Brand Designer

About Lyka:

Lyka was founded in 2018 by Anna Podolsky, inspired by her dog, Lyka, who was suffering from chronic health issues despite being on "premium" kibble. Together with Gabriel Guedes (COO) and Dr. Matthew Muir (Integrative Veterinarian), they built Lyka from the ground up with one core belief: better food can radically improve a pet's healthspan and quality of life.

Lyka's meals are vet-formulated and gently cooked from real food ingredients. Delivered via a flexible subscription model, Lyka meals have driven remarkable improvements for tens of thousands of customers, supporting gut health, reducing intolerances, improving energy and mobility, and even promoting hair growth.

What began as home-cooked meals has since scaled into one of Australia's fastest-growing consumer companies, a vertically integrated, tech-enabled brand that is transforming pet health nationwide.

Lyka now operates from two offices, Sydney (HQ) and Melbourne, with three state-of-the-art food production facilities (two in Sydney, one in Melbourne) and a growing national footprint.

At Lyka, we're not just selling pet food—we're pioneering a new standard of wellness for pets. With strong product-market fit, deep customer love, and a track record of rapid growth, we're now entering our most ambitious chapter yet: building a generational brand and category-defining business with global impact.

The Role

We're looking for a brand-obsessed, creative, and highly motivated Brand Designer to join our in-house marketing team at Lyka HQ in Alexandria. You'll work side-by-side with our Senior Designers and the wider creative crew to craft thoughtful, elevated designs that bring our brand to life, balancing storytelling with performance and impact.

This is a hands-on role in a fast-moving, collaborative team that loves creating beautiful work with purpose. One day you might be dreaming up scroll-stopping social ads, the next you're refining packaging concepts or designing for a new product launch. You'll take projects from rough idea to polished delivery, helping shape how Lyka shows up in the world as our brand continues to grow.

We're after someone confident in their craft, comfortable wearing a few creative hats, and energised by collaboration. You'll love solving design challenges, experimenting with ideas, and bringing a sharp eye for detail to everything you touch. Most of all, you'll connect with Lyka's mission and have a genuine love for dogs, wellness, and design that makes a difference.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll create bold, high-quality assets across digital, print, web, packaging, and social. You'll play a key role in evolving Lyka's visual identity and ensuring brand consistency across every touchpoint, from campaign concepts and product launches to internal projects. Working closely with marketing, product, and people teams, you'll translate briefs into compelling, on-brand designs that engage and inspire.

Alongside your design work, you'll help refine and maintain our brand guidelines and design systems, ensuring we're always raising the bar creatively. You'll manage multiple projects with ease, balancing creativity with deadlines and clear communication. And as part of a tight-knit creative team, you'll contribute ideas, collaborate in brainstorms, and help push the brand forward across every channel, including digital experiences with our product team.

What You'll Bring

You'll have around four or more years of design experience under your belt, ideally in FMCG, lifestyle, retail, or a creative agency environment, paired with a qualification in design, visual communication, or a related field. You're confident taking ideas from concept to execution, with strong design and art direction skills and a solid grasp of how to connect creativity with strategy.

You're fluent in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, and you've got a sharp eye for detail, craft, and cultural relevance. You take pride in consistency, care about every pixel, and can spot when something feels off (and know exactly how to fix it). You love owning projects, collaborating with others, and bringing a positive, proactive approach to feedback and teamwork. Above all, you're passionate about brand building, storytelling, and exploring new creative ideas that move the needle.

Your Portfolio

We're looking for a portfolio that shows your creative thinking and attention to craft, work that not only looks great but feels intentional. Show us how you've built or evolved brand identities and brought them to life across different touchpoints, from digital and social to print and packaging. We also want to see how you've worked within established brand systems while still finding ways to push boundaries and keep things fresh.

• Work in a fast-growing start-up, experiencing what goes on 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 expand. 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 and our planet. We're proud to be Australia's only carbon-negative and plastic-negative pet wellness company, and we're always looking at ways for us to improve our 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 and 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.