LATAM Culinary Consultant - Temporary Role

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