Senior Product Design Engineer — Coffee Appliances

We are looking for a Senior Product Design Engineer to join the Ninja Coffee NPD team in our Battersea office, helping to shape and deliver the next generation of Ninja Coffee products. This role focuses on driving product development from concept through to production, balancing consumer desirability, technical feasibility, and commercial viability to create outstanding consumer experiences.

What You’ll Do

• Drive product development across the Ninja Coffee category, supporting projects from concept through to production handover.
• Translate consumer and market insights into innovative, high-quality products that solve real consumer problems and deliver a distinctive Ninja edge.
• Develop and refine product concepts through sketching, CAD, prototyping, and engineering validation.
• Collaborate closely with global cross‑functional teams to ensure products are desirable, feasible, and commercially viable.
• Rapidly prototype and test ideas using workshop facilities, building models, prototypes, and test rigs as required.
• Identify and tackle technical risks early through structured testing and iterative development.
• Support engineering development activities including mechanism design, component development, material selection, and manufacturing feasibility.
• Work closely with suppliers and manufacturing partners to support product industrialisation and mass production readiness.
• Benchmark competitor products and emerging trends within the coffee category to identify opportunities for innovation and differentiation.
• Contribute to a fast‑paced, collaborative, and highly iterative development environment where ideas are challenged, refined, and improved quickly.

What You’ll Bring

• Around 5 years’ experience within a product design or product development environment.
• A well‑rounded designer/engineer mindset – creative, technical, and hands‑on, with the ability to sketch, prototype, and justify ideas using sound engineering principles.
• Degree‑level qualification in Product Design, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong CAD capability, ideally in SolidWorks or Creo.
• Understanding of plastics and metal mass‑production processes.
• Experience delivering consumer products from concept through to market.
• Experience within consumer electronics, kitchen appliances, or coffee products is desirable.
• Strong problem‑solving skills with a bias for action – comfortable failing fast, learning quickly, and adapting in an iterative development environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across global teams.
• Passion for innovation, consumer experience, and creating exceptional coffee products.

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. Together, we won’t just launch products— we’ll disrupt entire markets.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other class protected by legislation, and local law. SharkNinja will consider reasonable accommodations consistent with legislation, and local law. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact SharkNinja People & Culture at accommodations@sharkninja.com.