Staff Product Designer, DeFi

Mysten Labs, Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mysten Labs, Inc. is seeking a Staff Product Designer to set the experience strategy across the DeepBook financial stack and related first-party products for on-chain finance on Sui.

You will lead design from strategy through launch, build a team, and stay hands-on in critical flows to ensure clarity of complex financial concepts. You will partner with product and engineering to deliver scalable design systems, governance for risk and liquidity workflows, and collaborations with legal and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product design, with leadership ownership.
• Strong portfolio across data-dense financial products.
• Experience designing trading/fintech on-chain products.
• Fluency in DeFi concepts and onchain workflows.
• Ability to guide strategy and priorities with cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Set the design vision and priorities with leadership.
• Own end-to-end experience across DeepBook and first-party apps.
• Lead core journeys: onboarding, funding, market discovery, order entry, and more.
• Design for retail traders, professional users, institutions.
• Remain hands-on in high-priority work and prototyping.
• Build scalable design system and patterns for dense financial data.
• Establish a practical research program with interviews and analytics.
• Partner with engineering to understand protocol behavior and constraints.
• Collaborate with legal, security, marketing to launch responsibly.
• Define quality measures and tie work to activation and retention.

Skills

Product design leadership

Staff-level experience

DeFi knowledge

End-to-end design

Design systems

Research & prototyping

Job description

Mysten Labs believes that decentralized and open protocols are the bedrock of the internet of value. This is why at Mysten Labs, we are creating foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of decentralized protocols based on blockchain technologies.

Mysten Labs is looking for a Staff Product Designer to set the experience strategy for the DeepBook financial stack and the first-party products built around it, spanning spot trading, margin, prediction markets, liquidity, and the workflows that connect users and builders to onchain finance on Sui.This role requires strong product judgment, exceptional design craft, people leadership, and real fluency in financial markets and DeFi. You will work with product and engineering from strategy through launch, build a design team that can cover a growing product surface, and stay close enough to the work to lead critical product flows yourself.The right person knows how to make complex financial systems clear without removing the information users need to assess risk. You should be comfortable designing for retail and professional users, working through technical and regulatory constraints, and using research and product data to improve adoption, execution quality, retention, and trust.

What You Will Do

• Set the design vision, principles, and priorities in partnership with product, engineering, and business leadership.
• Own the end-to-end experience across DeepBook spot, margin, prediction products, liquidity workflows, and related first-party applications.
• Lead the design of core journeys including onboarding, funding, market discovery, order entry, transaction review and signing, portfolio and position management, collateral, liquidation risk, settlement, and recovery from failed states.
• Design for distinct audiences such as retail traders, experienced DeFi users, market makers, liquidity providers, institutions, and developers without creating a fragmented product experience.
• Remain hands-on in the highest-priority work by framing problems, developing concepts, prototyping, testing, and reviewing implementation quality.
• Build a scalable design system and shared interaction patterns for dense financial data, charts, tables, order entry, account states, alerts, and risk communication.
• Establish a practical research program using interviews, usability studies, product analytics, support feedback, and market observation.
• Partner with engineering to understand protocol behavior, transaction states, latency, data dependencies, security boundaries, and platform constraints.
• Work with legal, security, marketing, business development, and ecosystem teams to launch products responsibly and communicate financial concepts accurately.
• Define design and product quality measures, then connect the team's work to activation, conversion, trading success, retention, support burden, and user trust.

What You Will Have

• 10 or more years of product design experience, including meaningful experience leading, hiring, and developing designers in a fast-moving product organization.
• A portfolio that shows both exceptional individual craft and leadership impact across complex, data-dense products.
• Experience designing trading, investing, fintech, payments, crypto, marketplace, or other high-stakes products where users make consequential decisions.
• Fluency in DeFi and direct experience using onchain products. You can discuss swaps, order books, liquidity, routing, slippage, collateral, leverage, liquidation, settlement, smart-contract risk, and transaction signing.
• Strong product judgment and a record of shaping strategy, prioritization, and product decisions with product and engineering partners.
• Skill in interaction design, information architecture, visual design, prototyping, research, and systems thinking.
• Experience building design systems and operating practices that improve consistency and delivery across multiple products.
• Comfort working through ambiguity and making progress while product, technical, market, and legal inputs continue to change.

Nice to Have

• Experience leading design for an exchange, order book, derivatives or margin product, prediction market, wallet, aggregator, or institutional trading platform.
• Experience with both retail and professional trading experiences, including charts, market data, portfolio analytics, and execution workflows.
• Familiarity with Sui, Move, programmable transaction blocks, DeepBook, Slush, or object-based blockchain architectures.
• Experience designing products in legally complex or regulated financial categories.
• Prior experience as a founder, design executive, principal designer, trader, DeFi power user, or ecosystem operator.

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, which may include verification of employment history, education credentials, criminal history, and other relevant information.

Our team is remote first and we are hiring across the world. Here at Mysten Labs, you’ll be joining a world-class team with tremendous growth potential as we bring the next billion users to web3. We raised a $300M Series B round from top Silicon Valley led venture funds like Jump Crypto, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Binance Labs, Redpoint, Lightspeed, Coinbase Ventures, Electric Capital, Standard Crypto, NFX, Slow Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Samsung Next, Lux Capital, among other investment firms and strategic partners. Come join us and build the future of web3!