About Hilo by Aktiia
High blood pressure is the world’s most common disease, causing 18M deaths each year. At Hilo by Aktiia, our vision is a world where no lives are lost or damaged from the effects of high blood pressure. Our mission is to make this a reality by developing tech to help people control their blood pressure.
We are a venture-backed scale-up company, having raised over $96M from investors in Europe and the United States. Our technology - rooted in 18 years of research at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) - is the world’s only medically accurate, continuous blood pressure monitor that is cuffless in daily life in the consumer space. Validated through extensive clinical trials and CE Marked as a Class IIa medical device, our solution is now available in 12 countries. We are a hybrid/remote-first company, with Headquarters in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, united by our passion for impact and innovation.
Role Overview
We are looking for a experienced Product Designer to shape how users experience Hilo’s products end to end. This role is responsible for designing intuitive, elegant, and high-quality product experiences across our digital ecosystem, ensuring that form and function are seamlessly integrated.
You will play a key role in building and evolving our design system, crafting thoughtful user experiences, and delivering polished, development-ready designs. Working closely with product managers, engineers, and design leadership, you will translate complex requirements into simple, effective, and visually refined solutions.
This role requires strong visual craft, deep systems thinking, and the ability to move confidently from early concepts to final execution.
Core Responsibilities
Product Design & User Experience
- Design end-to-end product experiences, from early concepts and exploration through to polished, dev-ready delivery
- Translate user needs and product requirements into intuitive, elegant, and functional solutions
- Balance strong UX thinking with exceptional visual design to create experiences that are both beautiful and usable
Design Systems & Craft
- Build, own, and evolve Hilo’s design system to ensure consistency, scalability, and quality across products
- Create and maintain robust component libraries and design patterns
- Apply exceptional attention to detail across typography, colour, layout, and interaction design
Motion & Interaction Design
- Bring interfaces to life through purposeful, refined motion design
- Use animation to enhance usability, communicate state changes, and elevate the overall product experience
Collaboration & Delivery
- Work closely with product managers and engineers to deliver high-quality, feasible solutions
- Provide clear, well-structured design handoffs with all necessary specifications and context
- Collaborate effectively across distributed teams, ensuring strong communication and alignment
Continuous Improvement
- Iterate on designs based on feedback, data, and evolving product needs
- Contribute to improving design processes, tools, and workflows
- Stay up to date with trends in product design, interaction, and emerging technologies, including AI
Requirements
Experience
- 4–8 years of experience in product design, UX/UI design, or related roles
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality digital product experiences end to end
- Experience working with design systems at scale, including building and maintaining them
- Experience designing for complex products, ideally in health tech, wearables, or hardware-connected apps (a plus)
Skills
- Exceptional visual design skills with a strong eye for detail
- Strong UX thinking and problem-solving ability
- Proficiency in Figma, including component architecture, auto-layout, and developer handoff workflows
- Comfortable with motion design and interaction design principles
- Strong understanding of engineering needs and constraints, with the ability to deliver dev-ready designs
- Experience with localisation workflows and tools such as Phrase or similar
- Familiarity with AI tools as part of the design process to enhance speed and quality
- Fluent, professional English (written and spoken)
Mindset
- Collaborative, proactive, and comfortable working in distributed teams
- Strong communicator who keeps stakeholders aligned and informed
- Able to take ownership while also building on and evolving existing work thoughtfully
- High attention to detail with a strong sense of quality and craft
- Curious and continuously looking to improve tools, processes, and outcomes
What success looks like
- Hilo’s product experiences are intuitive, elegant, and consistently high-quality
- A scalable and well-structured design system supports product development efficiently
- Designs are delivered with clarity and precision, enabling smooth implementation by engineering teams
- Product interfaces effectively balance usability, functionality, and visual excellence
- Motion and interaction design enhance the overall user experience in meaningful ways
- Design quality and consistency improve as the product ecosystem grows
What Makes You A Great Fit
At Hilo by Aktiia, our values guide everything we do
Move the Needle
- You focus on what truly drives impact for our customers and company
- You use clarity and judgement to prioritise what matters most
- You push for bold, thoughtful work and hold a high bar for quality and outcomes
Move Fast, Learn, Refine
- You work with urgency and intention, balancing speed with craft
- You iterate, refine, and continuously raise the standard of what great looks like
- You take ownership and constantly look for better ways to improve the work
Team First
- You build strong relationships through trust and openness
- You give clear, honest feedback and value strong collaboration
- You contribute to a culture where great work and great teamwork go hand in hand
Benefits
Why Join Us?
- Hilo by Aktiia is becoming one of the most important med-tech companies, and you can be part of this exciting story.
- Work on a mission that matters: transforming cardiovascular health at global scale.
- Be part of a high-impact, fast-growing, and venture-backed scale-up company.
- Collaborate with a diverse, passionate, and talented team.
- Competitive compensation and other benefits (depending on location).