Senior Technical Program Manager

SharkNinja, Needham, MA +1

The role

SharkNinja is looking for a self-motivated Senior Technical Software Project Manager (STPM) to join the Engineering Firmware group.

The role is the ‘glue’ within the team, aligning software project direction and decision points with key members from all business disciplines.

The candidate will be able to understand complex technical software challenges and be able to relay information to non-technical cross-functional teams.

Here are some of the exciting things you'll be doing:

Delivering 5-star products to market (best in class product)

AI at SharkNinja

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.

Here are some of the things you'll bring

5+ years’ experience in software project management
Artificial Intelligence: Familiar with AI tools and how they could be seamlessly integrated into our SW TPM processes
Scope control: Turn vague asks into clear outcomes and write down what’s in and out so changes are visible instead of absorbed silently.
Dependency and critical-path management: Find cross-team and external dependencies early, know which ones can move the date, and track them until closed.
Realistic planning: Build schedules with ranges and buffers, use historical data where it exists, and state confidence levels honestly.
Risk management: Keep a live risk register with owners and mitigations and escalate before risks become issues.
Decision-making: Frame trade-offs, drive decisions to a named owner, and log the reasoning so teams don’t relitigate.
Stakeholder communication: Tailor updates to each audience, lead with the decision needed or the risk, and avoid surprises.
Influence without authority: Align engineering, product, legal, security, and vendors when you don’t manage them.
Technical fluency: Understand architecture well enough to challenge unrealistic plans and translate between engineers and business leaders, without needing to write the code.
Meaningful metrics: Use leading indicators such as blocked-item age, defect trends, and throughput, not just red/yellow/green.
Launch and operational readiness: Plan rollout, go/no-go criteria, and rollback, and confirm business, delivery, and support owners plus capacity and recurring cost before go-live.
Governance awareness: Build security reviews, data classification, and approval gates into the plan from the start rather than bolting them on at the end
Project Management Tools: Familiarity with Atlassian tools, project management tools
Mandarin language skills are a nice-to-have

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.

Senior Technical Program Manager

The role

AI at SharkNinja

Senior Technical Program Manager

The role

AI at SharkNinja

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