Product Designer

Gecko Robotics is helping the world’s most important organizations ensure the availability, reliability, and sustainability of critical infrastructure. Gecko's complete and connected solutions combine wall-climbing robots, industry-leading sensors, and an AI-powered data platform to provide customers with a unique window into the current and future health of their physical assets. This enables real-time decision making to increase the efficiency and safety of operations, promote mission readiness, and protect the environment and civilization from the effects of infrastructure failure.

Be a product designer on Cantilever, Gecko’s new software platform. Cantilever is transforming the protection and maintenance of our civilization’s critical infrastructure, enabling deep analysis of machine-scale sensor data. Product Design plays a key role in bringing together internal users (Gecko robot operators and industry experts), external users (customers  at industrial sites around the world, charged with maintaining critical infrastructure), and the Gecko  engineering teams who build Cantilever. This is a generalist role including user research, information architecture, prototyping, ideation, workflow/interaction design, and visual design.

In  close collaboration with Cantilever’s lead designer, you’ll directly shape the future of the platform. You’ll work both at the edge, visiting customer industrial sites to learn and design in the field; and in the core, bringing those learnings back to Gecko to work them into the platform. To do this, you’ll get to work with and understand the problem sets of every team at the company.

You’ll partner closely with engineering teams building applications for internal users (e.g. our own engineers, field operators, and data analysts) and for external customer users. This includes applications that manage the acquisition and processing of robotic sensor data, and applications that let users interact with that data to improve the health of critical infrastructure. 

You’ll embed with “forward deployed” teams, building new workflows in the field, and help core software teams build extensible UI/UX that generalizes learnings from the forward-deployed teams. You’ll work at varied product maturities and zoom levels, ranging from lo-fi sketches to ideate major new capabilities, to hi-fi refinement of micro-interactions in existing UIs. You’ll travel to colocate with engineers and understand user workflows in the context of the physical infrastructure sites that Gecko protects.

Required Skills

• BA/MA or equivalent experience

• Minimum of 4 years of UX/Interaction Design experience, preferably in enterprise software

• Portfolio demonstrating high-quality UX/Interaction design work and strong visual design skill

• Comfort with ambiguity, figuring out what the problem is as well as how to solve it

• Adaptable and flexible; able to operate in a variety of modes while moving fast

• Adept at iterating quickly on coarse, low fidelity designs, and refining to high-fidelity specs

• An excellent communicator in spoken, visual, and written media

• Curious, inquisitive, eager to learn, and a great listener

• An inviting facilitator of a broad design process

Preferred Skills

• Basic programming abilities and/or a desire to learn

• Comfort digging into the analytics data  to inform your designs

• Familiarity with (but not necessarily experience or expertise in) all kinds of software workflows, e.g. web, 3D, video, CAD, productivity apps, pro and consumer, mobile and desktop, etc.

At Gecko, our people are our greatest investment. In addition to competitive compensation packages, we offer company equity, 401(k) matching, gender-neutral parental leave, full medical, dental, and vision insurance, mental health and wellness support, ongoing professional development, family planning assistance, and flexible paid time off. 

Gecko values collaboration, innovation, and partnership, and we believe we do our best work when we're together in person. We’re an office-first culture but understand that sometimes you may need to work from home. Many people are in the office five days a week, others need a bit more flexibility. Ultimately, we care about the outcomes we achieve - and creating a culture of autonomy and trust that enables that impact.

Gecko is committed to creating a culture of inclusion and belonging, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We believe it is our collective responsibility to uphold these values and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to join us in our mission to protect today’s infrastructure and give form to tomorrow’s. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law. If you are passionate about what you do and want to use your talents to support our critical mission, we’d love to hear from you.