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Clara is Latin America's leading platform for corporate payments, serving 50,000+ businesses with corporate cards, bill pay, financing, and B2B payments. The company was named the region's fastest-growing by the Financial Times in 2025 and is backed by top-tier investors including Coatue, Kaszek, DST Global, and Goldman Sachs.
As a Product Designer for Design Systems, you will own Prism, Clara's design system—the foundations, tokens, components, patterns, and guidance that enable designers, engineers, PMs, and AI agents to ship consistent, high-quality products. This is a hands-on builder role reporting to the Head of Design.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own Prism's design on web and mobile: foundations, tokens, components, and patterns, working closely with engineers who maintain the library.
- Translate Clara's design principles into actionable guidance on pattern usage, user context, and rationale for both human teams and AI agents.
- Define the mobile pattern layer, deciding where to follow platform conventions and where Clara should diverge.
- Scale the agentic layer by extending skills, context files, and agent workflows so any team member can move from idea to on-system UI and pull requests.
- Establish quality standards through evals and automated checks covering accessibility, visual regression, and token compliance.
- Use AI models to benchmark Prism against leading design systems and close identified gaps.
- Operate the system as a product: manage contributions, versioning, releases, and decide what becomes a system pattern, what stays local, and what gets deprecated.
- Measure adoption and speed; remove friction that slows product teams.
This role is hybrid across Bogotá, Mexico City, and São Paulo. The company operates with flexible office expectations—you'll spend time in the office naturally and during ramp-up or when your leader requests it.
Requirements:
- 5+ years in product design, including building and driving adoption of a design system. You can demonstrate both the architecture and measurable results.
- Senior judgment on system decisions: you have made calls affecting multiple teams and can articulate trade-offs.
- Strong design craft with the ability to recognize when on-system work still falls short of quality standards.
- Daily work with AI tools (Claude Code, Codex, etc.): you can make changes in component codebases and open pull requests that engineers would take seriously.
- Experience building AI tooling that others rely on: agents, skills, evals, or multi-step workflows—not just prompts.
- Deep knowledge of Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and Material Design, with experience defining patterns for native apps.
- Operations mindset: process, metrics, governance, and documentation.
- Professional English proficiency for presentations, facilitation, and documentation.
Nice-to-haves:
- Fintech or B2B product experience with complex, data-heavy UI.
- Multi-brand or multi-market design systems, including localization.
- Led or supported a component library migration.
- Basic Swift or Kotlin for prototyping and implementation review.
- CI, GitHub Actions, or visual regression tooling experience.
