Senior Data Analyst

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.

As our Senior Data Analyst, you’ll sit at the heart of the business, turning complex commercial data into clear direction. You’ll own and evolve the metrics that actually drive decisions such as CAC, LTV, gross margin and unit economics, partnering closely with Growth, Commercial and Finance to sharpen performance and shape strategy. This is more than reporting. It’s about proactively spotting revenue opportunities, improving ROI, strengthening forecasting and bringing board-ready insights to the table, all built on clean, trusted data. If you enjoy connecting the dots between numbers and real commercial impact, this role is for you.

What you will do:

Commercial & Financial Analysis

• Own and evolve key commercial metrics including Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC), Customer Lifetime Value (LTV), Gross Margin (GM) and unit economics to support data-informed decision-making across Growth, Commercial and Finance teams.
• Deliver proactive insights that identify opportunities for revenue growth, cost optimisation and improved marketing ROI.
• Act as a strategic analytical partner to Finance and Commercial teams, supporting commercial reporting, margin analysis and business planning with clean, reliable data inputs.
• Support forecasting and planning cycles with robust, data-driven analysis.
• Contribute to investor reporting and board-level commercial metrics.
  

Special Projects & Reporting

• Develop and embed commercial metrics frameworks (e.g. metrics trees) into team rituals and decision-making processes.
• Build, maintain and enhance dashboards and automated reporting with a focus on usability, ensuring stakeholders can self-serve the metrics that matter.
• Manage ad-hoc analytical projects across the business, translating ambiguous questions into clear, actionable outputs.
• Conduct deep-dive analysis to diagnose complex commercial questions and surface root causes.

Data Modelling & Quality

• Work closely with the Engineering team and Analytics Engineers to manage data capture, transformation and storage for enhanced usability.
• Contribute to dbt data modelling efforts, structuring raw data into clean, well-documented models that serve analytics and reporting use cases.
• Solve data integrity and validity constraints to provide clean and normalised datasets.
  

Enablement & Collaboration

• Work closely with key stakeholders across Growth, Commercial and Finance to influence decisions and surface business-critical insights early.
• Help define and improve how the Data & Analytics function collaborates with Finance and Commercial teams, including establishing processes, governance and ways of working.
• Foster deeper data enablement throughout the Lyka team, building confidence and capability in data-informed decision-making.
• Contribute to shared practices and standards across the Data & Analytics function.

Requirements

What you will do:

• Experience in or exposure to finance, commercial or unit economics analysis.
• Experience in a Data Analyst or similarly analytical, data-intensive role.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and apply business context to data analysis, particularly around commercial metrics (CAC, LTV, retention, margin, funnel performance).
• Strong SQL skills (e.g. window functions, partitioning and CTEs).
• Solid grasp of relational databases, data processing and data cleansing techniques.
• Proficiency in data visualisation tools (e.g. Omni, Looker, Sigma, Tableau or similar).
• Experience with dbt or similar transformation tooling.
• Strong ability to work autonomously in ambiguous environments, filtering through noise to prioritise what matters.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across teams and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work.

Benefits

• 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 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.