Business Operations & Corporate Functions Co-op Opportunities

Location: Needham, MA, United States Department: 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.

Join the SharkNinja Early Edge Experience: Built for early career talent. Geared toward impact. Driven by speed. Whether you’re in a co-op or internship, our early talent program is designed to provide valuable exposure to the industry and a fast-paced professional environment. You’ll dive into meaningful projects and tasks that sharpen your skills and deepen your knowledge. Along the way, you’ll benefit from professional development opportunities, community events, and connections that make your experience well-rounded and enriching. Your time with us will culminate in an opportunity to showcase your contributions and learnings to SharkNinja leaders because this is a program for those ready to shape what’s next — fast.

Are you the person who finds the error everyone else already signed off on? Do you want to understand how a product gets from a factory to a shelf on another continent — and who decides how many to send? Are you excited by the challenge of making a fast-growing global company run better? If so, we invite you to learn more about Business Operations & Corporate Functions Co-op opportunities at SharkNinja.

This is a single application for business operations, commercial, finance, and corporate function early talent roles across SharkNinja. The hiring teams are spread across our sales and retail analytics, strategic planning, global expansion, supply chain, finance, People & Culture, communications, and legal functions.

Whichever team you join, you’ll work on the systems and decisions that keep a global consumer business moving. You might be building the dashboard a sales team runs its week on, modeling how many units a new product will sell in three countries, repositioning inventory after an S&OP meeting, reconciling what a product actually costs to make, localizing a launch for a market you’ve never visited, recruiting the next co-op cohort, or researching the regulation that shapes how we handle consumer data. If you’re analytical, organized, curious, and ready to make an impact from day one, we want to hear from you!

Teams that you can be connected to through this posting include:

Sales

Retail Excellence Systems & Analytics

Strategic Planning & Operations

APAC NPD Commercial Readiness

Geo Expansion

Supply Planning

Finance

People & Culture (Early Talent, Talent Acceleration, Employer Brand)

Corporate Communications

Legal

Here are some of the EXCITING things you’ll get to do

Work on the analysis, planning, and process behind real commercial decisions across Shark and Ninja

Build the reports, dashboards, models, and trackers that leaders actually make calls from

Turn messy data into a clear recommendation — and then defend it in the room

Partner across sales, marketing, supply chain, finance, product, and regional teams, often across time zones

Find the inefficiency nobody has gotten around to fixing, and fix it

Present your findings and recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders and senior leaders

Learn how a global consumer business actually operates — its systems, approvals, cadences, and speed

Own a meaningful project end to end and present your contributions to SharkNinja leaders

Depending on the team, your day-to-day may include

Sales, Retail Excellence & Analytics

Preparing sales reports, dashboards, and account presentations that track performance and surface actionable insights

Analyzing sales data and market trends across retail partners to identify growth opportunities and support account planning

Building and maintaining dashboards on sales performance, inventory, and retail KPIs using Excel, Tableau, Power BI, and SQL

Developing automated reporting solutions that improve operational efficiency and data accuracy

Supporting retailer-facing customer meetings — preparation, agendas, briefing documents, logistics, and follow-ups

Maintaining the national sales team’s resource hub and helping create digital learning content such as training modules, video tutorials, and interactive guides

Facilitating communication between internal departments and key accounts, and researching industry trends, competitors, and consumer preferences

Supporting retail initiatives that improve sell-through, shelf presence, and consumer experience

Strategic Planning, Global Expansion & Supply

Identifying and implementing process improvements across departments and geographies for standardization, efficiency, and cost reduction

Supporting a portfolio of transformation projects — stakeholder analysis, communication strategies, training programs, and KPI reporting to executive leadership

Monitoring retailer-level sell-through, connecting insights to forecast accuracy and supply needs, and building market share projections and high/medium/low forecast scenarios by country

Analyzing how promotions, media investments, and product placements affect forec