Staff People Business Partner

About the role

We're seeking a Staff People Business Partner to partner with Clio's Finance organization and key frontline leaders across Product (Product Management and Product Design) and Content. This role sits at the intersection of business strategy, operational execution, and team performance during a period of continued scale, maturity, and transformation. As a Staff level PBP, you are not simply executing People strategy, you are shaping it. You serve as a principal advisor to senior executive leaders across Finance, Product, and Content, influence Clio's People programmes at a company-wide level, and set the standard for what exceptional People partnership looks like. You bring a multi-year lens to organizational health, talent strategy, and business transformation, anticipating challenges before they surface and driving proactive, lasting solutions. This role is ideal for a seasoned People leader who has operated at the intersection of corporate and R&D functions, who speaks the language of Finance and Product fluently, and who brings enterprise-level thinking, executive presence, and deep practitioner craft to every engagement.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Partnership
• Serve as the principal People advisor to frontline and executive leaders across Finance, Product, and Content - operating as a true thought partner on the most consequential organizational decisions.
• Drive the People strategy for your client groups with a multi-year lens, connecting business trajectory, organizational health, and talent imperatives in a coherent, integrated plan.
• Influence company-wide People priorities by surfacing patterns, risks, and opportunities from across your groups - translating local insight into org-level recommendations.
• Anticipate second- and third-order organizational effects of strategic decisions before leaders see them, and proactively shape plans accordingly.
• Organizational Architecture & Transformation
• Lead complex, multi-phase organizational design efforts - including operating model transformation, large-scale restructures, and integration of newly formed or acquired teams across your client groups.
• Serve as the go-to expert on organizational architecture for Finance, Product, and Content - advising on spans and layers, structural interdependencies, and team operating norms at scale.
• Partner with leaders to define and 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 rather than addressing symptoms in isolation.
• Partner with Talent Management and TD&L to support leadership development, manager capability, and team effectiveness programmes.
• Executive Coaching & Leadership Development
• Provide deep, ongoing executive coaching to senior leaders up to and including VP and C-suite across Finance, Product, and Content on leadership effectiveness, team dynamics, stakeholder management, and organizational impact.
• Identify leadership development needs at the senior-most levels and create tailored, high-impact development plans in partnership with Talent Development.
• Lead

Requirements

• You are known for your strong judgment. You navigate the most complex organizational situations with clarity, calm, and principle. You are a trusted voice across both People and business leadership, and you elevate everyone around you.
• What Your Team Does
• Together, we help Clio build human and high-performing teams, and exceptional leaders.

Benefits

Additional Information

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 .

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