About This Role

SharkNinja is a global company with a fast-growing presence across Latin America. As Ninja products reach more LATAM households — across cooking, food prep, treats, and beverages — we have a significant opportunity to ensure our products are developed, validated, and positioned in a way that truly reflects the richness and diversity of LATAM culinary culture.

This person will embed as a culinary intelligence partner to the Ninja Test Kitchen — bringing authentic regional expertise to product testing, KPI development, ingredient gap analysis, and story creation across all Ninja categories. LATAM is not a single market, and the person in this seat has a real opportunity to shape how Ninja shows up across one of the world’s most vibrant and diverse culinary regions.

What You’ll Do

Product Testing & Validation

• Execute structured appliance tests using authentic, locally sourced LATAM ingredients across all Ninja categories
• Identify and document functional gaps where appliance performance diverges from local consumer expectations
• Maintain rigorous test records: datasheets, photo and video capture, sensory observations, and protocol notes

KPI & Ingredient Gap Development

• Partner with Ninja Test Kitchen to inform performance KPIs that reflect authentic LATAM consumer expectations
• Build and maintain a living ingredient gap framework — documenting where locally sourced ingredients behave differently from US equivalents in ways that affect appliance performance
• Surface gaps with engineering implications early, so product teams can act before launch

Recipe & Story Development

• Develop and validate, appliance-specific recipes that reflect genuine regional consumer behavior
• Translate culinary findings into product story inputs — hero dishes, demos, social virality, use-case claims, and positioning that resonates authentically with LATAM consumers
• Note meaningful sub-regional variation where relevant across Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, and beyond

Knowledge Transfer

• Serve as Ninja Test Kitchen’s go-to resource for LATAM culinary intelligence — ingredients, techniques, trends, and consumer behaviors
• Lead regular virtual knowledge-share sessions with the Needham team and contribute to a living LATAM culinary reference guide
• Support sell-in stories with the commercial organization linking functionality to the experience.

What We’re Looking For

Required

• 5+ years of professional culinary or culinary development experience with a strong foundation in LATAM cuisines
• Formal culinary training or equivalent — degree from a recognized program in Mexico or LATAM preferred
• Hands-on experience working with or evaluating kitchen appliances through a culinary and functional lens
• Deep knowledge of LATAM ingredients and how they may differ from US-market equivalents in ways that affect cooking performance
• Bilingual Spanish / English — professional fluency in both written and spoken communication
• Self-directed and organized — able to manage workstreams independently without on-site supervision
• Strong documentation skills — able to write structured test reports and communicate findings clearly to a technical audience

Preferred

• R&D, test kitchen, or food product development experience
• Familiarity with sensory evaluation — ability to articulate taste, texture, aroma, and appearance in structured terms
• Culinary knowledge spanning multiple LATAM markets — Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, or Caribbean
• Experience working with remote, cross-functional US-based teams
• Travel availability 20% of the time