Product Manager Jobs at Mysten Labs

Mysten Labs PM interview guide

Mysten Labs is the web3 infrastructure company that created the Sui blockchain and the Move-based smart contract ecosystem (founded 2021 by five former Meta/Novi/Diem engineers, led by CEO Evan Cheng). It is a deeply engineering-first organization, so PM roles are highly technical and tied to the Sui ecosystem (DeFi, payments, blockchain infrastructure, wallets, developer tooling). Public PM-specific interview data is thin: across Glassdoor, Blind, levels.fyi, Exponent, IGotAnOffer, the Sui/Ashby job board, and Mysten's own careers page, there is no dedicated Mysten PM interview guide and only a small number of candidate-reported questions. What IS well-documented is the process and the competency themes Mysten itself publishes. The process starts with a ~45 minute recruiter/phone screen on your background and interest, followed by roughly four separate 45-minute cross-functional interviews (hiring manager plus people from different departments, often spanning ~4 weeks). A heavy, recurring theme is demonstrating genuine understanding of what Mysten is building: candidates are explicitly told to study the Sui whitepaper, the Sui website, the Mysten blog, and Evan Cheng's talks. Mysten's careers page states it probes how you have executed, challenged yourself, motivated others, made judgment calls, and where you have failed. Because verbatim sourced questions are scarce, the question list below blends the few real candidate-reported questions with competency-area prompts grounded in Mysten's actual PM job postings (payments/compliance, DeFi, blockchain infrastructure, developer ecosystem) and its stated behavioral themes; generic openers are excluded per instructions. Treat the role-derived items as high-probability prep areas rather than confirmed verbatim asks.

The interview process

1. Recruiter / phone screen (~45 min). One initial call covering your background, experiences, and specific interest in Mysten Labs and the Sui ecosystem. Candidates are often sourced via LinkedIn by a recruiter. Sourced from Mysten's careers page and Glassdoor candidate accounts.
2. Hiring manager interview. A conversation with the PM hiring manager (in one product-role account, the head of marketing/relevant function). Probes depth of product experience and fit for the specific charter (e.g. payments, DeFi, infrastructure).
3. Four cross-functional 45-min interviews. The core loop is roughly four separate 45-minute meetings with people from different departments (engineering, design, dev relations, partnerships, marketing), meant to give a cross-functional view of your breadth and depth. The overall process can span about 4 weeks.
4. Recurring 'what we are building' theme. Across rounds, expect questions testing genuine understanding of Sui, Move, and Mysten's products (Walrus storage, DeepBook, Kiosk, Slush wallet, Enoki). Mysten explicitly directs candidates to study the Sui whitepaper, Sui website, the blog, and Evan Cheng's talks as preparation.
5. Behavioral / values evaluation. Mysten states it asks how you have executed, challenged yourself, motivated others, and made judgments, plus where you have failed. Culture signal: hiring people who 'build for the greater good of Mysten,' not for a specific team, and who 'get fired up about something they love.'

Likely PM interview questions

1. Describe the stages of setting up an experiment (an A/B test) end to end.Execution
2. Walk through your past experience running A/B tests and working with ML models.Technical
3. Tell me about a time you executed on something difficult: how did you drive it from idea to delivery?Behavioral