Senior Design Systems Lead — UI/UX & Tokens

Clearwater Analytics; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Maternity and paternity leave

PTO and Volunteer Time Off

Work from anywhere 3 weeks per year

Work from home Fridays

Job summary

Clearwater Analytics is seeking a Senior UX Designer, Design Systems to own the strategy, craft, and execution of Clearwater's design system. This role is hands-on, leading governance and adoption across product teams, bridging design and engineering as tokens and components ship into production.

You'll collaborate with product and engineering leaders, build a scalable token pipeline, ensure WCAG accessibility, and mentor designers and engineers contributing to the system, while driving

Qualifications

• 6+ years of product/UX/UI design experience, including design systems leadership.
• Hands-on experience shipping a production design system from Figma to code.
• Strong UI development skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React.
• Experience using Claude Code or similar AI-assisted coding tools.
• Ability to make design systems consumable for non-designers and AI tools.
• Experience building Figma-to-Storybook pipelines and token workflows.
• Advanced Figma skills: tokens, components, auto layout, prototyping.
• Strong knowledge of WCAG accessibility and embedding it in components.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; portfolio with shipped UI.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, roadmap, and governance for Clearwater's design system across web products.
• Design and build core components, patterns, and tokens in Figma and code (HTML/CSS/JS/React).
• Maintain the Figma-to-Storybook workflow with synchronized components and docs.
• Partner with engineering to maintain token pipelines and shared libraries.
• Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate component development and handoff.
• Define guardrails to prevent off-brand output from AI/ contributors at scale.
• Evolve design system standards, docs, and contribution guidelines for scalable adoption.
• Drive organization-wide adoption and mentor designers and engineers contributing to the system.
• Collaborate with Product, Visual, and Interaction Designers and Engineers on data-heavy enterprise UIs.

Skills

Design systems strategy

Senior UI craft

Front-end development

Design tokens

Cross-functional leadership

Mentorship

Tools

Figma

Storybook

Claude Code

Job description

Clearwater Analytics is seeking a Senior UX Designer, Design Systems to own the strategy, craft, and execution of Clearwater's design system. This role is hands-on, leading governance and adoption across product teams, bridging design and engineering as tokens and components ship into production.

You'll collaborate with product and engineering leaders, build a scalable token pipeline, ensure WCAG accessibility, and mentor designers and engineers contributing to the system, while driving