---
title: 'Deployment Lead | Oil & Gas at Gecko Robotics'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/deployment-lead-oil-gas-gecko-robotics-new-york-hnvjk6hgpy5j'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-09-08'
---

# Deployment Lead | Oil & Gas at Gecko Robotics

- **Company:** Gecko Robotics
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $160k–$260k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-04-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gecko-robotics/7d5f6da7-0b21-4e59-a16f-6267c898f1d5/application

**Skills:** Product Management, Strategic Account Management, Business Development, Program Delivery, Stakeholder Management, Problem Solving, Data Analysis, Model Building, Engineering Background, Technical Team Collaboration

> The Deployment Lead manages high-impact customer deployments for Gecko Robotics'ics' AI-powered data platform, serving as the bridge between customers and internal product and engineering teams. This role involves strategic account management, executing complex initiatives, and ensuring successful delivery of busine...

## Job description

## WHAT WE DO

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.

## ROLE AT A GLANCE

Gecko’s Deployment Leads are the driving force behind delivering Cantilever—our AI-powered data platform—into the hands of customers. This role sits at the critical intersection of customer value, product strategy, and execution. Deployment Leads are part product manager, part project manager, and part strategic account lead. They manage a small number of high-stakes deployments (typically 1–2 at a time), where they are responsible for uncovering the most valuable problems within complex, often unfamiliar industries—and ensuring Gecko solves them effectively.

This is a highly dynamic, customer-facing role. Deployment Leads serve as the connective tissue between our customers and our internal teams—especially our product strategists and forward deployed engineers—ensuring we are both building the right product and getting it over the finish line. They’re skilled at identifying what's most important, navigating ambiguity, handling tough stakeholder dynamics, and keeping everyone aligned and moving forward.

The Deployment Lead is ultimately accountable for making sure Cantilever delivers value. They are business-savvy problem solvers who thrive in chaos, ask great questions, challenge assumptions, and build trust with customers. They are relentless in pushing toward the outcomes that matter the most.

## WHAT YOU WILL DO

- Serve as the primary owner of 1–2 high-impact customer deployments, acting as the bridge between Gecko’s platform and customer business value.
- Partner closely with Product Strategists and Forward Deployed Engineers to define what should be built, why it matters, and how to ensure it lands successfully.
- Engage directly with customer stakeholders—at all levels—to uncover high-value problems and maintain strong relationships, even in challenging situations.
- Drive execution and implementation of Cantilever, ensuring delivery of business outcomes—not just software.
- Navigate ambiguous, fast-moving environments with confidence, structure, and sound judgment.
- Build business models and use data to support strategic recommendations and validate solutions.
- Travel as needed (25–75%) to support deployments, engage stakeholders, and remove blockers.

## ABOUT YOU

Required Skills

- 5+ years of experience in roles such as product management, strategic account management, consulting, business development, or program delivery — ideally with a blend of these that shows you can flex across strategic thinking, customer engagement, and execution.
- Demonstrated success managing complex deployments or initiatives across multiple stakeholders and functions.
- Proven ability to identify and prioritize high-value business problems, even in industries or domains you’re new to.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to navigate tough stakeholder conversations and align cross-functional teams.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and managing fast-moving, evolving environments.
- A structured problem solver who can break down abstract business challenges and build models or frameworks to support solutions.
- Experience working closely with or within enterprise software organizations.
- Willing and able to travel 50% of the time or as needed.

## Preferred Skills

- Background in engineering or experience working closely with technical teams.
- Prior work in ambiguous, fast-paced environments (startups, consulting, etc.).
- Strong analytical instincts with the ability to dive into data and extract insights.

## WHO WE ARE

At Gecko, our people are our greatest investment. In addition to competitive compensation packages, we offer company equity, 401(k) matching, gender-neutral parental leave, full medical, dental, and vision insurance, mental health, ongoing professional development, family planning assistance, and flexible paid time off.

