Product Strategist | Middle East

Gecko Robotics; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialized robotics company in Abu Dhabi seeks an experienced Product Strategist to build and implement product strategies. This role requires operating closely with customers and engineering teams, solving complex problems, and navigating ambiguities. Ideal candidates possess 4-7 years of technical product management experience and a strong orientation towards data and user experiences. Join us to make a real-world impact on critical infrastructure.

Benefits

Competitive compensation packages

Company equity

401(k) matching

Flexible paid time off

Qualifications

• 4-7 years of experience in technical product management.
• Strong systems thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable in the field and with data.

Responsibilities

• Own problems not just features, solving high-leverage customer problems.
• Set strategy, crafting product theses for platform evolution.
• Champion user experience by incorporating UI/UX insights.

Skills

Technical product management

Systems thinking

Data analysis

User experience understanding

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 Overview

This is not your typical product manager role.

As a Product Strategist at Gecko, you won’t be handed a roadmap—you’ll be building it. You’ll operate at the frontier of customer need and product possibility: developing new solutions for high-stakes environments while shaping the direction of our core software platform, Cantilever.

We’re looking for strategic builders—technical product minds with a bias toward action and a deep sense of ownership. You’ll be embedded in the field with our customers and engineers, making bets, validating hypotheses, and helping Gecko scale from bespoke deployments to a robust, extensible platform.

This is a rare opportunity to shape product strategy from the ground up, working at the heart of one of the world’s most ambitious efforts to modernize critical infrastructure.

What You Will Do

• Own Problems, Not Just Features: Identify high-leverage customer problems and lead the charge to solve them—start to finish.
• Set Strategy, Not Just Priorities: Craft and test product theses that inform Gecko’s long-term platform evolution.
• Champion User Experience: Incorporate UI/UX insights into product direction to ensure solutions are not only technically sound but also intuitive and impactful for end users.
• Build What Scales: Deliver immediate value to customers while extracting insights that shape scalable, repeatable product solutions.
• Operate Close to the Field: Work alongside Forward Deployed Engineers to understand use cases in depth—and move quickly to unlock value.
• Bridge Product and Business: Translate technical solutions into outcomes that matter for customers and for Gecko’s mission.
• Navigate Ambiguity: Thrive in environments without a playbook. You’ll help write it.

About You

• 4-7 years of experience in technical product management, preferably in an enterprise software, B2B SaaS, or platform environment.
• Backgrounds in product strategy, consulting, engineering, or founder/operator roles tend to thrive in this position.
• Strong systems thinking—you can break down messy problems, spot the patterns, and architect elegant solutions.
• You’re comfortable in the field—on-site with users, in the weeds with engineers, or in the boardroom with stakeholders.
• Able to operate autonomously, make high-quality decisions with imperfect info, and adapt quickly as reality changes.
• Comfortable with data—whether it’s Excel, SQL, or something custom.
• Motivated by real-world impact and mission-driven work.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Background in infrastructure, energy, defense, or robotics.
• Experience launching 0→1 products or building within ambiguous, complex domains.
• An engineering background or the ability to write code—enough to engage deeply with technical teams and shape product direction with confidence
• Hands-on collaboration experience with designers or exposure to UI/UX research practices.

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 and wellness support, 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.