Senior Product Designer | Power Generation Mission

Gecko Robotics•New York, NY

5d•Onsite

About The Position

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. Mission Arc Power: Software used by power plant operators and engineers to understand asset condition, optimize systems, and reduce operational risk. This team has a lot to prove, and a lot of agency to define the outcomes that prove it.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Contribute code yourself (and not just vibe code :) )

Responsibilities

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
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