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Staff Product Designer, DeFi

Mysten Labs· Product
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Remote$150k - $225kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

staff level product designer focused on the DeepBook financial stack and first-party DeFi products (spot, margin, prediction markets, liquidity) at Mysten Labs, leading experience strategy, design systems, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Design leadershipProduct designDesign systemsDeFi / on-chain familiarityCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision covered for you and your dependents; HSAs/FSAs.
  • 18 weeks of paid Parental Leave
  • Wellbeing programs including family planning support, gender affirming care, hormone replacement therapy, mental health support and counseling, EAP for financial/legal assistance
  • Short Term and Long Term Disability coverage, Life Insurance and Accident Insurance, and other coverage options
  • Traveler Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Privacy protection service
  • Wellness stipend
  • Flexible paid time off and 11 paid holidays per year
  • Team offsites and annual all-company retreat
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Mysten Labs

Shaping the Future of the Internet

Mysten Labs is developing crucial infrastructure to power a more decentralized internet, transforming how people connect and share information online.

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