Mysten Labs
Staff Product Designer, DeFi
USA (Remote) · Staff+ · Contract
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About the role
- Our work spans on-chain finance and the emerging agent economy.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Define design and product quality measures, then connect the team's work to activation, conversion, trading success, retention, support burden, and user trust.
- 10 or more years of product design experience, including meaningful experience leading, hiring, and developing designers in a fast-moving product organization.
- Strong product judgment and a record of shaping strategy, prioritization, and product decisions with product and engineering partners.
Requirements
- You can discuss swaps, order books, liquidity, routing, slippage, collateral, leverage, liquidation, settlement, smart-contract risk, and transaction signing.
Nice to have
- 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.
- Remember: you can always verify positions on our job boards at www.mystenlabs.com/careers http://www.mystenlabs.com/careers.
- All hiring decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers.
- 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.
Benefits
- Set the design vision, principles, and priorities in partnership with product, engineering, and business leadership.
Company info
- Our team is remote first and we are hiring across the world.
- Mysten Labs' mission is to advance the internet through step-function improvements in what technology makes possible.
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