Clio

Staff Product Designer, Automations

Clio$148K — $222K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of Product Design experience, preferably in B2B SaaS.
  • Proven ability to design scalable experiences for various customer segments (e.g., Solo, SMB, Mid-Market).
  • Experience leading complex, cross-team initiatives to deliver cohesive solutions.
  • Strong product judgment and business acumen linking customer needs with strategy and metrics.
  • Expertise in design tools and methods, with practical experience in AI-powered design.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Product and Engineering to define the experience strategy and success metrics.
  • Translate complex customer workflows into clear design direction and decisions.
  • Lead end-to-end design from discovery and prototyping to execution.
  • Shape a long-term vision for customer experiences through storytelling and collaboration.
  • Champion high-quality and accessible experiences that exceed baseline expectations.
  • Strengthen design patterns and frameworks to ensure consistency across teams.
  • Mentor and elevate fellow designers through constructive feedback and coaching.

Benefits

  • Competitive health benefits, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Hybrid work environment with in-office expectations for local employees.
  • Flexible time off policy encouraging a minimum of 20 days off annually.
  • $2000 annual counseling benefit available.
  • RRSP matching and RESP contributions for retirement planning.
Full Job Description
Summary:

We are seeking a Staff Product Designer to join our growing Product Design team. This role is available to candidates Toronto, Remote Canada, and Remote USA. If you are located near our Toronto downtown hub, you will be expected to work in the office a minimum of twice per week on our designated Anchor Days.

Design plays a pivotal role at Clio, standing alongside Product and Engineering as one of the three pillars of our Research and Development organization. Our product designers work directly with customers to understand their behaviors, needs, and workflows. They champion thoughtful, high-quality experiences as we transform how lawyers and their teams serve their clients. If you're focused on shipping value to customers with an opportunity to revolutionize an industry, you've found your next team.

About the role

The Clio Manage team is a group of customer-first, system thinkers dedicated to removing administrative friction from legal practice management with AI-powered cloud services. We are on a mission to make law firms more efficient, our product experiences more crafted and legal services more accessible to millions of everyday people.

As a Staff Product Designer, you will partner with Design teams, Product Managers and Engineering to create long term visions and execute near term roadmaps for Clio Manage. You will bring a cross-product point-of-view across Clio to build Manage toward a system of capabilities (instead of individual features) so Clio Manage scale with our rapidly expanding product offerings and 3rd party services. You will help create a set of best practices of how AI should be designed in Manage, so they leverage our market-leading AI platform for legal while ensuring ease-of-use and trustworthiness in legal domains. You'll lead strategy and end-to-end experience design across a complex product area - from discovery and opportunity framing through launch and iteration. Ideal candidates thrive in ambiguity, turning deep customer understanding into clear direction, cohesive experiences, and measurable outcomes. You'll partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders to set vision, raise the quality bar, and elevate other designers, including shaping AI experiences that are trustworthy, explainable, and appropriately controlled.

What you'll do
  • Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define experience strategy, success metrics, and high-leverage priorities, grounded in customer insights and business outcomes.
  • Build deep customer intuition and systems understanding, translating complex workflows and constraints into clear direction and durable experience decisions.
  • Lead end-to-end design across multi-surface journeys - from opportunity framing and to prototyping, validation, and high-quality execution.
  • Shape a compelling long-term experience vision for your problem space, bringing others along through storytelling and collaboration thinking.
  • Raise the quality bar across a broader product ecosystem through cohesive, accessible, and scalable experiences that push beyond "good enough."
  • Drive consistency and leverage across teams by strengthening patterns, frameworks, and design system evolution beyond your immediate scope.
  • Help teams navigate ambiguity and make strong decisions through facilitation, decision framing, and proactive cross-functional collaboration.
  • Mentor and elevate other designers through constructive critique, coaching, and role-modelling strategic thinking and bar-raising craft.
  • Partner with the product design manager of your portfolio to uphold the quality and craft of design in your product area.
  • Contribute to design culture and org-wide initiatives through Staff-level forums and leadership beyond your immediate portfolio.


What you bring
  • 8+ years of Product Design experience, B2B SaaS experience is preferred, but not required.
  • Proven ability to design scalable experiences across multiple customer segments and/or products (e.g., Solo, SMB, and Mid-Market).
  • Experience leading complex, cross-team initiatives and delivering cohesive solutions across interconnected systems.
  • Proven track record of shipping high-quality work that solves customer problems and moves key product metrics.
  • Strong product judgment and business acumen - able to connect customer needs to strategy, metrics, and roadmap decisions.
  • Deep mastery of UX craft, including complex interaction design, information architecture, usability, and visual design.
  • Advanced customer-centric practice, able to lead discovery and align multiple teams around customer needs and opportunities.
  • Proven experience designing AI-powered experiences, including interaction patterns for trust, transparency, and appropriate user control across complex workflows.
  • Proven systems thinking - able to design reusable frameworks and patterns that scale across teams and products.
  • Expertise in modern design and prototyping tools, and practical fluency with AI tools in your workflow (e.g., Figma Make, Cursor, Gemini, etc.)
  • Excellent presentation and storytelling skills.
  • Skilled facilitator who aligns leaders, drives decisions, and moves teams forward through ambiguity.
  • Strong cross-functional partner who drives execution across teams and workstreams.
  • Experience mentoring peers.
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 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 $148,000 to $185,000 to $222,000 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.
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Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
2008

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