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SharkNinja, a global product design and technology company, seeks a Senior Director of Strategic Growth Initiatives & Transformation in London. You will drive high-priority growth programs, partnering with Commercial, Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations to scale new markets and channels. Role emphasizes AI-enabled initiatives, cross-functional leadership, and disciplined execution to deliver measurable business impact while aligning with senior leadership expectations.

About Us SharkNinjais a global product design and technology company, with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positivelyimpactpeople's lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja, the company has a proventrack recordof bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowedSharkNinjato enter multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts with more than4,100associates, 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. Senior Director, Strategic Growth Initiatives & Transformation Reports To: VP, Strategic Growth Initiatives & Transformation Location: London, UK Travel: Moderate domestic and international travel required. About SharkNinja SharkNinjais a global product design and technology company with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positivelyimpactpeople's lives around the world. Powered by Shark and Ninja, the company has a proventrack recordof bringing disruptive innovation to market, entering new product categories, and expanding into new markets and channels to drive exceptional growth. About the Role The Senior Director,Strategic Growth Initiatives & Transformation is a highly influential individual contributor responsible for driving the global execution of SharkNinja's highest-priority growth initiatives. Partners across the enterprise to bring global strategic growth opportunities to life through disciplined execution, cross-functional leadership, and organizational alignment. This role focuses on geographic expansion, new channel development, direct-to-consumer growth, social commerce, and other commercial opportunities. The Senior Director leads initiatives from desired business outcomes through implementation, adoption, and scale while partnering across Commercial, Sales, Marketing, Product Development, Operations, Planning, Supply Chain, Digital Technology, Analytics, Compliance, Finance, Customer Experience, and other key functions. Strategic Growth Execution Lead execution of SharkNinja's highest-priority growth initiatives, ensuring successful delivery of measurable business outcomes. Drive initiatives focused on geographic expansion, new market entry, channel expansion, direct-to-consumer growth, social commerce, and other strategic commercial opportunities. Translate strategic priorities into integrated execution plans, defining milestones, dependencies, risks, and success metrics. Build strong partnerships across the enterprise to align resources, priorities, and execution plans. Identify and resolve execution risks, removing barriers and driving timely decision-making. Cross-Functional Leadership Lead initiatives from desired business outcomes through implementation, adoption, and scale, ensuring long-term business impact. Develop and execute change management strategies that drive stakeholder alignment, organizational readiness, user adoption, and realization of intended business benefits. Coordinate activities across cross-functional teams to ensure successful execution. Drive accountability across stakeholders while fostering collaboration and alignment. Communicate initiative progress, risks, and recommendations to executive leadership. Program Governance & Business Performance Develop and maintain integrated project plans, governance processes, executive dashboards, and performance metrics. Build business cases and support investment decisions for strategic growth initiatives. Monitor initiative performance against objectives and recommend course corrections. Lead post-launch reviews to evaluate business impact and identify opportunities for continuous improvement. Transformation & Operating-Model Enablement Stand up repeatable playbooks, standardized processes, and scalable best practices that allow new markets, channels, and categories to launch and scale faster. Diagnose structural, process, and capability gaps that impede expansion, and design operating-model changes that sustain impact beyond individual initiatives. Establish enterprise operating rhythms and governance that reinforce accountability, transparency, and drive rapid progress towards growth aspirations. What Success Looks Like New markets, channels, or commercial models stood up against committed timelines and adoption targets. Measurable value delivered - revenue, margin, or efficiency - traceable to prioritized growth initiatives. Repeatable playbooks and operating rhythms adopted by functional teams and sustained beyond initial launch. Executive stakeholders aligned on priorities, with transparent reporting on progress, risks, and course corrections. What You'll Bring Experience 12+ years of experience in strategy execution, business operations, consulting, program leadership, commercial execution, or related disciplines. Proven track record leading complex cross-functional initiatives that deliver measurable business results. Experience executing market expansion, channel expansion, commercialization, or enterprise growth initiatives. Demonstrated experience leading AI-enabled initiatives, including evaluating, implementing, and driving adoption of solutions that create measurable business value and operational impact. Experience working with executive leaders and influencing decisions across complex matrix organizations. Willingness and ability to travel frequently, both domestically and internationally. Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred. Core Competencies Exceptional program and execution leadership skills. Strong commercial and business acumen. Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities. Outstanding executive communication and presentation skills. Ability to influence and drive accountability without direct authority. Expertise in change management, stakeholder engagement, and organizational adoption. Strong understanding of AI technologies and their practical application to solve business problems and improve organizational performance. Leadership Profile Results-oriented with a relentless focus on execution. Thrives in ambiguity and fast-changing business environments. Builds credibility through collaboration, influence, and consistent delivery. Demonstrates strong ownership and sound business judgment. Comfortable working across organizational boundaries to drive enterprise-wide outcomes. How You'll Lead with SharkNinja's Success Drivers Rarely Satisfied: You challenge the status quo and push every growth initiative beyond "good enough" toward step-change impact. Progress Over Perfection: You move fast, learn from small failures, and keep initiatives advancing rather than stalling for certainty. Details Make the Difference: Your rigor ensures execution plans, milestones, and metrics hold up as initiatives scale. Winning is a Team Sport: You partner across functions so cross-functional teams win together, not in silos. Communicating for Impact: You deliver clear, honest communication that builds alignment from the front line to the executive team. What We Offer We offer competitive health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, employee stock purchase options, wellness programs, SharkNinja product discounts, and more. We empower personal and professional growth through high-impact learning and development opportunities and provide the chance to make a meaningful impact in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment. Salary and Other Compensation The annual salary range for this position is from $217,500-$280,000 USD. Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. Benefits include 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, backup child and eldercare days, product discounts, referral bonus program, and more. Our Culture At SharkNinja, we don't just raise the bar-we push past it every single day. Our Outrageously Extraordinary mindset drives us to tackle the impossible, push boundaries, and deliver results that others only dream of. If you thrive on breaking out of your swim lane, you'll be right at home. We offer competitive health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, employee stock purchase options, wellness programs, SharkNinja product discounts, and more . click apply for full job details

About Us SharkNinjais a global product design and technology company, with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positivelyimpactpeople's lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja, the company has a proventrack recordof bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowedSharkNinjato enter multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts with more than4,100associates, 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. Social Creative Strategy Director, EMEA Location: London or Paris 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 3,600+ associates, the company's products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world. As our brands scale globally - and particularly across EMEA - social isn't a support channel, it's where discovery, conversation, and demand are created. We're building a social creative engine designed to move at the speed of culture across every market we operate in, and we need a creative leader whose work people already know, recognize, or can point to. Why This Role Matters Social-first creative at SharkNinja is built to be felt, shared, and acted on rather than passively watched. Across EMEA, our opportunity is enormous - and we need someone who's already run creative at this scale, with a body of work that shows it: big productions, talent, and a large distributed team of creators, not a solo operator. Based in France, the Creative Strategy Director is the creative owner for SharkNinja brands on social across EMEA markets - starting with the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and expanding beyond. This role is embedded within the Global Social Creative team, working hand in hand with global creative leads to ensure every market's social presence is original, culturally relevant, and best-in-class. This is a senior creative leadership role for someone with a proven track record - one they can show, not just describe - spanning both influencer/creator-led work and organic brand content. Someone who knows how to turn cultural fluency into concepts that travel, who has run large-scale productions involving talent and creators, and who can lead, guide, and scale a sizable cross-regional creative team through strong process rather than just personal output. What You'll Do Own Social-First Creative for SharkNinja Brands Across EMEA Serve as the creative lead and tastemaker for SharkNinja brands (Shark and Ninja) on social across EMEA - with primary focus on the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain - in tight collaboration with the Global Social Creative team and VP, Social Creative Develop concepts that span both influencer/creator-led