Sr. Product UI/Visual Designer - FO Applications

Clearwater Analytics; New York (NY); On-site; USD 156,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Business casual atmosphere

Team-focused culture

Cutting-edge investment technology and

Career pathways

Parental leave

PTO

Volunteer time off

WFH Fridays

Work from anywhere

Job summary

Clearwater Analytics seeks a Senior Product UI Visual Designer to turn rough wireframes and AI-generated concepts into polished, production-ready visuals. You will enforce our design standards across dense, data-heavy front office tools used by traders and analysts.

You will collaborate with product designers, managers, and engineers to maintain visual quality from concept to shipped features. Proficiency in Figma and familiarity with Claude-based tooling are highly valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product/UI visual design with a strong visual craft (typography, layout, color, hierarchy).
• Ability to elevate low-fidelity input into refined, standards-compliant visual design.
• Deep fluency in Figma, including components, variants, auto layout, and tokens/variables.
• Working knowledge of design systems and how components, tokens, and documentation fit together.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to present and defend design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Interpret wireframes and rough prototypes into high-fidelity, production-ready visuals.
• Enforce and apply CWAN visual design standards across screens.
• Make design judgments when drafts are ambiguous or inconsistent.
• Deliver polished, developer-ready Figma files with specs and redlines.
• Partner with product designers, PMs, and engineers to ensure visual quality from concept to shipped feature.

Skills

UI visual design

Visual hierarchy

Collaboration

Communication

Design judgment

Tools

Figma

Claude Design

Job description

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Product UI Visual Designer to take our product experiences from rough structure to polished, production-ready visual design. Our products are trading systems, trading idea research management systems, and risk management systems built for the Front Office at hedge funds and asset management firms - data dense, highly transactional tools used by traders, portfolio managers, and analysts every day. You’ll work primarily from wireframe schematics and rough AI-generated prototypes - turning that early-stage thinking into interfaces that are visually refined, consistent, and true to the CWAN Design System. This role also has a standing responsibility beyond individual projects: partnering with the team that maintains the CWAN Design System to propose, define, and document new design standards as our product surface area grows.

What You’ll Do : Visual design execution

• Interpret wireframes, low-fidelity schematics, and rough AI-generated prototypes and translate them into high-fidelity, production-ready visual designs.




• Apply and enforce our existing visual design standards - typography, color, spacing, iconography, elevation, and layout grids - across every screen you touch.




• Make sound design judgment calls when a wireframe or AI prototype is ambiguous, incomplete, or visually inconsistent, resolving gaps without waiting for direction.




• Prepare polished, developer-ready Figma files with clear specs, redlines, and component usage so engineering can build from your work with minimal back-and-forth.




• Partner with product designers, product managers, and engineers to review work in progress and ensure visual quality holds up from concept through shipped feature.

Design system contribution

• Work directly with the CWAN Design System team to identify gaps where current standards don’t cover a new pattern, component, or use case.




• Propose new or updated visual design standards (components, tokens, patterns, documentation) based on recurring needs you encounter in project work.




• Contribute polished, system-ready component and pattern designs - not just one-off screen solutions, so new standards are reusable across the product.




• Document rationale and usage guidance for new standards so other designers can apply them consistently without re-litigating the decision.




• Give and incorporate feedback in design system reviews, and help audit existing product surfaces for drift from current standards.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in product/UI visual design, with a portfolio that demonstrates strong visual craft (typography, layout, color, hierarchy) applied to real product interfaces.




• Proven ability to take low-fidelity input - wireframes, sketches, or AI-generated concepts and elevate it into refined, standards-compliant visual design.




• Deep fluency in Figma, including components, variants, auto layout, and design tokens/variables.




• Working knowledge of design systems: how components, tokens, and documentation fit together, and how design decisions scale across a product.




• Sharp eye for visual consistency and the judgment to know when a new pattern deserves a system-level standard versus a one-off exception.




• Strong collaboration and communication skills - comfortable presenting and defending design decisions to designers, PMs, and engineers.




• Comfort designing for dense, data-heavy professional workflows where information hierarchy, precision, and speed of comprehension matter as much as visual polish.




• Adept at using AI tools to streamline design work and make updates to designs — e.g., familiarity with Claude to make updates to Figma designs, evaluate and refine AI-generated prototypes, draft design system documentation, and speed up day-to-day production work.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing financial services software - ideally trading systems, trading idea/research management systems, or risk management systems - for the Front Office at hedge funds or asset management firms.




• Experience contributing directly to a formal design system or component library, in any capacity.




• Front-end literacy (HTML/CSS fundamentals) sufficient to have informed conversations with engineers about implementation.




• Experience with motion or interaction design for UI components.




• Familiarity with Claude Design, and the ability to create and/or update Claude Code prototypes.

Tools & Ways of Working

Figma is our primary design tool, and the CWAN Design System is the shared source of truth for components, tokens, and patterns. AI tools — including Figma AI Design Agent, Figma Make, and Claude — are part of our everyday workflow, from making updates to Figma designs and evaluating rough AI-generated prototypes to speeding up documentation and production work, and proficiency with them is expected. Familiarity with Claude Design and Claude Code prototypes is a plus. You’ll work closely with the CWAN Design System team on standards work, and with product designers and engineers on day-to-day screen work — often moving between the two in the same week.

What we offer:

• Business casual atmosphere in a flexible working environment




• Team-focused culture that promotes innovation and ownership




• Accesscutting-edgeinvestment reporting technology andexpertise




• Defined and undefined career pathways, allowing you to grow your way




• Competitive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits




• Maternity andpaternity leave




• Personal Time Off and Volunteer Time Off to give back to the community




• Work from anywhere 3 weeks out of the year




• Work from home Fridays

Why Join Us?

This is an incredible opportunity to lead a passionate engineering team that is shaping the future of investment management technology. Ifyou’reready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact,

Salary Range

$156,400.00 - $210,841.00

This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, benefits include: health/vision/dental insurance, 401(k), PTO, parental leave, and medical leave, STD/LTD insurance benefits. Clearwater Analytics is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.