--- title: 'Senior Product Designer — Design Systems at Clear Street' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-designer-design-systems-clear-street-remote-52908v1gcad6' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-13' --- # Senior Product Designer — Design Systems at Clear Street - **Company:** Clear Street - **Location:** Remote - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-30 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clearstreet/jobs/8241303 ## Job description Clear Street Active is a new retail trading platform. We're building the design team from scratch, and this is a critical early hire to help set the foundation as we build fast. The role is rooted in design systems but won't stay there. You'll be involved in product decisions alongside PMs and engineers from day one. ## What you'll do - Own the design system: token architecture, Figma Variables, component library, Code Connect mappings, documentation - Be the connection between design and engineering. When things drift, you catch it and work with engineering to fix it before it becomes a problem. - Set accessibility and quality standards and hold to them - Work with PMs and product designers when a systems decision has product implications - Use AI tooling as part of how you work. Claude Code, Cursor, whatever closes gaps and moves things faster. ## What we're looking for - Has built or substantially rebuilt a design system, not just contributed to one. Those are different jobs. - Fluent in Figma Variables, design tokens, and the Figma-to-code bridge, whether that's Code Connect, Token Studio, or something equivalent - Has opinions about token naming, semantic structure, and governance, and can explain them clearly to an engineer or a PM - Uses AI tooling to actually close gaps, not just as an experiment - Some familiarity with investing or trading, from work or personal use - Comfortable in the product layer. Understands the users at the end of the decisions being made. - Can work without much oversight ## Nice to have - Experience with Token Studio or Style Dictionary - Fintech or financial services background - Exposure to React component architecture - Deep trading domain expertise ## About Clear Street ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing legacy capital markets infrastructure with a modern, cloud-native, API-first clearing and custody platform. - **Entity Type**: Private (Funding Stage: Series B) - **Headquarters**: New York, United States - **Founded**: 2018 - **Founders**: Kenneth Sicklick, Alex Lawton, John D’Agostini, Andy Volz ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Services, Capital Markets, Fintech - **Target customers**: Sophisticated individual traders, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, broker-dealers, ETF issuers, family offices, corporate issuers, traditional and alternative asset managers, and investors [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/) - **Mission**: To give every sophisticated investor access to every asset, in every market, through a unified platform built for speed, transparency, and scale [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/careers) ## Products & Services - **Clear Street Platform**: A single, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform that provides clearing, custody, execution, and financing services for U.S. equities, options, and fixed-income. The platform is API-based and AI-enhanced, offering horizontally scalable technology with real-time data and risk management [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Total Funding**: $1.0 billion in capital raised [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/about). - **Key Metrics**: - **Customer Balances**: ~$28.4 billion - **Notional Traded Per Day**: ~$16 billion - **Shares Traded Per Day**: ~550 million - **Transaction Growth**: 94% year-over-year - **Institutional Clients**: ~700 - **Employees**: 800+ worldwide [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/about) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in the provided search results, but the company has raised significant capital from institutional investors. ## Competitive Advantages - **Modern Infrastructure**: Replaces legacy, mainframe-based systems with a cloud-native, horizontally scalable platform, providing significant cost and efficiency advantages. - **Single Source of Truth**: All data, risk management, and operations are held in a single system, minimizing risk and operational friction for clients. - **Multi-Asset Support**: Platform is built to handle multiple asset classes (equities, options, fixed-income, and expanding to futures, FX, etc.) on a unified system. - **API-First Design**: A modern API-first approach allows for seamless integration and automation for sophisticated clients. ## Strategic Focus - **Global Expansion**: Recently expanded into the Asia-Pacific region with the acquisition of Boom Securities and has a growing presence in Europe and the UK [clearstreet.io](https://www.clearstreet.io/news/blog/engineering-at-a-mission-driven-fintech). - **Product Expansion**: Continuously adding new asset classes and services to the platform, aiming to serve a wider variety of investor types. - **Talent Acquisition**: Actively hiring across engineering, trading, and corporate services to support rapid growth. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven**: Employees are united by a clear mission to modernize the financial ecosystem. This mission directly drives daily work and aligns business, operations, and technology goals [clearstreet.io](https://www.clearstreet.io/news/blog/engineering-at-a-mission-driven-fintech). - **High-Impact Engineering**: With 150+ engineers, the tech team is building core financial infrastructure from the ground up, offering the chance to work on complex, high-stakes problems. - **Culture & Values**: The company emphasizes integrity, thinking big, a competitive drive to win, client-centricity, and teamwork. It has been recognized as a "Best Place to Work" [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/careers). - **Global Presence with 18 Office Locations**: Employees can work from hubs in New York (HQ), London, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and many other cities across the US, Europe, and Asia [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/careers). - **Top Talent**: The company is composed of top talent from both Wall Street and Silicon Valley, creating a unique and high-performance environment [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/careers). ## Sources 1. [clearstreet.io - About](https://www.clearstreet.io/about) 2. [clearstreet.io - Homepage](https://clearstreet.io/) 3. [clearstreet.io - Careers](https://clearstreet.io/careers) 4. [LinkedIn - Clear Street](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clear-street) 5. 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