Staff Product Designer, DeFi

The role

You will set the experience strategy for the DeepBook financial stack and first-party products. This includes designing workflows for spot trading, margin, prediction markets, and liquidity on Sui.

What you will do

• Set the design vision, principles, and priorities with leadership.
• Own the end-to-end experience across DeepBook products and applications.
• Lead the design of core journeys including onboarding, funding, and order entry.
• Design for retail traders, DeFi users, market makers, institutions, and developers.
• Remain hands-on by framing problems, prototyping, testing, and reviewing implementation.
• Build a scalable design system and shared interaction patterns.
• Establish a practical research program using interviews and product analytics.
• Partner with engineering to understand protocol behavior and platform constraints.
• Work with legal, security, marketing, and business development to launch products.
• Define design and product quality measures.

Required qualifications

• 10 or more years of product design experience.
• Experience leading, hiring, and developing designers in a fast-moving product organization.
• A portfolio showing 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.
• Strong product judgment and a record of shaping strategy and prioritization.
• Skill in interaction design, information architecture, visual design, prototyping, research, and systems thinking.
• Experience building design systems and operating practices.

Nice to have

• 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.
• 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.

About the company

Mysten Labs builds foundational infrastructure and products to advance the internet through improvements in technology. Their work spans on-chain finance and the emerging agent economy through Sui and Move.