What are the responsibilities and job description for the People Program Specialist position at Gecko Robotics?
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
As a People Programs Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in designing, iterating on and implementing people programs that prioritize the Gecko employee experience and continually evolve alongside Gecko’s organization. You will focus on an effective onboarding experience for new hires as Gecko scales, collaborate with business leaders on various inclusivity programs, manage employee wellness and perks programs and contribute to the development of employee recognition and growth programs. Above all else, you are eager to diagnose and recommend people programs needed now and in the future to enable Geckos to achieve our mission.
You are someone who thrives on truly understanding the organizational needs around you to both create zero to one programs and evolve existing ones. By applying strong communication, program management, creative thinking and relationship building skills, you’re able to bring best practices across the employee lifecycle and tailor them for Gecko’s needs. You understand and appreciate that the onboarding experience sets the tone and culture for Gecko and influences each Geckos’ longer term experience. Lastly, you are eager to creatively problem solve alongside business leaders and collaborate with cross functional partners to ensure programs are well received and have high impact.
What You Will Do
Onboarding Design and Management
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.
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
As a People Programs Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in designing, iterating on and implementing people programs that prioritize the Gecko employee experience and continually evolve alongside Gecko’s organization. You will focus on an effective onboarding experience for new hires as Gecko scales, collaborate with business leaders on various inclusivity programs, manage employee wellness and perks programs and contribute to the development of employee recognition and growth programs. Above all else, you are eager to diagnose and recommend people programs needed now and in the future to enable Geckos to achieve our mission.
You are someone who thrives on truly understanding the organizational needs around you to both create zero to one programs and evolve existing ones. By applying strong communication, program management, creative thinking and relationship building skills, you’re able to bring best practices across the employee lifecycle and tailor them for Gecko’s needs. You understand and appreciate that the onboarding experience sets the tone and culture for Gecko and influences each Geckos’ longer term experience. Lastly, you are eager to creatively problem solve alongside business leaders and collaborate with cross functional partners to ensure programs are well received and have high impact.
What You Will Do
Onboarding Design and Management
- Take a “fresh set of eyes” to rethink Gecko’s company wide onboarding program (“Robot Camp”), ensuring all content and presentation aligns with company goals, culture, and values.
- Organize and host the live “Robot Camp” on a recurring basis to ensure smooth and high impact new hire experience.
- Partner with business leads to develop department specific and role based onboarding plans, with the goal of a seamless transition onto each new hire’s team.
- Own end-to-end onboarding communications and processes by partnering across Gecko’s internal teams. This includes:
- Collaborate with the recruiting team for a seamless onboarding experience; addressing each new Gecko’s individual needs such as visas processes, travel considerations and start date changes.
- Work with people systems to build out HRIS workflows for what happens leading up to and immediately following Day 1; including initiating first contact through the offer letter delivery.
- Partner with IT to ensure that new Geckos have the applicable system access and hardware for Day 1.
- Identify opportunities for inclusivity programs at Gecko and development and execute on a program plan.
- Facilitate and iterate on the structure for ERGs to independently grow and thrive, and work with ERG leaders to enhance ERG events.
- Enhance wellness and perks program design and management to increase employee engagement, understanding what will truly resonate with Geckos.
- Lead vendor management for programs including Modern Health, UberEats, UberOne, ClassPass, and local gym discounts.
- Create events and collateral to raise awareness and boost wellness program engagement.
- Work alongside the people partner on career guide (rubric) development; partnering with the business to define competencies so all Geckos understand what it takes to meet the bar.
- Beyond compensation, design and implement creative ways to recognize the great work across Gecko’s diverse employee base that contributes to the value we add for customers.
- 4 years of experience on working on a scaling People team.
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills with a "Get Things Done" mentality.
- Excellent communication skills with a focus on customer service orientation.
- Programmatic thinker with cultural alignment and resourceful problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to innovate, automate processes, and adapt to a fast-paced environment.
- Strong documentation skills and experience with HR management systems.
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher.
- Experience building and scaling onboarding programs.
- Proficient in Google Suite, Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), and Slack.
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.
