Clearwater Analytics, LLC builds investment reporting technology for data-heavy enterprise workflows, and this role helps turn that complexity into a consistent, scalable UI experience. As a Senior UI/UX Designer focused on design systems, you will own the system’s direction and quality, then work hands-on to connect design and code so teams ship on-brand interfaces faster. This is an onsite position in Boise, Idaho.

In this Senior UI/UX Designer role, you will lead strategy, governance, and execution for Clearwater’s design system across web products, ensuring components, tokens, and documentation remain synchronized between Figma and the libraries engineers build against.

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) to keep design and implementation aligned.
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 (for example, Style Dictionary or similar) and a 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.
Make the design system machine-consumable with structured component specs, tokens, and documentation that AI coding tools can pull from (for example, an MCP-style integration), so AI-generated UI is on-brand by construction rather than by review.
Define guardrails and validation (audits, evaluation criteria, automated checks) to 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.
Drive adoption across the organization by identifying gaps and prioritizing new components or patterns based on real product needs.
Provide design leadership and mentorship to designers and engineers contributing to or consuming the system to raise the bar on visual and interaction craft.
Collaborate with Product Designers, Visual Designers, Interaction Designers, and Engineers to ensure the system supports dense, data-heavy enterprise workflows (tables, dashboards, reporting, complex forms).
Establish and maintain accessibility standards (WCAG) as a built-in property of every component.
Represent design systems strategy and progress to senior stakeholders, including the VP and Head of UX, as well as engineering leadership.
Track and report design system health, including adoption rate, component coverage, contribution velocity, and design/engineering consistency.

Requirements

6+ years of experience in product/UX/UI design, including 3+ years leading or building 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.
Strong UI development skills with proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, plus working knowledge of component-based front-end frameworks (for example, React) and comfort pairing with engineers on the system 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, using structured documentation and APIs/MCP-style integrations or similar approaches.
Hands-on experience building and maintaining a Figma-to-Storybook (or equivalent) component library pipeline to keep design and code in sync.
Advanced Figma skills, including variables/tokens, component architecture, auto layout, and prototyping.
Strong visual design craft (typography, layout, color, spacing, interaction states), with the ability to apply it to dense enterprise B2B interfaces.
Solid understanding of design token tooling and pipelines, including 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, including experience presenting design systems strategy and ROI to senior leadership.
A portfolio showing both design systems thinking and shipped, production UI.

Technologies

Figma, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Storybook, Style Dictionary, Claude Code, MCP-style integration, WCAG

Benefits

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 for growth
Competitive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits
Maternity and paternity leave
Personal Time Off and Volunteer Time Off
Work from anywhere 3 weeks out of the year
Work from home Fridays

Preferred Qualifications

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

How to Apply

Resume
Portfolio (required), including 2–3 case studies that highlight design systems work, covering design decisions and how the system was implemented and adopted in production
A brief note describing your experience taking a design system from Figma into shipped, production code

Senior UI/UX Designer

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