AI-Native Transformation Engineer

Sharkninja; Needham (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Paid time off

Employee stock purchase program

Wellness programs

Product discounts

Job summary

SharkNinja, a global product design and technology company headquartered in Needham, MA, is building an AI-native culture. Join the FIN team to embed with business units and deliver data, automation, and AI solutions at scale across a global organization.

You will work from zero to one on complex cross-functional challenges, delivering measurable outcomes with executive visibility and a fast-paced, founder-like environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building and deploying production software, data products, or automation used by business teams.
• Experience in CPG, consumer products, retail, manufacturing, or environment requiring end-to-end business operations.
• Experience with Python or similar data analysis language.
• Strong SQL skills with database architecture, table creation, procedures, and functions.
• Commercial acumen: connect technical choices to business value and understand how changes affect teams across the business.
• Sound engineering practices across testing, security, monitoring, and documentation, including validation of AI outputs.
• Founder’s mindset: take initiative, navigate uncertainty, move quickly, and stay accountable through adoption and results.

Responsibilities

• Embed with the business to understand workflows, decisions, and recurring friction; identify opportunities with clear commercial value.
• Build from zero to one by turning ambiguous problems into working applications, data products, and automation, iterating with users.
• Connect data and apply AI; integrate enterprise systems and use AI to improve outcomes with validation and human review.
• Own production delivery: test, deploy, monitor, and maintain solutions with security, data quality, and auditability built in.
• Drive adoption and impact: put solutions into daily use, establish support ownership, and measure business results.

Skills

Production software

Data products

Automation

CPG familiarity

Python

SQL

Commercial acumen

Engineering practices

Founder mindset

Tools

Palantir Foundry

AIP

Snowflake

DBT

React

Job description

SharkNinja, a global product design and technology company headquartered in Needham, MA, is building an AI-native culture. Join the FIN team to embed with business units and deliver data, automation, and AI solutions at scale across a global organization.

You will work from zero to one on complex cross-functional challenges, delivering measurable outcomes with executive visibility and a fast-paced, founder-like environment.