UI/UX Designer, Design Systems

Clearwater Analytics; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 100,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life保险

Maternity and paternity leave

Personal Time Off

Volunteer Time Off

Work from anywhere 3 weeks out of the:

Work from home Fridays

Job summary

Clearwater Analytics is seeking a UX/UI Designer, Design Systems to shape and drive Clearwater's design language across its enterprise platform. You will work hands-on with Figma, code, and tokens to ensure components stay in sync with production.

The role partners closely with engineering and product teams to deliver scalable design systems across dashboards and reporting interfaces. The ideal candidate brings 5+ years in product/UX/UI design, with 2+ years in design systems, strong

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product/UX/UI design experience, including 2+ years on design systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• 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 in Figma and code.
• Drive the Figma-to-Storybook component library workflow and keep design and code in sync.
• Collaborate with engineering to maintain the design system's token pipeline and shared library.
• Mentor designers and engineers contributing to the system and support adoption at scale.

Skills

Design systems craft and execution

Visual/UI craft

Front-end collaboration

Cross-functional collaboration

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

React

Figma

Storybook

Style Dictionary

Claude Code

Job description

Clearwater Analytics delivers a unified, front-to-back investment management platform for institutional investors across public and private markets. Our platform, including products like Beacon by Clearwater and Enfusion by Clearwater, supports the full investment lifecycle — front office portfolio and order management, trading, and risk and performance; middle and back office accounting, reporting, and reconciliation; and compliance and investment data management. Clearwater powers more than $10 trillion in assets for 2,400+ clients worldwide, including asset managers, insurers, hedge funds, corporations, banks, pensions, and public sector institutions. A strong, well-governed design system is core to how we scale great design across this large, fast-growing platform.

Role Overview

We're looking for a UX/UI Designer, Design Systems to contribute to the strategy, craft, and execution of Clearwater's design system. This is a hands-on role: you'll help shape the direction of the system, design and help build its components and tokens, and drive adoption across product teams. Joining the Design Systems team, you'll be a key contributor to design systems at Clearwater and a close partner to engineering.
This role requires more than systems thinking in Figma. You must be strong in visual/UI craft and comfortable working in code — contributing to or pairing closely with engineers on component libraries, design tokens, and front-end implementation — so that what ships in production matches the system's intent. Proven, hands-on experience building and deploying a design system in a live product is required.
Increasingly, our design system needs to serve builders beyond the design team — engineers, PMs, and AI coding agents generating UI directly from our components and tokens. You'll help treat the design system as enablement infrastructure for anyone building on Clearwater's platform.

Key Responsibilities

• 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, and 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 (e.g., an MCP-style integration), so AI-generated UI is on-brand by construction rather than by review.
• Contribute to guardrails and validation (audits, eval criteria, automated checks) that catch off-system or off-brand output from AI-assisted or non-designer contributors at scale, not just from formal design reviews.
• Contribute to defining and evolving design system standards, documentation, and contribution guidelines to support adoption at scale across distributed product teams.
• Drive adoption of the design system across the organization; identify gaps and help prioritize new components or patterns based on real product needs.
• Mentor and support designers and engineers contributing to or consuming the system; help raise the bar on visual and interaction craft.
• Collaborate closely with Product Designers, Visual Designers, Interaction Designers, and Engineers to ensure the system supports dense, data-heavy enterprise workflows (tables, dashboards, reporting, complex forms).
• Help establish and maintain accessibility standards (WCAG) as a built-in property of every component, not an afterthought.
• Contribute to presenting design systems strategy and progress to senior stakeholders, including the VP, Head of UX and engineering leadership.
• Track and report on design system health: adoption rate, component coverage, contribution velocity, and design/engineering consistency.

Required Qualifications

• 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 — is required. Design-only or theoretical design systems experience is not sufficient.
• Strong UI development skills: 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 the ability to apply it to dense, enterprise B2B interfaces.
• Solid understanding of design token tooling and pipelines and how tokens flow from design into production code.
• Strong grasp of accessibility fundamentals (WCAG) and how to encode them into reusable components.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting design work and design systems progress to cross-functional partners and leadership.
• A portfolio that demonstrates both design systems thinking and shipped, production UI — not only visual or marketing work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing for enterprise SaaS or data-heavy/fintech products (tables, dashboards, complex forms, reporting).
• Experience mentoring or supporting designers and engineers contributing to a shared design system.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted design tools and workflows (e.g., Figma Make, Claude) to accelerate design system work.
• Experience contributing to design system governance models (contribution models, versioning, release processes).
• Motion and micro-interaction design experience.

Key Skills

• Design systems craft and execution
• Strong visual and UI craft
• Front-end/UI development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, component frameworks, Claude Code)
• Figma-to-Storybook component library workflows
• Design token architecture and tooling
• Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder communication
• Mentorship

What Success Looks Like

• Clearwater has a well-governed, actively adopted design system spanning Figma and code.
• Product teams ship faster and more consistently because the system covers their real needs.
• Design and engineering stay in sync through reliable, well-documented token and component pipelines.
• Design system quality and adoption visibly improve quarter over quarter.
• Non-design contributors (PMs, engineers, AI-assisted workflows) can produce on-system UI without a designer in the loop for every change.

What We Offer

• Business casual atmosphere in a flexible working environment
• Team-focused culture that promotes innovation and ownership
• Access cutting-edge investment reporting technology and expertise
• Defined and undefined career pathways, allowing you to grow your way
• Competitive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits
• Maternity and paternity 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 contribute to a passionate design and engineering team that is shaping the future of investment management technology. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, thank you for your interest in a career with Clearwater!