Staff Product Designer | Spatial Experiences

Gecko Robotics•New York, NY

3d•$196,000 - $255,000

About The Position

Gecko Robotics is seeking a product designer to create clear, useful experiences from rich spatial data for field operators and industrial workers. The role focuses on how people interact with 3D representations of real environments to understand inspections, coordinate robotic systems, interpret findings, and access information where work happens. The designer will own experiences from problem discovery through prototyping, implementation, and user-informed iteration, working with product engineers and specialists in field systems, reality capture, and 3D reconstruction. The position begins as an individual-contributor role with substantial ownership and potential to grow into broader team leadership. Within the first three to six months, success means identifying a valuable field workflow, establishing an initial interaction direction, and delivering a working experience with engineering for users to evaluate in a representative environment.

Requirements

Experience owning complex product experiences from discovery through delivery.
Strong spatial and interaction-design skills demonstrated through shipped products or substantial working prototypes.
Experience designing for AR/XR, 3D applications, robotics, technical tools, or similarly demanding environments.
Ability to build interactive prototypes in code or a real-time development environment and collaborate on production implementation.
Sound judgment about attention, readability, input methods, hardware limitations, and the relationship between digital interfaces and physical surroundings.
Comfort establishing direction in an emerging product area and working directly with users.

Nice To Haves

Experience with tools such as Unity, Unreal, Three.js, React, or native XR frameworks.

Responsibilities

Spend time with field operators, data analysts, and facility workers to understand their tasks, constraints, and decisions.
Define workflows and interactions across desktop 3D applications and AR/XR devices, selecting the medium that best serves each task.
Build functional prototypes using representative spatial data and test them with users.
Contribute directly to interface implementation alongside product engineers, with engineering support on architecture, data integration, performance, and production reliability.
Develop experiences for understanding robot activity, inspection coverage, findings, and exceptions within a physical environment.
Establish consistent interaction principles for spatial navigation, selection, annotation, information hierarchy, and feedback.
Evaluate what improves task completion, comprehension, and operator workload, and use evidence to guide iteration.
Own the experience from problem discovery through prototyping, implementation, and iteration with users.