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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.\nRole Overview\nWe'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.\nThis 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.\nIncreasingly, 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nContribute to the vision, roadmap, and governance for Clearwater's design system across all web products.\nDesign 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.\nDrive the Figma-to-Storybook component library workflow, ensuring components, variants, and documentation stay synchronized between design and the published library engineers build against.\nPartner 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.\nUse AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code to accelerate component development, prototyping, and design-to-code handoff.\nContribute 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.\nContribute 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.\nContribute to defining and evolving design system standards, documentation, and contribution guidelines to support adoption at scale across distributed product teams.\nDrive adoption of the design system across the organization; identify gaps and help prioritize new components or patterns based on real product needs.\nMentor and support designers and engineers contributing to or consuming the system; help raise the bar on visual and interaction craft.\nCollaborate 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).\nHelp establish and maintain accessibility standards (WCAG) as a built-in property of every component, not an afterthought.\nContribute to presenting design systems strategy and progress to senior stakeholders, including the VP, Head of UX and engineering leadership.\nTrack and report on design system health: adoption rate, component coverage, contribution velocity, and design/engineering consistency.\nRequired Qualifications\n5+ years of experience in product/UX/UI design, including 2+ years working on design systems at scale.\nProven, 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.\nStrong 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.\nProficiency with Claude Code or similar AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate component development and design-to-code workflows.\nExperience making a design system consumable by non-designers or AI tooling (structured documentation, APIs/MCPs, or similar), not just human-facing Figma/Storybook libraries.\nHands-on experience building and maintaining a Figma-to-Storybook (or equivalent) component library pipeline, keeping design and code in sync.\nAdvanced Figma skills: variables/tokens, component architecture, auto layout, and prototyping.\nStrong visual design craft - typography, layout, color, spacing, and interaction states - and the ability to apply it to dense, enterprise B2B interfaces.\nSolid understanding of design token tooling and pipelines and how tokens flow from design into production code.\nStrong grasp of accessibility fundamentals (WCAG) and how to encode them into reusable components.\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting design work and design systems progress to cross-functional partners and leadership.\nA portfolio that demonstrates both design systems thinking and shipped, production UI - not only visual or marketing work.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience designing for enterprise SaaS or data-heavy/fintech products (tables, dashboards, complex forms, reporting).\nExperience mentoring or supporting designers and engineers contributing to a shared design system.\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted design tools and workflows (e.g., Figma Make, Claude) to accelerate design system work.\nExperience contributing to design system governance models (contribution models, versioning, release processes).\nMotion and micro-interaction design experience.\nKey Skills\nDesign systems craft and execution\nStrong visual and UI craft\nFront-end/UI development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, component frameworks, Claude Code)\nFigma-to-Storybook component library workflows\nDesign token architecture and tooling\nCross-functional collaboration and stakeholder communication\nMentorship\nWhat Success Looks Like\nClearwater has a well-governed, actively adopted design system spanning Figma and code.\nProduct teams ship faster and more consistently because the system covers their real needs.\nDesign and engineering stay in sync through reliable, well-documented token and component pipelines.\nDesign system quality and adoption visibly improve quarter over quarter.\nNon-design contributors (PMs, engineers, AI-assisted workflows) can produce on-system UI without a designer in the loop for every change.\nHow to Apply\nPlease submit:\nResume\nPortfolio (required), including 2-3 case studies that highlight your design systems work - covering both design decisions and how the system was implemented and adopted in production.\nA brief note on your experience taking a design system from Figma into shipped, production code.\nWhat We Offer\nBusiness casual atmosphere in a flexible working environment\nTeam-focused culture that promotes innovation and ownership\nAccess cutting-edge investment reporting technology and expertise\nDefined and undefined career pathways, allowing you to grow your way\nCompetitive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits\nMaternity and paternity leave\nPersonal Time Off and Volunteer Time Off to give back to the community\nWork from anywhere 3 weeks out of the year\nWork from home Fridays\nWhy Join Us?\nThis 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, apply now! 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