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 syst…