Vice President of Shark Marketing, SharkNinja

Shark Robot Vacuums

Salary not provided
Expert level
Boston

Office located in Needham, MA

SharkNinja

Home devices and appliances

Job no longer available

SharkNinja

Home devices and appliances

1001+ employees

B2CConsumer GoodseCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
Expert level
Boston

Office located in Needham, MA

1001+ employees

B2CConsumer GoodseCommerce

Company mission

SharkNinja's mission is to positively impact people's lives every day in every home around the world.

Role

Who you are

  • Extensive new product development marketing experience
  • Extraordinarily comfortable working at a fast pace, iterative, and progress vs. perfection mindset
  • Leading and building global teams
  • Ability to think creatively and strategically
  • Strong communication skills and ability to make effective presentations to all levels of management
  • Ability to synthesize complex product features into compelling and desirable consumer benefits
  • Broad spectrum of marketing skills, defining strategies, building plans, driving product launches, and front-end innovation management
  • Ability to connect the dots and think at a holistic and strategic level across the business
  • Influencing, conflict resolution, and creative problem-solving
  • Comfortable mining and analyzing data and drawing conclusions
  • Project management and ability to manage several projects in parallel, navigating a complex cross-functional matrix
  • Biased toward action, roll up your sleeves and get it done together
  • Minimum of 15+ years of prior Marketing experience required, preferably with direct responsibility for Brand strategy, messaging, commercialization, and P&L management
  • Deep experience in CPG marketing
  • Experience in managing, building, and growing teams in a global context
  • Experience leveraging consumer insights to develop effective marketing programs and campaigns
  • Experience in creative strategy development, advertising and launching new products
  • Experience in launching products globally across several different markets
  • Bachelor’s required and MBA preferred

What the job involves

  • The Vice President of Marketing, Shark Robot Vacuums will lead the commercialization and go-to-market strategy for the Shark robotics team
  • This person will develop the marketing strategies to expand into new categories, foster growth in existing ones, and support execution for global markets
  • This person will work closely with cross functionals teams to develop and drive the marketing plan including media, communications, assortments, and channels strategy while managing launches occurring on time across all channels and markets
  • Build and lead the marketing organization to build and ensure execution of all go to market plans including product marketing positioning across all consumer touch points (Full Funnel Integrated Marketing Communications)
  • Work with sales and category management for sell-in strategy, retailer placement, and channel management across key launches
  • Communicate and review all commercialization strategies with the executive team, present insights, and recommendations, and align on a path forward
  • Own product roadmap with engineering to ensure long term growth across new and adjacent categories
  • Lead and mentor a team of brand marketers to implement on-time and on-brand execution of all key initiatives, campaigns, and deliverables
  • Develop and execute brand guidelines to ensure a cohesive brand experience across all potential internal and external audience touchpoints
  • Develop consumer insights to not only ideate new products but also to optimize the products throughout the commercialization process; lead innovation testing to prove out ideas with consumers

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Insights

10% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Employer paid group benefits including medical, dental, life insurance and more
  • Competitive RRSP matching program
  • 16 vacation days to start
  • Paid sick days
  • Paid volunteer and cultural days
  • Employee & Family Assistance program
  • An opportunity to accelerate your career with world class brands
  • Continuous development and mentoring
  • Opportunity to join various employee-based affinity groups
  • Diverse, inclusive, and community-minded organization
  • Wellness program offering free virtual fitness classes and a fitness reimbursement
  • Employee product discounts

Our take

Consumer demand for new and better home appliances continues to grow. SharkNinja serves this demand by designing and manufacturing innovative home goods and devices. Specifically, it has a growing line of solutions that consist of Shark cleaning and home care products and Ninja kitchen appliances.

SharkNinja has been in operation since 1994, which is testament to the quality and popularity of its products. Since its initial launch in Canada, the company has expanded into the US and the UK. In 2017 SharkNinja was bought by CDH Private Equity for over $1.5 Billion, further proof of its impressive market value. Perhaps more evidence is that it brings in annual revenues of around $4B.

SharkNinja’s main challenge is facing down big-name competitors such as home appliance giant Dyson. In fact, through innovative design, it seized the market-leading spot in traditional vacuums from Dyson and is only second to iRobot in sales of robotic models. A 2023 IPO saw an extra $296 million in funding added to SharkNinja's pot and was followed by product launches in new sectors such as air conditioning and food cooling, indicating that the company is still full of new product ideas.

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