and organic content, rooted in cultural relevance, for new and existing products across organic, paid, and influencer/creator channels Ensure creative work is designed to travel across markets and platforms - through sharing, remixing, and conversation - while respecting local cultural nuance Run Large-Scale Productions and Talent Collaborations Lead and direct large-scale social productions involving talent, creators, and external partners - from concept through execution - across multiple EMEA markets simultaneously Direct shoots and productions both virtually and in-person, ranging from lo fi creator content to high production, talent driven moments Build the relationships and processes needed to work effectively with talent, agencies, and creators at scale Lead and Empower a Large, Cross-Regional Creator Team Provide clear creative direction, feedback, and guidance to a large team of creators spanning multiple EMEA markets - building the frameworks and processes that let the team move fast and consistently without needing everything routed through one person Set standards and playbooks that empower local and regional creators to make strong creative decisions independently, while staying aligned to brand and cultural relevance Act as the creative connective tissue between global strategy, local market needs, and a distributed creator network Partner Across Teams and Markets Work hand in hand with the Global Social Creative team, Brand, Social Strategy, Influencer, and Media partners to ensure EMEA social creative is aligned with global brand vision while being locally excellent Shape creator and influencer creative across EMEA markets by providing strong concepts, direction, and feedback at scale Raise the Creative Bar Push for work that is culturally fluent, platform native, and unmistakably social first across each EMEA market Identify what's working, what's stale, and where each market's brand presence should experiment next Build and evolve the creative playbooks, guidance, and processes that scale great work across a large, distributed team - ensuring EMEA learnings feed back into global creative strategy What Success Looks Like Social content across EMEA markets that earns engagement because it's worth engaging with A creative team, spanning influencer and organic work across regions, operating with clear guidance and shared process - not needing constant hands on direction Large scale productions with talent that land on time, on brand, and on culture across multiple markets at once Strong partnership with the Global Social Creative team, local studios, and creators that results in consistent, high quality output across markets Who You Are 8+ years of experience in social first creative, ideally spanning both influencer/creator led and organic content, with multi market or international experience - and a body of work that demonstrates it Recognized work in market: campaigns, creator collaborations, or productions that have run, been seen, and driven results you can speak to in detail A proven track record running large scale social productions involving talent and creators - not just directing small shoots Experience leading or guiding a large, distributed creative team, with the ability to build process and standards that empower others rather than centralizing all creative decisions Fluent in internet culture, platforms, and formats across EMEA - you understand what works in different markets and why, and your own work reflects it Comfortable directing talent and creators across time zones and cultures, with the leadership presence to guide a team at scale Opinionated, collaborative, and allergic to boring content - with the cultural sensitivity to adapt ideas for local relevance Why Join SharkNinja Build social creative for EMEA from the inside at a global, product driven company with serious momentum Own the creative direction - and the team and process behind it - for real brands with real cultural presence across EMEA's biggest markets Work inside a global team that values taste, speed, and execution - and gives you the autonomy to lead how SharkNinja shows up in EMEA Help define what "social first" means at scale, across a large team and across international markets One Line That Captures It At SharkNinja, social creative isn't content to fill feeds - it's work designed to move people, produced at scale, by a team empowered to do it right, across every market we're in. Our Culture At SharkNinja, we don't just raise the bar-we push past it every single day. Our Outrageously Extraordinary mindset drives us to tackle the impossible, push boundaries, and deliver results that others only dream of. If you thrive on breaking out of your swim lane, you'll be right at home. What We Offer We offer competitive health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, employee stock purchase options, wellness programs, SharkNinja product discounts, and more. We empower your personal and professional growth with high impact Learning Programs featuring bold voices redefining what's possible. When you join, you're not just part of a company-you're part of an outrageously extraordinary community. To gether, we won't just launch products-we'll disrupt entire markets. At SharkNinja, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are vital to our global success. Valuing each unique voice and blending all of our diverse skills strengthens SharkNinja's innovation every day. We support ALL associates in bringing their authentic selves to work, making an impact, and having the opportunity for career acceleration. With help from our leadership, associates, and our community . click apply for full job details