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Lyka is an Australian founded pet wellness company that’s shaking up an outdated industry and paving the way for happier, healthier pets. Sadly, statistics have shown us that approximately eighty percent of pets are suffering from dental disease, with one in every three being diagnosed with cancer, and forty-one percent overweight. As humans we are acutely aware of the positive impact fresh wholefoods can have on our health and wellbeing, however the same hasn’t always been said for our furry friends. We're on a mission to change 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.

Today, we are proud to share we’ve served and fed over 10 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 take Lyka into new markets.

Currently, we have a team of 140 pet-obsessed people on our team who share our vision. 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 $30M in funding from our venture fund investments and pet industry insiders, who believe in our mission and ability to drive change in an outdated industry, providing nutrition that nourishes puppers from the inside out.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 your people.

**The Role**
**You will sit within our Growth team, working collaboratively with our Product Manager, Engineers and fellow Designers to create and deliver our end-to-end digital and sometimes physical experience.

**Specifically, you will be responsible for**:

- Driving a deep understanding of the user through customer research, collating insights and translating them to improve user experience
- Understanding & synthesising UX problems and solving them through simple and streamlined design solutions
- Conceptualising solutions and prototyping ideas. Conducting user research & testing to validate designs, before translating wireframes into hi-fidelity designs
- Working closely with our stellar engineering team throughout the design process, including building out the finer details of interactions and testing the build of the designs
- Working on design projects that will include optimisation of existing assets - desktop and mobile websites, but also greenfield design for new website pages, additional websites, web apps and native mobile apps

**Requirements**:

- 3+ years of experience in UX, UI or digital product design
- Experience working closely with technology teams to ensure your designs are implemented and executed to the full and are absolutely pixel perfect
- Incredible attention to detail and consistency when it comes to designs
- Natural problem solver and thrives on creating customer solutions through the power of beautiful, human-centred design
- Comfortable with all the usual design tools. We use Figma, but there might be times where you’ll need to use other design tools like Adobe, Sketch etc...
- Excellent communication skills and able to deliver high quality work at pace
- Positive, can-do attitude and thrives on being part of a small, incredibly focussed team
- Comfortable with changing priorities and direction as the business requires and evolves. Our growth means there are constantly new things to work on every day. As such it’s likely that you’ll often be working across the board on new and exciting projects.
- Finally, you must love dogs

**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 L&D budget for you to continue your personal development.
- Work for a sustainability focused company - we care about the health of our dogs & our planet. Not only are we the only Australian carbon-negative pet food company, but we’re also working on offsetting all our staff's plastic use & carbon emissions, too
- Be part of a diverse top talent team, coming from widely different backgrounds and geographies
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for primary carers and 6 weeks for secondary carers, alongside 2 weeks of miscarriage leave in the first twenty weeks. We also offer 18 paid weeks to both primary & secondary carers if you have been at Lyka for over two years.
- Wellbeing assistance & tools to take care of your mental & physical wellbeing so you can do your best work.
- Flexible working: work from where you get