Senior Quality Engineer

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. Please note this role will be an ONSITE position out of the Needham, MA HQ Location.  A detailed-oriented, passionate and dynamic individual is needed to be an integral part of our post launch quality team, ensuring that we are continuously analyzing marketplace learnings to drive product and process improvements. In this position, you’ll experience unparalleled collaboration with many functions of the organization – Engineering, Customer Excellence, Marketing, Supply Chain, Creative, ID, Quality, Manufacturing and Senior Executives, offering you exposure and interaction rarely found in other roles in the organization. You’ll play a pivotal role in leading product and data analysis to determine reasons for returns, leveraging your learnings to drive sustainable solutions that provide measurable long-term improvements.   Responsibilities:   Analyze customer complaints and investigate field failures – translate learnings into actionable engineering and consumer-facing initiatives. You will represent the voice of the consumer and will coordinate corrective actions, follow-up, and reporting   Drive continuous improvement of product quality, through reduction and prevention of non-conformances while defining and implementing metrics to evaluate the impact of continuous improvement initiatives   Support suppliers in 8D responses and regular quality resolution update meetings, including written investigation reports and review supplier corrective actions   Participate in design reviews, DFMEA, safety reviews, and review the manufacturing and test documentation to ensure customer quality requirements are met or exceeded   View the entire consumer experience at a macro level to identify experience detractors and track product performance, communicating key learnings and developments to appropriate work flows for action   Partner with SharkNinja’s Customer Excellence team to monitor consumer reception and sentiment in field.   Leads input tracker meetings with cross functional teams. Discuss top issues and delegate actions to cross functional team   Conduct critical analysis on engineering changes (ECN) to make sure changes have no impact on degradation of quality of product   Tracks digital escalations and create accurate responses for customers to better understand our product   Manage product health reporting and push for continuous five-star experience via iterative design improvements.   Always strive for process efficiency – we value a go-getter who can make the most out of any situation and deliver impactful results   Act as a product “expert” for cross-functional team member questions and concerns   Present status of activities and special projects to senior management regularly   Qualifications:   Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience) in mechanical engineering, quality, product development, human factors engineering, or a related field, preferably at a consumer goods company   4+ years of related engineering experience, preferably at a consumer goods company   Exceptional analytical, problem solving, and root-cause analysis skills   Ability to multi-task and handle tasks with competing priorities effectively.   Excellent oral communication & report, business correspondence & procedure-writing skills.   Ability to be a team player and work independently    Change agent with energy, passion, and enthusiasm to drive change.   Demonstrated expertise to effectively communicate within all levels of the organization around design verification and validation activities; production &process controls; Corrective & Preventive Action (CAPA), consumer complaints, and product improvement activities.   Demonstrated collaboration, negotiation & conflict resolution skills, ability to lead, acknowledge, develop, communicate & implement a strategy to ensure compliance.   Demonstrated understanding of product development lifecycles, design change and document change control, product and process verification and validation methodologies, and manufacturing / production process control methodologies.   External Focus: Understanding customer needs, marketplace dynamics, industry trends, and the competitive landscape in the industry/function - Clear thinker: Simplifying strategy into specific actions with clear accountability, making decisions with speed & accuracy based on best available information & communicating priorities clearly & concisely.   Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint; knowledge of SharePoint a plus   Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline driven, high impact environment   Strong verbal, presentation, and written communication skills   Resourceful, well organized, highly dependable, efficient and detail oriented   Ability to be a team player and work independently   Ability to travel   Salary and Other Compensation: The annual sala