Senior Manager, Enterprise Master Data Management

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.  

 

Position Summary 

The Senior Manager, Enterprise Master Data Management (MDM) is a strategic, hands-on leadership role responsible for governing SharkNinja’s most critical master data domains: Product, Customer, and Supplier, with scope to expand to additional domains such as locations and partners. This -level role sets the strategic vision, establishes governance structures, and drives execution across functions to ensure SharkNinja’s data is clean, complete, standardized, retailer-ready, and AI-enabled. 

Reporting to the Director, Product Management – Global Data, the Senior Manager owns cross-functional alignment, accountability enforcement, and delivery of scalable, value-generating data foundations. This leader blends enterprise product management rigor, deep data governance expertise, and executive stakeholder influence to serve as the central point of accountability for master data at SharkNinja. 

Key Responsibilities 

Area 

What You’ll Own 

Strategic Vision & Roadmap 

Define and drive the enterprise-wide vision for MDM across domains; create and own a 3-year roadmap; balance immediate data quality fixes with long-term AI-readiness and scalability. 

Enterprise Data Governance & Council Leadership 

Establish and chair the Enterprise Data Governance Council; provide decision rights and escalation paths; enforce adoption of taxonomies, hierarchies, and standards; embed governance controls into upstream processes. 

Systems Integration & Automation 

Lead integration strategy across ERP, CRM, PLM, PIM, and analytics; sponsor automation and AI/ML-driven solutions for data capture, enrichment, and validation; influence technology roadmaps. 

AI Searchability & Discoverability 

Ensure all master data domains are semantically enriched for AI discoverability; drive adoption of metadata, ontologies, and vectorized data structures; enable conversational and generative interfaces. 

Stakeholder Engagement & Enforcement 

Engage leaders in PD, Marketing/DTC, eComm, Supply Chain, Regulatory, and Finance; deliver standardized, high-quality data endpoints to retailers and partners; hold functions accountable for compliance with standards and SLAs. 

Leadership & Influence 

Act as the enterprise thought leader for MDM; mentor product and data managers; coach business leaders on the value of clean data; elevate the overall maturity of SharkNinja’s Global Data function. 

Required Qualifications 

• 8+ years in master data management, data product management, or enterprise data governance leadership roles. 

• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide data governance initiatives across multiple domains (Product, Customer, Supplier). 

• Strong expertise in ERP, PIM, CRM, and PLM platforms (Oracle, SAP, Salsify, Salesforce). 

• Proven experience defining and impl