company Values
- Lead us to be “rarely satisfied”.
- Make things better each day; “progress over perfection”.
- Use your knowledge of our consumer, understand that “details make the difference.”
- Deliver something great; “winning is a team sport”.
- Be clear and honest, “communicating for impact.”