Staff Product Designer, Gecko Robotics
Power Generation Mission
$139-208k
+ Equity
AI & robotics for the built world
Open for applications
AI & robotics for the built world
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$139-208k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To diagnose the health of our world's critical infrastructure.
Role
Who you are
- Are a senior or staff-level product designer with experience owning complex, end-to-end problem spaces
- Can be the sole designer on a product team with no shortage of engineering, product, bizdev, and momentum; can wear all the designer hats and even a few others
- Are comfortable making decisions with incomplete information
- Are energized that the lines between eng, product, and design are blurring
- Can build strong mental models of systems and workflows, even in complex technical domains, and can communicate them effectively to different audiences
- Prefer impact and progress over polish and process
- Are energized by customer-facing work and time in the field
- Bonus: Contribute code yourself (and not just vibe code :) )
What the job involves
- You’ll be a member of Gecko’s nascent product design team, collaborating with other designers across mission arcs to share knowledge, solve overlapping problems, and influence what product design becomes at Gecko
- You’ll embed on a single mission arc, working day-to-day with product strategists and engineers
- You’ll spend meaningful time with users, including regular site visits, and you’ll use what you learn to move the product forward quickly, even when the problem isn’t fully defined
- The work is in a deep, technical domain with plenty of bad “solutions.” We’re building complex, novel products that don’t have a playbook
- You’ll ensure that we build a solution that is not only technically right, but gives users superpowers to do their jobs
- You won’t just design solutions, but help the team decide what is worth building given customer reality, technical constraints, and time pressure, and then make sure it actually works for the users
- Work directly with customers in the field to understand real workflows, constraints, and failure modes
- Help the team decide what matters, what to ignore, and what to ship next in ambiguous problem spaces
- Design and iterate on workflows and interfaces for technically complex domains
- Use sketches, prototypes, diagrams, research, or whatever artifact is needed to align the team and drive decisions
- Move fluidly from discovery to execution, without relying on heavy process or perfect inputs
- Actively push the borders of the design role into product strategy and engineering implementation
- Travel to customer sites roughly once per month
- In the first 3 to 6 months you will:
- Develop deep, firsthand understanding of customer domains, mental models, and workflows
- Help the team converge on problems that meaningfully affect customer value, and chart a clear path to solve them
- Ship improvements to real users, and iterate on their feedback
- Raise the bar for how design is used to make product decisions on your team
Our take
The critical services of energy, government, and other essential sectors depend on reliable infrastructure, and this is ensured through regular inspections. However, collecting the physical data required for infrastructural inspection is impossible without a variety of specialized equipment, and analyzing the produced data is a highly time-consuming process.
Gecko Robotics provides physical data handling for critical infrastructure inspections, leveraging robot-enabled ultrasonics and cloud-based data processing to serve power, oil and gas, pulp and paper, chemical, and government sectors. The company achieves this by pairing human NDT II/III inspectors with data capturing robots, facilitating the deployment of various advanced inspection techniques to meet any regulatory standards.
Whilst robotics inspection is nothing new, Gecko stands out with its Toka series, flexible wall-climbing robots designed to gather far more data, far faster than traditional methods.
Recently the company deepened its partnership with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), signing multi-year agreements to deploy robotics and AI-powered analytics across ADNOC's operations and collaborate on local training programs. Following a $125M funding round, Gecko is also preparing to begin manufacturing robots in the UAE, reflecting both its international growth and its ambition to embed robotics and AI at the core of modern energy infrastructure.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jun 2025
$125m
SERIES D
Dec 2023
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $345.6m
Company HQ
Allegheny Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Leadership
Jake Loosararian
(Co-Founder & CEO)Jake o-founded Gecko Robotics in 2013 and has served as the CEO ever since.
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