Director, Finance AI & Automation

The role

You will own the design, build, and deployment of AI capabilities within a global Finance organization. You will personally build production AI agents and automations to change how Finance plans, closes, controls, and decides.

What you will do

• Drive the Finance AI and automation roadmap from opportunity identification to production deployment.
• Personally build agents and automations.
• Set and deliver the value case in gross margin dollars, headcount productivity, or enterprise value.
• Deploy the team across FP&A, Accounting, Internal Audit and SOX, Tax, and Treasury.
• Partner with leadership to identify and sequence high value use cases.
• Build and own the Finance agent register and control tiering framework.
• Establish engineering standards for Finance built automation.
• Ensure funded agents consume governed financial dimensions.
• Partner with Digital Technology, Data, and external partners on platform selection and integration.
• Lead and develop a small team of highly technical finance professionals.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field
• 8 to 10 years of progressive experience, with a genuine blend of Finance and Technology
• Demonstrated experience owning financial processes end to end in FP&A, Accounting and close, Internal Audit or SOX, Tax, or Treasury, in a public company environment
• Hands on expertise building and deploying AI agents and automations into production
• Experience working inside a public company control environment
• Experience leading technical delivery, including managing or mentoring engineers, analysts, or a mixed team
• Track record of quantifying and defending the financial impact of a technology investment to executive leadership
• Experience working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, matrixed global organization
• AI agent design, build, and deployment, including agentic workflow orchestration and tool use
• Large language model application development, prompt and context engineering, evaluation, and guardrail design
• Claude Code or an equivalent agentic coding environment
• Python and SQL

Nice to have

• MBA, CPA, CMA, or an advanced degree in a technical discipline
• Claude, Claude Code, and the Anthropic API
• Oracle ERP and Oracle EPM or FCCS
• Palantir Foundry
• Snowflake
• Power BI, Tableau, or Domo
• Python, SQL, Git
• Microsoft Excel (Advanced), Power Query, Microsoft PowerPoint

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

About the company

SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company with a diversified portfolio of lifestyle solutions. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, the company has more than 4,100 associates.