Gecko values collaboration, innovation, and partnership, and we believe we do our best work when we're together in person. We’re an office-first culture but understand 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. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law. If you are passionate about what you do and want to use your talents to support our critical mission, we’d love to hear from you.

## About Gecko Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gecko Robotics uses AI-powered robots to inspect, monitor, and maintain critical infrastructure for energy, manufacturing, and defense industries.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Jake Loosararian, Troy Demmer

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Robotics Engineering, AI-powered Industrial Inspection, Critical Infrastructure Maintenance
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise – Fortune 100 companies in energy, oil & gas, manufacturing, defense, and government sectors (U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force)
- **Mission or purpose**: "Diagnosing the health of our world's critical infrastructure." Gecko provides unprecedented visibility into asset health for confident decision-making at scale, ensuring the availability, reliability, and sustainability of critical infrastructure.

## Products & Services
- **[Cantilever®](https://www.geckorobotics.com/)**: An AI-powered operating platform that unifies high-fidelity physical data from Gecko's fleet of robots and fixed sensors into a single source of truth. It enables teams to achieve operational excellence through actionable data for immediate and long-term planning.
- **[Robotic Fleet](https://www.geckorobotics.com/)**: Robots that climb, crawl, swim, and fly, carrying ultrasonic sensors and cameras to capture first-order data from inside critical assets like boilers, tanks, pipes, and pressure vessels.
- **Services**: Inspection services, predictive maintenance, data analytics, and asset health consulting for power generation, oil & gas, defense, steel, mining, and pulp & paper industries.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1.25 billion (as of Series D round in June 2025) — [CBInsights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/gecko-robotics)
- **Total Funding**: $347.4M raised across multiple rounds, including a Series D ($125M, June 2025) and a Series D-II — [CBInsights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/gecko-robotics)
- **Annual Revenue**: Estimated at $43.8M (LinkedIn data) — [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/geckorobotics)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2016 batch), E1 Ventures, Leblon Capital, Innova Capital Partners, Morrison Seger, Nour Nouf Ventures, and 48+ others. Key partners include the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, ADNOC, and Trident.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - $71M deal with U.S. Navy to reduce maintenance delays and achieve 80% fleet readiness by 2027 — [geckorobotics.com](https://www.geckorobotics.com/news/navy-readiness)
  - Multiple agreements with ADNOC to deploy Cantilever across energy assets and launch UAE national training programs — [geckorobotics.com](https://www.geckorobotics.com/news/adnoc-group)
  - New partnership with Trident to accelerate U.S. Navy production with AI and robotics (March 2026) — [geckorobotics.com](https://www.geckorobotics.com/news/trident-navy-production)

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in AI+Robotics for critical infrastructure**: Gecko is the pioneer of "AIR technology" (AI + Robotics) for the built world, combining physical robots with an AI-powered software platform.
- **Proprietary high-fidelity data**: Creates first-order data layers that are difficult for competitors to replicate, giving customers a single source of truth for asset health.
- **Deep customer relationships**: Works with Fortune 100 companies and the U.S. military, with contracts that are mission-critical and long-term.
- **88+ patents** covering robotics, nondestructive testing, and piping — [CBInsights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/gecko-robotics)
- **Proven ROI**: Cited examples of increasing throughput by 40% in defense industrial base and preventing catastrophic failures (e.g., boiler explosions).

## Strategic Focus
- **Defense & government expansion**: Major push to scale partnerships with the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and allied nations to modernize military infrastructure.
- **International growth**: Operating in 7 countries including the UAE, Canada, India, Singapore, South Africa, and the UK.
- **Platform expansion**: Growing Cantilever as the operating system for physical infrastructure, extending beyond inspections into operations, maintenance, and capital planning.
- **AI and software first**: Increasing investment in predictive AI, analytics, and the software platform to own the full asset lifecycle.

