Senior Product Designer

Who are we?

Lyka is an Australian founded pet wellness company that’s shaking up an outdated industry and paving the way for happier, healthier pets. Despite medical advancements, animal lifespans are on the decline. Today, the average pet only reaches 37% of their full potential lifespan and statistics have shown us that many suffer from dental disease, cancer, and obesity. Simply put, the status quo is not enough.

As humans, we’ve experienced firsthand the positive impact fresh wholefoods can have on our health and wellbeing, and we believe our furry friends deserve the same. We're on a mission to do just that, starting with nutritionally balanced, wholefood meals delivered direct to doors around Australia. As the world’s most sustainable pet wellness company, we’re putting pets and our planet first - one bowl at a time.

Today, we are proud to share we’ve served 50 million meals to puppers and their parents across Australia, and this is just the beginning. Our vision is to create multiple nutritional products, adding disease prevention meals and supplements, and expand into new markets.

Currently, we have a team of 250+ pet-obsessed people and we're continuing to grow (yes, looking at you!). These carefully selected people are dedicated to building the next generation of technology and products to help empower pet parents to take control over their pet’s wellbeing.

To date, we have raised over $60M in funding from venture capital investors and pet industry insiders, who believe in our mission and ability to drive change in a stagnant industry, providing nutrition that nourishes puppers from the inside out.

Are you ready to shake things up and give pets the life they deserve? Come join our pack!

Our Mission

The time we share with our pets is being cut short. Despite medical advancements, they’re getting sicker earlier. They’re dying prematurely. The industry has it backwards - prioritising treating symptoms instead of addressing the root cause. That’s where we come in.

At Lyka, we take a preventative, holistic and personalised approach to pet care. We look at the full picture, factoring in the diet, lifestyle and environment of each individual animal.

We don’t stop at symptoms, instead we dig for the root cause. We create nutrition plans unique to each pet, because it’s not just about living longer, but living well too.

Our mission is to increase the lifespan of dogs and cats.

The Opportunity

We're hiring for a Senior Product Designer in our evolving Product team . In this role, you'll work on initiatives and experiments spanning the end-to-end experience. We need someone who can spot real customer problems, find and design solutions, and test them to see what works.

This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports. You'll work with a talented team to help customers get the most out of what we offer, improve our products, and decide what to work on next.

You'll partner with product, engineering, and data teams to test ideas and learn fast. This helps us make better decisions about what we bring to market. You’ll get to investigate and work on large initiatives that affect the core product experience, as well as smaller, fast-paced experiments to see value delivered to the customer quickly.

Insights into how customers interact with your experiences will help us understand where our strength and weaknesses lie and where we might need to focus next as we work to become the leading choice for pet nutrition in Australia and beyond.

What you'll do

• Proactively identify opportunities, set direction based on customer insights, and drive work forward with minimal oversight.
• Lead end-to-end design for growth initiatives, from problem discovery to impactful solutions.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and cross-functional partners to move ideas quickly from concept to launch.
• Use research, experimentation, and real data to validate ideas and accelerate learning.
• Uphold design excellence through high-quality visuals, prototypes, and cohesive user experiences.
• Mentor teammates and foster a culture of craft, speed, and shared ownership.
• You’ve worked in end-to-end product environments and shipped things that made a real impact.
• You’re comfortable operating in ambiguity, being able to set a path forward that balances desirability and speed to learnings.
• You know how to bring focus, structure, and clarity to a fast-moving team from a customer perspective.
• You collaborate instinctively, especially across product, engineering and data.
• You work lean, research and test fast, and use learnings to drive decisions.
• You care deeply about solving real customer problems in a way that sticks.
• You have a strong understanding of design best practices, user psychology and needs.
• You have a strong portfolio demonstrating your ability to solve complex problems, iterate based on insights and showcasing a range of design projects.
• Work in a fast-growing start-up, experiencing what goes behind the scenes to sustain hyper-growth for a start-up with a physical product!
• Growth and Development - Lyka is growing extremely quickly, which means you will have the opportunity to experience different challenges every day and progressively acquire more responsibilities as our facility and team expands. We provide an annual budget for you to continue your personal development.
• Work for a sustainability focused company - we care about the health of our pets and our planet. We’re proud to be Australia’s only carbon-negative and plastic-negative pet company and we’re always looking at ways for us improve sustainability practices.
• Be part of a diverse top talent team, coming from widely different backgrounds and geographies.
• Up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave top-up.
• Wellbeing assistance and tools to take care of your mental and physical wellbeing so you can do your best work.
• Pupper parent support to care for your furry friends - flexible arrangements for new pets, pet-friendly offices, discounts, and financial allowance for dog training & care to help them live their best life.

We are committed to building inclusive and diverse teams

Lyka is an equal opportunity employer devoted to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. We celebrate diversity, are devoted to creating an inclusive environment for all staff and encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.