UX Designer - Design System

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.

• 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.

• 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.