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Hello, I’m Winston. I’m the Co-Founder and Head of Product Design & Engineering at Sleeping Duck and I’m looking for someone who is extremely excited and passionate about driving and motivating a team to complete their best work. This role will assist me in managing our Product Design and Research and Development projects.

Our mission is to improve lives by using scientific and customer insights to address the challenges we face in achieving the best possible nights sleep. We design and engineer products and services that deliver meaningful, positive impact towards this goal. This requires us to invest deeply in understanding the factors that influence sleep quality and comfort throughout the night as well as how our interventions directly affect these factors.

In this role you need to be able to:

- Take the time to understand what the leaders of the business are trying to achieve and assist in distilling this into explicit projects and goals.
- Motivate and excite the teams to work on the project. Ensure clear communication to all involved about where we are with projects, what needs to be done and what we need help with.
- Have a can do attitude and always ask how you can support and service the team

A lot of the time, particularly when we are in the inception of a new product, requirements will change quickly. We may even for a while be figuring out what question to ask or what problem we need to solve. We might want a very specific thing which is hard to find. We may only want to make a small quantity of items when suppliers want to make 10s of thousands. There are multiple projects on the go.



What I need is someone who can stick through all of this, stay positive, find solutions, inspire the team and keep the momentum.

You’ll thrive in this role if you keep an open mind and believe what we are doing is important and will improve our customers' lives. If you are a person who loves working on hard problems and you love working with and inspiring people, this job is for you.

About Sleeping Duck

Sleeping Duck is a collective of engineers, designers, customer advocates, and medical professionals united by a shared mission: to create meaningful improvements in the quality of our customers’ lives. We focus on optimising sleep, because better sleep means more energy, better focus, and a greater capacity to thrive each day.

We began by challenging the traditional mattress industry, reimagining how mattresses and bed frames are designed, engineered, and purchased. Today, we’re expanding into recent frontiers of sleep science, exploring how elements like temperature regulation, sensors, and lighting can make the sleep experience more restorative, comfortable, and uninterrupted.

One of our most exciting innovations is the Z10 Body Fit System, engineered in collaboration with a neurosurgeon and leading physiotherapists. Developed to support patients experiencing chronic pain and those undergoing surgery,



the Z10 is delivering exceptional results, and is currently available exclusively through physiotherapists. Projects like this are what drive us: complex problems, human-centred design, and life-changing outcomes.

Our customers consistently tell us they love what we do, and their thousands of reviews on ProductReview speak for themselves. Ultimately, that’s what fuels us: helping people get their best night’s sleep, and creating experiences that truly exceed expectations.

We currently operate in Australia and the USA and will continue to grow into international markets.

Role in practice

You’ll be working directly with me and my Product Design team. We are a small team, consisting of product designers, engineers, product managers and external consultants.

In this role you will:

- Work with me to develop projects and their requirements. Projects areas will include R&D;, Sourcing, Product Design, Product Engineering, Product/ Material Testing, and Production Implementation.
- As we brainstorm, research and understand more about the projects, our ambitions will shift, be in step with me to understand this very clearly and adjust the project parameters accordingly.
- Breakdown project into understandable milestones/subgoals to ensure teams are working on the right goals at the right time. This is especially important when there are multiple simultaneous projects
- Determine the project resourcing and determine who is responsible for the tasks at hand.
- Work closely with all members of the project team to ensure they have what they need to complete their work.
- Build team morale through stro

📌 Product Design (Melbourne)
🏢 Sleeping Duck
📍 Melbourne