Staff, UX Designer - Design System.

Into Design Systems; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Clearwater Analytics is seeking a UX/UI Designer focused on Design Systems to shape the strategy, craft components and tokens, and drive adoption across product teams. You will work hands-on in Figma and code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React) and collaborate to keep design and implementation aligned.

The role emphasizes strong visual craft, production-ready design systems, and building a scalable token pipeline with documentation to empower engineers and designers alike.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product/UX/UI design, with 2+ years on design systems at scale.
• Production-ready design system experience from Figma to code.
• Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React.
• Experience with AI coding tools to speed development.
• Ability to create system documentation and tokens.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the vision, roadmap, and governance for the design system across all web products.
• Design and help build core components, patterns, and design tokens, working hands-on in both Figma and code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React).
• Drive the Figma-to-Storybook component library workflow, ensuring docs stay synchronized with the library.
• Partner with engineering to build and maintain the design system's token pipeline and shared component library.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate component development and handoff.
• Contribute to guardrails and validation to catch off-brand output at scale.
• Define and evolve design system standards and guidelines for adoption at scale.

Skills

Design systems

UI design

Figma

React

Storybook

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Tools

Storybook

Claude Code

Style Dictionary

Job description

Clearwater Analytics delivers a unified, front-to-back investment management platform for institutional investors across public and private markets. The company is hiring a UX/UI Designer, Design Systems to contribute to the strategy, craft, and execution of Clearwater's design system; the hands-on role includes shaping the system's direction, designing and building components and tokens, and driving adoption across product teams. The role requires strong visual/UI craft, comfort working in code, and proven, hands-on experience building and deploying a design system in a live product.

What you'll do

• Contribute to the vision, roadmap, and governance for Clearwater's design system across all web products.
• Design and help build core components, patterns, and design tokens, working hands-on in both Figma and code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, component frameworks such as React) so design and implementation stay in lockstep.
• Drive the Figma-to-Storybook component library workflow, ensuring components, variants, and documentation stay synchronized between design and the published library engineers build against.
• Partner with engineering to build and maintain the design system's token pipeline (e.g., Style Dictionary or similar) and shared component library, ensuring tokens map cleanly from design to code.
• Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code to accelerate component development, prototyping, and design-to-code handoff.
• Contribute to making the design system machine-consumable—structured component specs, tokens, and documentation that AI coding tools can pull from directly.
• Contribute to guardrails and validation (audits, evaluation criteria, automated checks) that catch off-system or off-brand output from AI-assisted or non-designer contributors at scale.
• Define and evolve design system standards, documentation, and contribution guidelines to support adoption at scale across distributed product teams.

What they're looking for

• 5+ years of experience in product/UX/UI design, including 2+ years working on design systems at scale.
• Proven, hands-on experience designing and deploying a production design system — from Figma library and tokens through shipped code; design-only or theoretical experience is not sufficient.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with working knowledge of component-based front-end frameworks (e.g., React), and comfort contributing to or pairing closely with engineers on the system's codebase.
• Proficiency with Claude Code or similar AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate component development and design-to-code workflows.
• Experience making a design system consumable by non-designers or AI tooling (structured documentation, APIs/MCPs, or similar), not just human-facing Figma/Storybook libraries.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining a Figma-to-Storybook (or equivalent) component library pipeline, keeping design and code in sync.
• Advanced Figma skills: variables/tokens, component architecture, auto layout, and prototyping.
• Strong visual design craft — typography, layout, color, spacing, and interaction states — and ability to apply it to dense, enterprise B2B interfaces.