Staff Product Designer, DeFi

Mysten Labs

. Set the design vision, principles, and priorities with product, engineering, and business leadership .

Posted 9/19/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $150,000 - $225,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in product design, particularly in high-stakes financial products, with a strong focus on user experience, design systems, and team leadership. Proficient in collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive product strategy and execution in dynamic environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords

10+ Years Of Product Design ExperienceExperience Designing Trading And Fintech ProductsFluency In DeFi And Onchain ProductsSkill In Interaction Design And PrototypingExperience Building Design Systems

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Hard Skills

Interaction DesignInformation ArchitectureVisual DesignPrototypingResearchSystems ThinkingDesign System DevelopmentProduct Quality MeasuresUser Experience DesignData-Dense Product Design

Soft Skills

LeadershipCollaborationProblem-SolvingAdaptabilityCommunication

Industry Keywords

FintechDeFiTradingLiquiditySmart-Contract RiskTransaction SigningMarket DiscoveryPortfolio ManagementUser TrustBackground Check

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 related first-party applications
Lead core journeys including onboarding, funding, market discovery, order entry, transaction review and signing, portfolio and position management, collateral, liquidation risk, settlement, and failed-state recovery
Design experiences for retail traders, experienced DeFi users, market makers, liquidity providers, institutions, and developers
Frame problems, develop concepts, prototype, test, and review 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 research program using interviews, usability studies, product analytics, support feedback, and market observation
Partner with engineering on protocol behavior, transaction states, latency, data dependencies, security boundaries, and platform constraints
Collaborate with legal, security, marketing, business development, and ecosystem teams to launch products responsibly and communicate financial concepts accurately
Define design and product quality measures connected to activation, conversion, trading success, retention, support burden, and user trust
Build and develop a design team covering a growing product surface

Requirements

What you’ll need

10 or more years of product design experience
Meaningful experience leading, hiring, and developing designers in a fast-moving product organization
Portfolio demonstrating exceptional individual craft and leadership impact 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
Ability to discuss swaps, order books, liquidity, routing, slippage, collateral, leverage, liquidation, settlement, smart-contract risk, and transaction signing
Strong product judgment and experience 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 across multiple products
Comfort working through ambiguity and changing product, technical, market, and legal inputs
Employment contingent upon successful completion of a background check, potentially including employment history, education credentials, and criminal history verification

Benefits

Comp & perks

Tokens and equity compensation
Eligibility to participate in annual equity and token refresh grant programs
Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents
Tax Savings Benefits including HSAs and FSAs
18 weeks of paid parental leave
Wellbeing programs, including family planning support, gender affirming care, hormone replacement therapy, and physical fitness/nutrition apps
Mental health support and counseling
Employee Assistance Program for financial/legal assistance and home life referrals
Short Term and Long Term Disability coverage
Life Insurance and Accident Insurance
Traveler Insurance
401(k)
Complimentary privacy protection service
Wellness stipend
Flexible paid time off
11 paid holidays per year
Team offsites and annual all-company retreat