About this role
Role Overview
- 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.
Requirements
- You’ve worked in high-growth 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.
Benefits
- 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.