Role at a Glance 

Be the first product designer on Cantilever, Gecko’s new software platform that is transforming the protection and maintenance of our civilization’s critical infrastructure by enabling deep analysis of machine-scale sensor data. Product Design will play a key role at the nexus between internal users (think robot operators and industry experts), external users (engineers charged with maintaining critical infrastructure), and Gecko’s core software and forward-deployed engineering teams building Cantilever. This is a generalist role including user research, information architecture, prototyping, ideation, workflow/interaction design, and visual design.

What you will do

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

You may embed with forward deployed engineering teams building new workflows in the field, or 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 frequently to colocate with engineers and understand user workflows in the context of the physical infrastructure sites that Gecko protects.

About You

Required Skills

• Minimum of 2-4 years of UX/Interaction Design experience, preferably in enterprise software.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality UX/Interaction design work.
• Ability and interest to travel 50-60% to work directly with the teams you’re collaborating with.
• Mastery of some design tools (e.g. Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma, Photoshop, Keynote, Google slides, pencil & paper) and ability to skillfully learn & wield new ones as needed.
• Skill (and preferably experience) in the enterprise context decomposing particularly complex workflows and concepts into simple and intuitive UX.
• Desire to have a high impact in a fast-moving startup environment as a key contributor to a major new effort
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities to inform and communicate design rationale
• Ability to operate flexibly in a variety of modes while moving fast, listening, and adapting. 
• BA/MA or equivalent experience.

Preferred Skills 

• Comfort digging into the data with code or other analytic tools to inform your designs
• Comfort with frontend web application development e.g. ability to translate design specs into code that developers can use

NYC Pay Transparency Disclosure:

Salary Range: $120,000 -$185,000 annually plus equity and perks.

This salary range is based on the current available market data, and represents the expected salary range for this role. Gecko Robotics has minimal hierarchy and few titles, but has broad ranges of experience represented within roles. Should you have compensation expectations that exceed these bands, we’d love to hear from you and would welcome you to reach out to further discuss.