Senior Product Designer | Manufacturing and Defense

Overview

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.

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Product Designer to join our Manufacturing team and design at the unique intersection of physical factory floors, hardware constraints, and cutting-edge physical AI. This is a high-impact, non-traditional role where you will translate firsthand customer insights into strategic product direction, building systems that directly strengthen America’s industrial base.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with users in customer organizations, often at their plant, forge, or shop.
• Collaborate with robotics teams, product strategists, and engineers to understand workflows, constraints, failure modes, and opportunities.
• Build mental models of manufacturing workflows, NDT data, robotics workflows, and customer decision loops, then communicate them clearly.
• Use sketches, prototypes, diagrams, research, product narratives, AI-assisted code, or whatever artifact aligns the team and drives decisions.
• Shape how design works inside Gecko: independent, collaborative, customer-grounded, technically fluent, and oriented toward progress.
• Develop firsthand understanding of customer domains, mental models, workflows, and operational realities.
• Turn field learning and customer feedback into product concepts that scale beyond a single user or customer.
• Ship improvements to real users and iterate based on what happens in the field.
• Raise the bar for product clarity, user empathy, and execution quality.

Requirements

• Experience owning complex, end-to-end product spaces.
• Deeply curious about users, technology, systems, and how work happens outside the software.
• Independent enough to push your own work forward and collaborative enough to push the team's work forward.
• Ability to translate direct customer conversations into scalable product thinking.
• Understands complex technologies and can articulate credible product solutions.
• Energized by the blurring lines between design, product strategy, engineering, and customer discovery.
• Comfortable working within technical environments, with the ability to prototype or contribute directly to code when it is the fastest path to product clarity.
• Experience in design for industrial, robotics, data-heavy, enterprise, or other complex technical domains.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Design, Industrial Design, Human Factors, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Experience: Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in product design, preferably in a technical or industrial context.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in design tools such as Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma, and strong understanding of UX/UI principles.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team, and a passion for solving complex problems.

Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and iterative design processes.
• Understanding of data-driven design and the ability to interpret and leverage data to inform design decisions.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package including base salary ($153K - $192K), performance-based bonuses, and equity.
• 401(k) matching program.
• Gender-neutral parental leave.
• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Mental health benefits.
• Ongoing professional development opportunities.
• Family planning assistance.
• Flexible paid time off.

Pay

$153K – $192K

Schedule

Full-time, On-site

Gecko Robotics is an office-first culture but understands 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.