Product Designer, Isla
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Empowering clinicians to streamline healthcare delivery
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Empowering clinicians to streamline healthcare delivery
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity options
21-100 employees
Company mission
To lead the global shift to digital pathway platforms, redefining how healthcare is delivered through intelligent pathways that optimise care, empower clinicians, and improve patient outcomes at scale.
Role
Who you are
- Strong end-to-end product design skills - from discovery, journey mapping and wireframing through to polished UI and implementation-ready designs
- Systems thinking - you consider the broader ecosystem your design decisions exist within, understanding how changes in one area can affect others across a complex, multi-user product
- Excellent product and UX instincts - able to simplify complex workflows, identify user problems, and design thoughtful, intuitive experiences grounded in evidence and user insight
- A highly collaborative approach - comfortable working closely with Product and Engineering to shape solutions together, not just execute requirements
- Experience contributing to design systems, with an appreciation for scalability, consistency, and strong collaboration between design and engineering
- Confidence using both qualitative and quantitative data to inform decisions and evaluate outcomes
- Curiosity about AI and emerging tooling - you actively explore new tools and think critically about how they can improve design workflows and product experiences
- Strong instincts for improving ways of working - contributing positively to discovery, critique, prioritisation, and collaboration practices within fast-moving product teams
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and proactively identifying opportunities to improve UX quality
- Expertise in accessibility and inclusive design - you design confidently for users with a wide range of needs, have a thorough command of WCAG guidelines and accessibility best practices, and treat inclusive design as a core part of creating safe, usable clinical products
- Experience in designing digital products in regulated or clinical environments is a bonus, but we're open to candidates from any industry - we'd love to hear from designers with varied backgrounds who can bring new ways of thinking to the problems we're solving
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a mid-level Product Designer to help shape the next stage of Isla’s product experience as we continue to grow
- This is a hands-on individual contributor role for someone who enjoys solving complex product problems and collaborating deeply with cross-functional teams
- Working with our existing designer and partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and our clinical safety officer, you’ll play a key role in improving UX and UI across the platform
- You'll be the voice of the user across Isla and will working directly with engineering to scope and build exciting new features, be helping simplify complex workflows, and ensure we build thoughtful, user-centred experiences in a highly regulated environment
- You’ll help to create the conditions for great design to happen: advocating for strong design-led thinking, improving design practices, and ensuring design remains an enabler rather than a bottleneck as we scale
- Design intuitive product experiences - you will design complex clinical and patient-facing experiences end-to-end, from flows and wireframes through to polished UI and implementation-ready designs
- Be the voice of the user - ensure user needs are represented throughout the product development process, from early discovery and problem definition through to delivery and iteration
- Improve UX quality across the platform - proactively identify friction, inconsistencies and opportunities to simplify workflows and improve the overall user experience
- Make research stick - building on our existing research practice to make it more structured, consistent, and impactful. You'll help ensure insights are visible, accessible, and actively shaping product decisions, including establishing repeatable usability testing processes to ensure it's never deprioritised or missed - both critical requirements for medical device compliance and clinical safety
- Bring data into the design process - champion the use of quantitative and qualitative data together, helping the team make evidence-led decisions
- Champion accessible and inclusive design -design experiences that work for users with a wide range of abilities and access needs, including visual, motor, cognitive and literacy impairments. Apply accessibility best practices and WCAG principles throughout the design process, contributing to inclusive patterns and standards within the design system
- Contribute to the evolution of our design system - keep it healthy, consistent, and evolving alongside the product, with an eye on AI-readiness and long-term scalability. You’ll contribute to improving consistency and collaboration between design and engineering as the system evolves
- Influence our approach to AI - explore and experiment with AI tools within the design workflow, helping identify practical ways they can improve speed, quality and collaboration
Our take
Isla wants to empower healthcare professionals by allowing them to use visual data—photos and videos of patients—by securely recording this data to a medical professional's smartphone.
The ambitious startup has partnered with the Central London Community Healthcare Trust and the NHS, successfully supporting various NHS trusts on their digitisation journey. Isla will focus on leveraging visual data to improve end-of-life care and dermatology services. Additionally, the company has added an Impact page to its website, showcasing evidence of Isla's benefits.
Now that a case can be made for visual health data flows being helpful, the company's platform could see even wider adoption. Once sufficiently high-quality data sets have been collected, Isla can use the visual data, provided with patient consent, to inform medical practice more generally.
The next few years at Isla should be interesting as the company is looking to replicate the operation of its product across several hospitals and healthcare facilities. Isla's end game is to be fully integrated into all incumbent Patient Administration Systems to make the platform seamless for clinicians.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company benefits
- 🏡 Work from home or at our office in Moorgate 🏢
- 🏖️ 25 days annual leave (on top of bank holidays)
- 🎂 Take your birthday off
- 🎄 Take an important holiday off
- 🕜 Flexible working times
- 🧘♀️ A monthly wellbeing bonus (£50 per month to spend on gym membership or wellbeing activities) Or private medical
- 🍜 £75 every quarter to treat friend/family to a meal
- 📈 Equity options available
- 📚 Learning budget
- 🎉 Enhanced parental leave (12 weeks fully paid leave for primary care givers and 4 weeks fully paid leave for secondary care givers on top of the statutory leave)
- ❤️🩹 Enhanced health leave
- 💗 Delivering social impact through improved patient healthcare
- 💡 Working at a well funded and rapidly growing start up, solving a global problem in a new way
- 🌍 Work abroad for up to 90 days a year
- 🐾 Dog friendly office
Company values
- Look back proudly - We deliver excellence & act with integrity, every time
- Race forward - The need for change in healthcare delivery is urgent. We challenge ourselves to set a fast pace in all that we do and encourage ambition within our team and with our customers
- Laugh along the way - We recognise the impact that we are having in the world, and enjoy the process of making that happen, however tough that is
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
James Jurkiewicz
(Co-Founder & CTO)Oxford Engineering alum with healthcare consulting experience at Newton Europe and start-up experience at Onfido.
Peter Hansell
(Co-Founder)Worked in healthcare consulting as a Senior Consultant at Newton Europe and then at DrDoctor.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Isla
- At Isla, we believe that embracing diverse perspectives leads to innovation, creativity, and better business outcomes.
- We know that diverse teams work better. It's simple: when people from a wide range of backgrounds come together, they bring unique ideas, insights and problem-solving approaches. Diversity challenges conventional thinking, encourages collaboration, and fuels innovation. This diversity of thought creates a dynamic environment where ideas flourish, and we can deliver an exceptional product to our users.
- We are committed to placing DE&I at the forefront of our hiring and operational thinking. We actively seek out individuals from all walks of life, irrespective of their gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or abilities. We believe that diversity should not only be celebrated but embraced.
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