Applied AI & Analytics Associate Opportunities

Summary

SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company known for its innovative lifestyle solutions. The Applied AI & Analytics Associate will work across various functions to leverage data and AI for decision-making, collaborating with senior leaders to address critical business challenges and enhance performance tracking.

Responsibilities

• Partner with VPs and Chiefs of Staff on analytical questions that require structured problem-framing, data modeling, or clear recommendations
• Contribute to multi-week analytical initiatives from scoping through delivery, working with senior stakeholders on managing expectations and timelines
• Build and maintain dashboards, decision-support tools, and analytical models that help senior leaders operate more effectively
• Use LLMs, AI automation, or machine learning to accelerate your own analysis and help other teams do the same
• Identify gaps in how the company tracks performance and propose practical improvements in collaboration with finance, operations, and product teams
• Work with teams to adopt analytical approaches or tools, contributing to broader adoption and impact
• Introduce better analytical methods and tools to raise the quality and consistency of output across teams
• Communicate findings clearly to senior stakeholders — translating complex analysis into straightforward recommendations that connect to business outcomes
• Connect the dots between data from multiple functions to surface insights no single team could see on their own
• Help support and review work from junior analysts or co-ops, contributing to their development

Skills

• 2+ years of experience in analytics, data science, or consulting with a demonstrated track record of analytical delivery
• Hands-on experience deploying or building with LLMs, generative AI, or automation tools — not just familiarity, but practical usage in real work
• Strong working command of SQL and Python — you pull and manipulate data directly and can build scalable analytical solutions
• Proficiency building dashboards and analytical tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or similar)
• Clear communication skills — you can present findings to senior stakeholders and explain complex analysis in plain language
• Demonstrated ability to take an ambiguous business question and structure a complete analytical approach
• Experience managing multiple workstreams and delivering against timelines with limited oversight
• Previous project or program management experience — managing scope, timelines, and cross-functional coordination
• Understanding of impact orientation — you connect your analytical work to business results and can articulate what changed because of your analysis
• Experience contributing to adoption — you've worked on building or improving a tool, process, or approach that a team has used; you're learning what it takes to drive change
• Background in consumer products, retail, or e-commerce — you understand margin dynamics, go-to-market, and how these businesses scale
• Experience with advanced statistical methods — experimentation, time-series analysis, or applied ML
• Hands-on experience with large-scale data infrastructure — designing data pipelines, working with modern cloud platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks)
• Prior exposure to working alongside executive or senior leadership teams
• Experience identifying and solving systemic problems — moving beyond answering a single question to fixing how a team or function operates

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2+ years of experience in analytics, data science, or consulting with a demonstrated track record of analytical delivery
• Hands-on experience deploying or building with LLMs, generative AI, or automation tools — not just familiarity, but practical usage in real work
• Strong working command of SQL and Python — you pull and manipulate data directly and can build scalable analytical solutions
• Proficiency building dashboards and analytical tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or similar)
• Clear communication skills — you can present findings to senior stakeholders and explain complex analysis in plain language
• Demonstrated ability to take an ambiguous business question and structure a complete analytical approach
• Experience managing multiple workstreams and delivering against timelines with limited oversight
• Previous project or program management experience — managing scope, timelines, and cross-functional coordination
• Understanding of impact orientation — you connect your analytical work to business results and can articulate what changed because of your analysis
• Experience contributing to adoption — you've worked on building or improving a tool, process, or approach that a team has used; you're learning what it takes to drive change

Nice to Haves

• Background in consumer products, retail, or e-commerce — you understand margin dynamics, go-to-market, and how these businesses scale
• Experience with advanced statistical methods — experimentation, time-series analysis, or applied ML
• Hands-on experience with large-scale data infrastructure — designing data pipelines, working with modern cloud platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks)
• Prior exposure to working alongside executive or senior leadership teams
• Experience identifying and solving systemic problems — moving beyond answering a single question to fixing how a team or function operates

Benefits

• 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
• Back-up child and eldercare days
• Product discounts
• Referral bonus program
• Competitive health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Employee stock purchase options
• Wellness programs
• SharkNinja product discounts
• High impact Learning Programs featuring bold voices redefining what’s possible