Gaël Hillion

Gaël Hillion/ga.ɛl i.li.ɔ̃/

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I’m Gaël, a Product Designer at Adobe based in Paris.

I lead high-complexity zero-to-one projects, driving team alignment and bringing clarity at speed. I thrive at facilitation, cross-functional collaboration, storytelling, and turning ambiguity into direction.

Sr. Product Designer at Adobe

Paris, April 2025 – Now

Building agentic workflow capabilities that let teams automate 3D pipelines end-to-end, turning manual, multi-step work across the Adobe Substance ecosystem into a single automated flow.

Sr. Product Designer at WhatsApp

Paris, March 2023 – April 2025

Redesigned WhatsApp's ad creation flow to give first time advertisers confidence, growing ad creation by 24% and building the foundation for WhatsApp's future advertising experience.

Sr. Product Designer at Meta

London, June 2021 – March 2023

Designed the first Meta-branded App Install Sheet and driving cost per install as low as 0.75x Google's, laying the groundwork for Meta's vision to become its own app distribution ecosystem.

Product Designer at Meta

London, April 2019 – June 2021

Built tools for app developers, such as Audience Network and Ads Manager, so they could better monetize their apps and acquire new users.

Product Designer at Shopify

Ottawa, May 2018 – August 2018

Focused on making payment processing an after thought for merchants, allowing them to focus on their core business instead.

Product Designer at Star

Munich, August 2016 – January 2017

Created digital and innovative solutions for companies such as Zeiss, NIO, Ford and Renault.