Clearwater Analytics is hiring a Staff UX Designer to own the strategy, craft, and execution of its design system across all web products. This senior, hands-on role reports to the VP, Head of UX, and partners closely with engineering leadership. The role serves builders beyond design, including engineers, PMs, and AI coding agents.
What you'll do
- Own the vision, roadmap, and governance for the design system across all web products
- Design and build core components, patterns, and tokens in Figma and code
- Own the Figma-to-Storybook component library workflow and documentation sync
- Partner with engineering to build and maintain the token pipeline and shared component library
- Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code to accelerate component development
- Make the design system machine-consumable for AI coding tools via structured specs and documentation
- Define guardrails and validation to catch off-system output at scale
- Define and evolve design system standards, documentation, and contribution guidelines
- Drive adoption of the design system and prioritize new components based on product needs
- Provide design leadership and mentorship to designers and engineers
- Collaborate with designers and engineers to support dense, data-heavy enterprise workflows
- Establish and maintain accessibility standards (WCAG) as a built-in component property
- Represent design systems strategy and progress to senior stakeholders
- Track and report on design system health metrics including adoption and contribution velocity
What we're looking for
- 8+ years in product/UX/UI design, including 3+ years leading design systems at scale
- Proven hands-on experience deploying a production design system from Figma to shipped code
- Strong UI development skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and component frameworks like React
- Proficiency with Claude Code or similar AI-assisted coding tools
- Experience making a design system consumable by non-designers or AI tooling
- Hands-on experience building a Figma-to-Storybook component library pipeline
- Advanced Figma skills: variables/tokens, component architecture, auto layout, prototyping
- Strong visual design craft for dense, enterprise B2B interfaces
- Solid understanding of design token tooling and pipelines
- Strong grasp of accessibility fundamentals (WCAG) in reusable components
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Portfolio demonstrating design systems thinking and shipped production UI
Nice to have
- Experience designing for enterprise SaaS or data-heavy/fintech products
- Experience leading or mentoring designers and engineers on a shared design system
- Familiarity with AI-assisted design tools and workflows
- Experience establishing design system governance models
- Motion and micro-interaction design experience
Good to know
- Reports to the VP, Head of UX
- Application requires resume, portfolio with 2–3 case studies, and a note on Figma-to-code experience