Director, AI Changemaker - People & Culture

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. Director, AI Changemaker — People & Culture Reports to: VP, Chief of Staff to the CEO Dotted Line: EVP, Chief People Officer The Role The Director, AI Change Maker is a high-impact, strategic / doer role at the intersection of People and Culture. The successful Director, AI Change Maker, People & Culture will operate as a player/coach, co-leading both the strategy and the hands-on project management execution of AI integration and work reimagination across SharkNinja – from hire to retire, service delivery, and enterprise storytelling – and will be the connective tissue that carries AI forward in our ways of working in all areas of the company You will build the data foundation, deploy AI capabilities, and transform workflows so that SharkNinja’s People & Culture organization operates faster, smarter, and delivers greater impact enterprise-wide. The Director, AI Change Maker carries a dual mandate: drive the current portfolio of AI initiatives to measurable completion, and partner directly with P&C leadership to shape what comes next. You do more than just deliver a fixed list of projects. You are here to build the AI capability and solutions that transform how People & Culture (P&C) works -- today and in the future. You will be measured on adoption, speed, and measurable business impact. You report directly to the VP, Chief of Staff to the CEO, with a dotted line to both the Chief People Officer. What You Will Do AI led Org Transformation Co-own the AI transformation roadmap across the full P&C function, identifying overlaps, dependencies, and consolidation opportunities Deploy work-reimagination and skills-mapping platforms to enable smarter workforce deployment across P&C and the enterprise Build and scale AI coaching tool for managers, enabling always-on development support, real-time feedback, and career pathing at a fraction of the cost of external coaching tools Build enterprise AI capability programs, run cross-functional sprints, and embed new ways of working at scale -- serving as the connective tissue between P&C and every other function's AI transformation Sequence and prioritize ruthlessly: act as PMO to drive each initiative to completion before starting the next, unless directed otherwise Leverage employee-first HR technology (e.g. Oracle, Greenhouse, Lattice) Enterprise Storytelling Work with enterprise storytelling and communications teams to build AI-augmented content production models, shifting from fully human time-consuming workflows to a majority-AI speed and high quality production model Build agents and AI-powered workflows that turn company moments into internal stories in near real time -- newsletters, town hall recaps, and internal posts drafted and published in hours, not days Talent Access (Hiring) & Service Delivery Deploy AI agents, automations, and workflows that augment service-level tasks across P&C -- scheduling, sourcing, onboarding, content production, informat…