Product Lead, AI
Role in brief
Mysten Labs is creating foundational infrastructure for decentralized protocols. The Product Lead will focus on shaping AI-driven products and leading customer discovery. This role is suited for experienced product managers with a strong entrepreneurial background.
About the role
In this role at Mysten Labs, you will be responsible for transforming agentic technologies into market-ready products. You will lead customer discovery to understand their needs and workflows, while also creating prototypes and product variants using AI-assisted tools. Your work will directly influence the product's development and market strategy.
The team at Mysten Labs is dedicated to advancing the internet through innovative technologies. As a remote-first company, they value collaboration across product management, design, engineering, and sales. Success in this role will be measured by customer value, adoption rates, and revenue growth, ensuring that the products meet market demands.
Skills that matter here
- Product Management: The role requires extensive experience in product management to guide products from concept to commercial adoption.
- Prototyping: Strong prototyping skills are essential for creating and iterating on functional product experiences.
- Customer Discovery: You will engage directly with customers to define product needs and validate demand.
- GTM Strategy: Experience in go-to-market strategy will be important for positioning and pricing products effectively.
- UX Design: Strong UX instincts are necessary to make complex technology accessible and user-friendly.
- Technical Fluency: You will need enough technical knowledge to collaborate effectively with engineering teams on product feasibility.
Who this role suits
- A seasoned product manager with over 12 years of experience.
- Someone who thrives in ambiguous and entrepreneurial environments.
- A hands-on individual who can influence cross-functional teams.
- An advocate for user-centric design and customer engagement.
From the employer
- Identify and prioritize customer problems our other agentic products are well positioned to solve.
- Lead customer discovery alongside our CTO, developing a clear understanding of buyer needs, user workflows, and adoption barriers.
- Rapidly create prototypes, interactive demonstrations, and product variants using AI-assisted design and coding tools.
- Test concepts with customers and use their feedback to refine the experience, scope, and value proposition.
- Define product requirements and work with engineering to turn validated prototypes into reliable, production-ready offerings.
- Shape packaging, pricing hypotheses, positioning, and GTM strategy in partnership with sales and the broader team.
- Design experiences that make agent capabilities, permissions, policies, and human oversight understandable to users.
- Balance customer-specific needs with opportunities to build reusable capabilities and repeatable products.
- Define success measures across customer value, adoption, conversion, and revenue, using results to guide iteration.
- 12+ years of Product Management, Product Design, or related experience.
- A track record of taking new products from an ambiguous opportunity through customer validation, launch, and commercial adoption.
- Startup or similarly entrepreneurial experience, with direct ownership of building and shipping under uncertainty.
- Strong prototyping skills and hands-on experience using AI-assisted or agentic coding tools to build and iterate on functional experiences.
- Experience working directly with customers to define products, validate demand, and support pilots or sales conversations.
- Commercial judgment, including experience contributing to packaging, pricing, positioning, or GTM decisions.
- Strong UX instincts and the ability to make complex technology approachable without obscuring important controls or constraints.
- Enough technical fluency to collaborate with engineering on integrations, feasibility, and the path from prototype to production.
- A hands-on working style and the ability to influence across product, design, engineering, and sales.
- 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 domain or related subdomains (e.g., mystenlabs.com/careers).
- Remember: you can always verify positions on our job boards at 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.
Questions about this role
What is the remote policy?
The team is remote-first and hiring across the world.
What level of experience is required?
The position requires over 12 years of experience in product management or related fields.
How do I apply for this position?
You can verify and apply for this position through the Mysten Labs careers page at www.mystenlabs.com/careers.
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