Clio

Senior Product Manager, Legal

Clio$137K — $186K *
US-Anywhere
+ 2 other locationsRemote
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of product management experience in the legal tech space or a related field
  • Proven experience launching products from ideation to market
  • Strong entrepreneurial mindset with proactive ownership
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous situations and exhibit strong problem-solving skills
  • Experience connecting workflows, tools, and customer needs with business outcomes
  • Legal expertise or direct industry experience preferred

Responsibilities

  • Drive product vision and strategy for Clio's document drafting workflows
  • Collaborate with developers and designers to enhance customer workflows
  • Conduct customer and market research to identify product opportunities
  • Engage with customers to understand their needs and improve user experience
  • Lead efforts to unite horizontal workflows with engineering teams
  • Serve as the liaison for partnerships, ensuring seamless integrations

Benefits

  • Top-tier health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Hybrid work environment with in-office expectations
  • Flexible time off with a minimum of 20 days per year
  • Annual $2000 counseling benefit
  • RRSP matching and RESP contributions
  • Clioversary recognition program for long-term employees
Full Job Description
Summary:

We are currently seeking a Senior Product Manager (Ex-lawyers & paralegals)), Legal to join our Clio Work Team. This role will be based out of one of our Canadian hubs (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto) in a hybrid capacity. Or remotely across Canada and/or the United states.

What your team does:

Document and legal related workflows are mission critical for any legal practice. Our customers generate, receive and review millions of documents every year. The entire justice system functions through the flow and exchange of documents. Lawyers Our customers need efficient and reliable ways to generate and review a wide variety of documents and automate repetitive drafting at scale.

You will drive the product vision, strategy and roadmap execution for Clio's drafting workflows - spanning how customers discover, adopt, and automate their document drafting workflows within Clio Work critical aspect of our Clio Work product globally. We also care deeply about how customers first experience these features - reducing friction so that lawyers can reach value quickly and build lasting habits.

You will also be responsible for coordinating with key stakeholders across the product ecosystem to enable powerful horizontal workflows. This is a key area of investment for Clio and a cornerstone of our future growth.

As the successful candidate, we will rely on your tried, tested and well-honed product management skills to shape the trajectory of new products and features, as well as integrations with external products and partners. You will be responsible for driving the success of the product, from concept to delivery, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of legal professionals while maintaining a competitive edge in the market.

What you'll work on:
  • Product Leadership + Execution: In collaboration with your Developer and Designer counterparts (your triad) you will drive successful outcomes for customers. Working from the overarching strategy set by leadership you will build products and features that make our customers' workflows more efficient and productive. You will be responsible for establishing key outcomes and metrics to drive our vision and mission. You are able to operate successfully in a rapidly changing dynamic environment.
  • Cutting edge technology: You will envision how to leverage AI to radically improve the practice of law.
  • Strategy and Prioritization: You will drive customer and market research, identify opportunities in the Clio Work space, develop unbiased business cases and determine priorities that deliver significant impact for our customers and our business. You will build conviction in the initiatives that you chose to invest in and be willing to pivot when priorities change or new information comes to light.
  • Market and Customer Understanding: We truly believe that the success of our customers comes first so we have high expectations for Product Managers to be the expert on the user. As such, the candidate is expected to develop strong relationships with our customers and to be engaged in constant communication with customers (existing, churned and prospect), as well as a deep understanding of the markets in which we operate will be expected.
  • Systems Integration: In partnership with Engineering, you will drive the unification of horizontal workflows.
  • Partnerships: You'll act as the product liaison for partnerships, focusing on the technical complexities and user experience considerations that come with integrating third-party services.


What you bring:
  • Proven track record of having independently taken multiple products or features from ideation to a successful launch and landing.
  • Show a strong track record of meaningful accomplishments, even outside traditional work experience.
  • Operate with an entrepreneurial mindset; proactive, resourceful, and naturally take ownership.
  • Demonstrate strong curiosity and self-reliance; able to figure things out independently in ambiguous situations.
  • Think holistically about product, from user experience to pricing and internal tooling. Experience thinking about the full customer journey, from first use through habitual adoption.
  • Apply systems thinking to connect workflows, tools, customer needs, and business outcomes.
  • Design and document key workflows, especially where documents and structured processes are involved.
  • Thrive in stretch roles and have successfully stepped up into more senior responsibilities.


Bonus points if you have:
  • Founder or Co-Founder experience.
  • Legal expertise or experience working in the legal industry
  • Adjacent experience with other judicial solutions that complement your legal subject matter expertise (experience working with or for legal providers)
  • Experience with AI-assisted document automation
  • Knowledge of document standards, especially in the legal industry (ex. ISO).
  • Successfully launched products in global markets
  • A number of failures under your belt, the learnings of which you can bring to Clio.
  • Have the ability to foster strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels within the organization.
  • Have a track record of breaking down objectives into initiatives and delivering to customers at scale.
  • Demonstrable experience self-serving answers, insights and data from a variety of data analytics tools.


This role is a backfill for an existing position.
What you will find here:

Compensation is one of the main components of Clio's Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.

Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include:
  • Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance
  • Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin, London, New York City and Sydney) to be in office min. twice per week.
  • Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.
  • $2000 annual counseling benefit
  • RRSP matching and RESP contribution
  • Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years


The expected salary range* for this role is $137,500 to $161,800 to $186,100 CAD. There are a separate set of salary bands for other regions based on local currency.

*Our salary bands are designed to reflect the range of skills and experience needed for the position and to allow room for growth at Clio. For experienced individuals, we typically hire at or around the midpoint of the band. The top portion of the salary band is reserved for employees who demonstrate sustained high performance and impact at Clio. Those who are new to the role may join below the midpoint and develop their skills over time. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on geographical region, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

About Clio

Clio is a cloud-based legal practice management software company based in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. The company was founded in 2008 by Jack Newton and Rian Gauvreau. Clio's software allows law firms to manage their cases, documents, billing, and client information from a single platform. The company has over 150,000 customers in 100 countries. Clio has won numerous awards for its software, including the 2019 Legaltech News Innovation Award for Best Practice Management Software.
Learn more about Clio
Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
2008

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