Product Designer

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