Staff UX Designer — Design Systems Lead

Clearwater Analytics; Boise (ID); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

401(k) with match

Work from anywhere 3 weeks out of the

Work from home Fridays

Maternity and paternity leave

Competitive medical, dental, vision, &

Job summary

Clearwater Analytics is seeking a Staff UX Designer, Design Systems to own strategy, craft, and execution of Clearwater's design system. This is a senior, hands‑on leadership role: you'll set the vision for the system, design and help build its components and tokens, and drive adoption across product teams.

Reporting to the VP, Head of UX, you'll be the primary voice for design systems at Clearwater and a key partner to engineering leadership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product/UX/UI design, including 3+ years leading or building design systems at scale.
• Strong UI development skills: proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with working knowledge of component-based front-end frameworks (e.g., React).
• Proficiency with Claude Code or similar AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate component development and design-to-code workflows.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own 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, and component frameworks such as React) so design and implementation stay in lockstep.
• Own 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 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.

Skills

Design systems

UX/UI design

Figma

HTML/CSS/JS

React

Accessibility WCAG

Tools

Storybook

Claude Code

Figma

Job description

Clearwater Analytics is seeking a Staff UX Designer, Design Systems to own strategy, craft, and execution of Clearwater's design system. This is a senior, hands‑on leadership role: you'll set the vision for the system, design and help build its components and tokens, and drive adoption across product teams.

Reporting to the VP, Head of UX, you'll be the primary voice for design systems at Clearwater and a key partner to engineering leadership.