Staff, UX Designer - Design System.

About this role

Location: San Jose, CA or Boise, ID

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 Staff UX Designer, Design Systems to own the strategy, craft, and execution of Clearwater's design system. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role: you'll set the vision for the system, design and help build its components and tokens, and drive adoption across product teams. Reporting to the VP, Head of UX, you'll be the primary voice for design systems at Clearwater and a key partner to engineering leadership.

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 treat the design system as enablement infrastructure for anyone building on Clearwater's platform.

Key Responsibilities

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