Staff Product Manager - Hardware - Gecko Robotics

Role at a Glance 

Be the first PM hire for Gecko’s Pittsburgh-based Robotics organization, building hardware-software systems that transform the management of our civilization’s critical infrastructure. You’ll work across engineering, design, and operations to envision and deliver impactful solutions while defining what product management means for Robotics at Gecko.

What you will do

You’ll build a variety of hardware-software systems that bridge atoms to bits to create a high-fidelity picture of the state of physical infrastructure. You’ll work on robotic vehicles, sensor payloads, and the software required to control these systems and process the data they collect. You’ll engage with engineering and business partners, ranging from salespeople to operators/inspectors to subject matter experts, to set a clear vision for “what to build and why” at varied zoom levels and timescales. You’ll work hands-on alongside engineers to execute in the details and deliver excellent solutions that create meaningful value for Gecko’s customers and business.

You’ll work with both internal and external users - internal operators (robot drivers and industry experts) deploying our robots, external customers relying on Gecko’s robotically-acquired data (e.g. engineers charged with maintaining critical infrastructure), and forward-deployed engineering teams using Gecko’s robotics platform to experiment with novel asset types and damage mechanisms. You’ll also collaborate with the teams building Cantilever, Gecko’s software platform that enables analysis of our data to make better maintenance and capital allocation decisions. You’ll travel frequently to understand operational workflows and the physical environments where we deploy our robots.

About You

Required Skills 

• 4-6 years in product management or similar builder roles influencing engineering teams
• Track record of delivering new product with significant business impact, ideally in the enterprise context, ideally against ambiguous problem definitions with clear metrics
• Excellent at envisioning & communicating product goals at varied zoom levels and timescales, decomposing clear long-range vision into small tactical deliverables that deliver value fast.
• Ability to assess market and competition to develop data-driven justification for product investments.
• Ability to rapidly learn a technically complex domain from subject matter experts and describe feature-level problems with sufficient clarity for engineers to design the right solutions.
• Experience building hardware products operating in industrial environments, plus (ideally) robotic systems operating in regulated environments 
• Technical enough to answer one’s own questions and file rich bugs, e.g. analyze data with Python/Jupyter and use a cli to dig into logs in a *nix environment.
• Comfort managing (via influence) multiple complex projects with diverse stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to rapidly align stakeholders on new ideas
• Eager to get in the field and operationally close to the customer’s environment to ensure our solutions work in the real world
• Enthusiasm to operate in a fast-moving and fluid startup environment