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About the Role

Clio is seeking a Staff People Business Partner to lead People partnership across Clio's G&A function (Finance, People, and the Office of the CEO). This role serves as a principal advisor to C-suite leaders, influences company-wide People programs, and shapes the People strategy with a multi-year lens on organizational health, talent strategy, and business transformation.

Responsibilities

Serve as the principal People advisor to the CFO and CPO, acting as a thought partner on consequential organizational decisions.
Partner with the Office of the CEO on company-wide priorities, operating rhythm, and executive-level initiatives.
Drive the People strategy for Finance, People, and OCEO with a multi-year lens, integrating business trajectory, organizational health, and talent imperatives.
Influence company-wide People priorities by surfacing patterns, risks, and opportunities from client groups.
Anticipate and proactively shape plans for second- and third-order organizational effects of strategic decisions.
Prepare and support executives for board, audit committee, and leadership forums on people, organizational, or workforce topics.
Lead complex, multi-phase organizational design efforts, including operating model transformation and large-scale restructures.
Serve as the go-to expert on organizational architecture for G&A, advising on spans and layers, structural interdependencies, and team operating norms.
Partner with the CFO and CPO to design organizations that scale efficiently, balancing cost discipline with capability.
Partner with leaders to evolve their organizational models in anticipation of growth, market shifts, or strategic pivots.
Apply a systems-level lens to organizational challenges, identifying root causes and structural solutions.
Partner with Talent Management and TD&L to support leadership development, manager capability, and team effectiveness programs.
Provide deep, ongoing executive coaching to senior leaders on leadership effectiveness, team dynamics, stakeholder management, and organizational impact.
Coach and support the CFO's and CPO's leadership teams as teams, building shared operating norms and clarity of ownership.
Identify leadership development needs at the senior-most levels and create tailored development plans.
Lead or co-design senior leadership team effectiveness engagements.
Support succession conversations and contribute to executive talent assessments.
Model exceptional coaching for the broader PBP team.
Advise on and lead sensitive, high-complexity, or high-risk employee relations matters.
Lead or oversee complex investigations, ensuring fair and legally sound outcomes.
Handle matters involving senior leaders and executive conduct with exceptional discretion.
Partner closely with Legal Counsel on matters of significant organizational risk.
Develop and champion ER frameworks, investigation standards, and escalation protocols.
Maintain knowledge of employment law across all relevant jurisdictions.
Shape the design and execution of critical People programs: performance management, talent calibration, succession planning, and total rewards alignment.
Lead workforce planning for Finance, People, and OCEO, and partner with Finance leadership on headcount planning and financial cycles.
Serve as a key voice in talent reviews, contributing senior-level assessments of leader readiness and organizational capability gaps.
Translate executive-level strategy into talent implications, defining future capabilities, headcount, and structures.
Act as a senior practitioner role model within the PBP team, setting the bar for quality of thinking and execution.
Mentor and coach Senior and mid-level PBPs, developing the next generation of People partners.
Contribute to the evolution of the People operating model, identifying gaps and proposing improvements.
Drive consistency in practice quality across the PBP team through playbooks, standards, and shared tools.
Serve as a connector between the People team and the business, translating leader needs into team capability investments.
Use people data with sophistication, moving beyond descriptive analytics to predictive insight.
Synthesize multi-source data to construct a full picture of organizational health.
Partner with Finance and People Analytics to connect people data to financial and operational metrics.
Develop and present executive-ready people insights that influence business strategy.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive HR / People Business Partner experience, with a substantial portion at a senior or Staff-equivalent level supporting complex, cross-functional organizations, specifically G&A or corporate functions such as Finance.
Demonstrated track record of advising C-suite leaders directly, with confidence and impact, in high-growth SaaS or technology companies.
Deep expertise across the full spectrum of People practice: organizational design, executive coaching, ER and investigations, workforce planning, talent strategy, and performance management.
Strong business and financial literacy, understanding budgets, headcount plans, and planning cycles.
Judgment and self-awareness to partner the People function itself: peer-level credibility with fellow People leaders, clear boundaries with CoEs, and candour to challenge own function.
Superior knowledge of employment law across multiple jurisdictions, including cross-border and international employment contexts.
Exceptional executive presence, communication, and influencing skills.
Proven discretion in handling highly confidential executive, organizational, and board-adjacent matters.
Systems thinker who sees organizational dynamics holistically.
Strong data fluency with the ability to translate complex people analytics into executive-level narrative and strategic recommendations.
High tolerance for ambiguity and proven ability to lead through organizational change and transformation.
Collaborative, values-driven approach combined with the confidence to challenge and hold a point of view.
Demonstrated interest in and application of AI tools to elevate People practice and personal productivity.
Background supporting companies through major inflection points (pre-IPO scaling, post-merger integration, international expansion, significant workforce transformation).
Experience aligning workforce planning with financial planning cycles in a disciplined, high-growth environment.
Experience supporting an Office of the CEO, Chief of Staff function, or corporate strategy team.
Experience partnering the People function itself as a client group.
Experience building and scaling People practices across multiple geographies and employment jurisdictions simultaneously.
Background supporting G&A or corporate functions in a pre-IPO SaaS or technology company.

Skills

Organizational Design
Executive Coaching
Employee Relations
Investigations
Workforce Planning
Talent Strategy
Performance Management
Business Acumen
Financial Literacy
Executive Presence
Communication
Influencing
Discretion
Systems Thinking
Data Fluency
AI Tools

Location

Vancouver
Calgary
Toronto
Dublin
London
New York City
Sydney

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Staff-level
Senior-level
10+ years experience

Salary/Compensations

$122,800 to $184,200 CAD

Benefits

Competitive, equitable salary
Top-tier health benefits
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Flexible time off policy (encouraged 20 days off per year)
$2000 annual counseling benefit
RRSP matching
RESP contribution
Clioversary recognition program

About the Company

Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely.
We are transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.
We're a Human and High Performing AI company, meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our operations.

Equal Opportunity

We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion.
We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation.
We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.