--- title: 'Executive Assistant at Gecko Robotics' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/executive-assistant-gecko-robotics-pittsburgh-w79tqkgjchds' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Executive Assistant at Gecko Robotics - **Company:** Gecko Robotics - **Location:** Pittsburgh, PA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-19 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gecko-robotics/54907376-55c0-402b-b52f-bea8b2b7e36d ## 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 We’re looking for an experienced Executive Assistant to support Gecko’s Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer. This onsite Pittsburgh role is an opportunity to partner closely with two executives leading critical areas of a fast-growing robotics and technology company. You’ll create leverage for both leaders by managing complex calendars and travel, anticipating needs, protecting time for the highest-priority work, and ensuring decisions and commitments turn into action. You’ll also partner on key organizational priorities, providing project management, prioritization, and communication support to help both executives operate as effectively as possible. The strongest candidates combine exceptional organization with sound judgment, curiosity, and the ability to quickly build context. You proactively identify blockers, find ways to increase efficiency, and build strong relationships across the company and with external stakeholders. You are also a natural connector who brings the right people together and helps create alignment across teams. Experience supporting leaders in engineering, product, research, academia, or other technical environments is especially valuable. ## What You Will Do - Own complex calendar management for the COO and CTO, using strong judgment to prioritize competing demands and protect time for the highest-impact work. - Coordinate domestic and international travel, expenses, meetings, and logistics with a high degree of accuracy and anticipation. - Build context around executive priorities so you can proactively identify conflicts, prepare materials, surface decisions, and drive follow-through. - Support leadership meetings, planning sessions, offsites, action tracking, and cross-functional initiatives. - Oversee select projects from conception through completion, ensuring the right context reaches relevant stakeholders and commitments stay on track. - Prepare the COO and CTO for important internal and external meetings, including agendas, briefing materials, and follow-up actions. - Act as a connector across the organization, proactively bringing the right people together, strengthening relationships, and creating opportunities for alignment and collaboration. - Help manage key external relationships with customers, partners, candidates, advisors, academics, and other stakeholders as needed. - Partner with other Executive Assistants to coordinate priorities and optimize schedules and operating rhythms across the leadership team. - Identify opportunities to improve and standardize executive-office processes as Gecko scales. - Provide in-person support for important internal and external meetings and events, and occasionally manage event logistics end to end. - Handle sensitive and confidential information with excellent judgment and discretion. - Work flexibly when business needs require early mornings or evenings and travel up to 20% of the time. ## About You Required Skills (If Applicable) - 5+ years of executive support experience, including experience supporting VP-, C-suite-, founder-, or similarly senior leaders in a fast-paced organization. - Demonstrated ability to operate as a trusted partner to senior executives. - Exceptional judgment and discretion, particularly when handling confidential information and sensitive executive matters. - Proven ability to anticipate needs, prioritize independently, and make sound decisions without constant direction. - Experience managing complex calendars, travel, executive meetings, and competing priorities in a fast-moving environment. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the professionalism and executive presence to work effectively with senior internal and external stakeholders. - Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong project management and follow-through skills. - Resourceful, proactive, and comfortable operating through ambiguity and changing priorities. - A natural connector who builds trust across teams, brings people together, and helps create a strong sense of community around the leaders and teams you support. - Ability and willingness to work onsite in Gecko’s Pittsburgh office. ## Preferred Skills (If Applicable) - Experience supporting executives or senior leaders in engineering, robotics, hardware, software, product, research, or another highly technical environment. - Experience supporting leaders in academic, research, engineering, or other highly technical environments. - Experience in a startup, scale-up, or other high-growth organization. - Experience supporting more than one senior executive at the same time. - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience. ## 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 - [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 - [Testing & Robotics Technician](https://feeny.ai/job/testing-robotics-technician-gecko-robotics-pittsburgh-fkwat2rsrjtr) — Pittsburgh, PA