Lead Product Designer (m/f/d)
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Job description
Lead Product Designer at Hilo by Aktiia, a remote-first med-tech scale-up building a cuffless blood pressure monitor. The role sets the design direction and quality bar for the app, owns the design system and drives major product bets from idea to shipped result.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe
What you'll do
- Set the design direction and quality bar across the app, from new features to health insights and early vision work
- Define the success measures for your work and own the business results
- Own the design system, built to work with AI tools, and keep it consistent through tokens and clear decisions
- Show instead of tell, with high-fidelity prototypes and motion built with AI tools and the design system
- Raise the bar for the team; support, coach and unblock other designers, and give clear feedback
- Challenge product and engineering with evidence, persuade stakeholders and make clear, documented decisions
- Work daily with product managers and design engineers
What we're looking for
- Proven design leadership, with a track record of consistently delivering strong business outcomes
- 2 to 3 shipped case studies that demonstrate high impact: the problem, your hypothesis, your decisions, the measured result
- Outstanding visual design craft: hierarchy, typography, motion and attention to detail
- High-fidelity prototypes and videos of your work, ideally built with AI tools such as Claude or Lovable
- Daily, practical use of AI tools and experience with AI-ready design systems
- Fluent Figma, including components, variables and tokens
- Strong product thinking: you work with data, hypotheses and measurements
- Ideally health, consumer, behavior change or regulated products
- A public portfolio website (required with your application)
- Applicants must already hold a valid visa or work permit for their country of residence
Nice to have
- Mobile apps, connected devices, simple prototypes in code
Your team
Design
You report directly to the Head of Design and work with product and engineering every day, together with the Lead UX Writer and a Senior Product Designer.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity program, and other benefits (depending on location)
- 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
How to get hired
- 1Recruiter screen (30 min)
- 2Portfolio interview with the Head of Design (60 min): visual craft, prototyping, AI fluency
- 3Product thinking and interaction design deep dive
- 4Cross-functional conversation with design engineers and product
- 5Final conversation with senior leadership (finalists)
Apply
About Aktiia SA
Building a world where no lives are lost to the effects of high blood pressure
Hilo by Aktiia is a venture-backed scale-up with $96M raised from investors in Europe and the US. Rooted in 18 years of research at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), its device is the world's only medically accurate, cuffless, continuous blood pressure monitor for daily use — clinically validated and CE Marked as a Class IIa medical device, now available in 12 countries. In July, it launched in the US. The company is remote-first and headquartered in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Mission
Build a world where no lives are lost to the effects of high blood pressure, with technology that helps people take control of their health.
Key facts
- Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Med-tech
- $96M raised from investors in Europe and the US
- Rooted in 18 years of research at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM)
- Device is the world's only medically accurate, cuffless, continuous blood pressure monitor for daily use
- Clinically validated and CE Marked as a Class IIa medical device
- Available in 12 countries
- Launched in the US in July
- Remote-first company
- Hilo is not able to provide visa sponsorship
What they value
- Move the Needle
- Move Fast, Learn, Refine
- Team First