## Why Work Here
- **High-impact work**: Engineers and operators work on problems that directly affect national security, energy reliability, and industrial safety. "Your work unlocks solutions at the bedrock of the world’s most critical industries." — [Careers Page](https://www.geckorobotics.com/careers)
- **Culture**: Described as "Rust on our boots, dirt under our nails" — hands-on, gritty, real-world engineering. The team is driven by solving complex physical-world problems.
- **Hybrid/Office**: Offices in Pittsburgh (HQ), Houston, Boston, New York City, and Abu Dhabi. Field roles are heavily on-site.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on Forward Deployed Engineers (builders in the field), robotics, software, and 3D visualization. Engineering culture is described as ambitious, autonomous, and impact-focused.
- **Talent sources**: Frequent hires from Palantir, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Carnegie Mellon, Aurora, and US Navy — indicating a culture of high-performance and technical rigor.
- **Notable perks**:
  - Company is at the frontier of AI + Robotics with a $1.25B valuation and strong government contracts
  - Opportunities for field deployment to customer sites (power plants, naval bases, oil rigs)
  - Open roles include: Forward Deployed Engineer, Robot Field Operator, Software Engineer (3D Visualization), Product Security Engineer, NDT Specialist — [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/geckorobotics/jobs/)

## Sources
1. [geckorobotics.com](https://www.geckorobotics.com/) — Company homepage
2. [geckorobotics.com/about-us](https://www.geckorobotics.com/about-us) — Founding story and history
3. [geckorobotics.com/careers](https://www.geckorobotics.com/careers) — Careers overview and culture
4. [linkedin.com/company/geckorobotics](https://www.linkedin.com/company/geckorobotics) — LinkedIn company page, headcount, salary data
5. [cbinsights.com/company/gecko-robotics](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/gecko-robotics) — Funding, patents, investors, financial data
6. [geckorobotics.com/news/navy-readiness](https://www.geckorobotics.com/news/navy-readiness) — $71M Navy deal
7. [geckorobotics.com/news/trident-navy-production](https://www.geckorobotics.com/news/trident-navy-production) — Trident partnership

## Other roles at Gecko Robotics

- [Strategic Account Manager | Domestic Oil & Gas](https://feeny.ai/job/strategic-account-manager-domestic-oil-gas-gecko-robotics-pittsburgh-8mcnnh1c46s2) — Pittsburgh, PA
- [Contracts Capture Strategist](https://feeny.ai/job/contracts-capture-strategist-gecko-robotics-washington-pm462rx510jh) — Washington, DC
- [People Partner](https://feeny.ai/job/people-partner-gecko-robotics-pittsburgh-6pmgmpd5acsc) — Pittsburgh, PA
- [Field & Events Marketing Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/field-events-marketing-manager-gecko-robotics-pittsburgh-gr51g70t8vkz) — Pittsburgh, PA
- [Deployment Lead | Navy Manufacturing](https://feeny.ai/job/deployment-lead-navy-manufacturing-gecko-robotics-pittsburgh-4xk06vzqqa7j) — Pittsburgh, PA
- [Executive Assistant](https://feeny.ai/job/executive-assistant-gecko-robotics-pittsburgh-w79tqkgjchds) — Pittsburgh, PA
- [Enterprise Security Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/enterprise-security-engineer-gecko-robotics-pittsburgh-fs4zreqzxr82) — Pittsburgh, PA
- [Robotics Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/robotics-software-engineer-gecko-robotics-pittsburgh-z768j8x04j7y) — Pittsburgh, PA
- [Recruiting Coordinator](https://feeny.ai/job/recruiting-coordinator-gecko-robotics-pittsburgh-zt8prw0nzxh7) — Pittsburgh, PA
- [NDT Advanced Services Operator | Commercial](https://feeny.ai/job/ndt-advanced-services-operator-commercial-gecko-robotics-houston-zgyqaa3d0v3a) — Houston, TX