Forward Deployed Growth Strategist (Commercial AI Solutions)

About Us 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. 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. About You Did you start your career in Media, Sales, or Analytics? Have you lived the day-to-day—a Monday spent reconciling three data sources, the analysis you rebuilt by hand every month, the question you knew was answerable if only you had a week to dig? Then you know the challenges of this work—the real version you worked around every day. [... source excerpt omitted ...] Today, you design and ship AI systems: agents that run reliably against messy, real-world data; pipelines that hold up under load; and tools people depend on every day. You have production scars. You own the full lifecycle—architecture, build, evaluation, and deployment—and you know what it takes to keep a system running once people rely on it. But you never stopped thinking like an operator. You know the difference between an interesting technical problem and a real commercial one. You are equally credible with a finance leader and a staff engineer, changing vocabulary without changing substance. You are half commercial, half technical—with no discount on either side. Not a bu [... source excerpt omitted ...] ommercial organization: Media. Sales. Strategy. Analytics. Each team is sitting on opportunities to make decisions faster, sharper, and at a scale no spreadsheet will ever reach. You will embed with a team running a real piece of a $6B+ business, across 41 categories identify where AI can materially change how it operates, and build the systems that make it happen. From problem definition through architecture, deployment, and adoption—it is yours to own. Then you drive adoption with the operators who own the P&L, improving what you built and pushing until the number actually moves. You are not advising from the sidelines or feeding tickets into someone else’s backlog. You are w