mystenlabs - Staff Product Designer, DeFi
Requirements
• 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. • Regarding the recent rash of technology job scams: Be aware that emails from genuine Mysten Labs group recruiters will always come from the @mystenlabs.com http://mystenlabs.com domain or related subdomains (e.g., mystenlabs.com/careers http://mystenlabs.com/careers). Remember: you can always verify positions on our job boards at www.mystenlabs.com/careers http://www.mystenlabs.com/careers. • To support an efficient and fair hiring process, we may use technology-assisted tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to help identify and evaluate candidates. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers. • 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!
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. • 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.
Benefits
• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $150,000-$225,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level, but not location (within the US). The salary range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within this range, individual pay is determined by additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. • Our total compensation package also includes: tokens + equity compensation, benefits, and eligibility to participate in the annual equity and token refresh grant programs. • Our benefits package for US employees also includes: • 🩺 Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision covered for you and your dependents; including Tax Savings Benefits such as HSAs and FSAs. • 🍼 18 weeks of paid Parental Leave • 👥 Complimentary access to wellbeing programs, such as family planning support, gender affirming care, and hormone replacement therapy as well as physical fitness/nutrition apps. We also provide mental health support and counseling and EAP (Employee Assistance Program) for financial/legal assistance, home life referrals, and more • ⛑️ Short Term and Long Term Disability coverage as well as Life Insurance and Accident Insurance, and other coverage options. • 🧳 Traveler Insurance • 😎 Complimentary privacy protection service • ✨ Wellness stipend • 🌴 Flexible paid time off and 11 paid holidays per year • ✈️ Team offsites and annual all-company retreat • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • (The role location is located in the upper left hand side of this page) • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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