Staff Product Designer DeFi
Mysten Labs develops blockchain infrastructure and protocols including Sui network, Walrus storage, and Enoki platform for decentralized applications.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Mysten Labs
Mysten Labs builds critical infrastructure enabling decentralized internet adoption through blockchain technology. The company develops protocols and tools including the Sui Layer 1 blockchain, Walrus decentralized storage network, and Enoki developer platform. Founded by former Meta executives who led the Diem blockchain and Move programming language development, Mysten Labs applies distributed systems expertise and cryptographic research to create scalable Web3 infrastructure.
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About the Role
You will set the design vision and experience strategy for DeepBook and related financial products. You will lead end-to-end product design across trading, margin, prediction markets, liquidity, onboarding, portfolio management, and transaction workflows. You will partner with product, engineering, legal, security, marketing, and business stakeholders; establish research and quality measures; build scalable design systems; and lead and develop designers while remaining hands-on with critical product flows.
Requirements
- 10 or more years of product design experience
- Experience leading, hiring, and developing designers
- Portfolio demonstrating individual design craft and leadership across complex data-dense products
- Experience designing trading, investing, fintech, payments, crypto, marketplace, or other high-stakes products
- Fluency in DeFi and direct experience using onchain products
- Knowledge of swaps, order books, liquidity, routing, slippage, collateral, leverage, liquidation, settlement, smart-contract risk, and transaction signing
- Interaction design, information architecture, visual design, prototyping, research, and systems thinking skills
- Experience building design systems and operating practices across multiple products
Responsibilities
- Set the design vision, principles, and priorities with product, engineering, and business leadership
- Own the end-to-end experience across DeepBook spot, margin, prediction products, liquidity workflows, and first-party applications
- Lead design for onboarding, funding, market discovery, order entry, transaction signing, portfolio management, collateral, liquidation, settlement, and recovery workflows
- Design coherent experiences for retail traders, DeFi users, market makers, liquidity providers, institutions, and developers
- Frame problems, develop concepts, prototype, test, and review implementation quality for priority work
- Build scalable design systems and interaction patterns for financial data, charts, tables, account states, alerts, and risk communication
- Establish research 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
- Define design and product quality measures tied to activation, conversion, trading success, retention, support burden, and user trust
Benefits
- Token and equity compensation
- Eligibility for annual equity and token refresh grants
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
- HSA and FSA tax savings benefits
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellbeing programs including family planning support, gender-affirming care, hormone replacement therapy, fitness and nutrition apps, mental health support, counseling, and EAP
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Life and accident insurance
- Traveler insurance
- 401(k)
- Privacy protection service
- Wellness stipend
- Flexible paid time off
- 11 paid holidays per year
- Team offsites and annual all-company retreat
