Senior Real Estate Manager

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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.

Real Estate Strategy & Portfolio Management

• Oversee Clio’s global real estate portfolio, ensuring the right locations, sizes, and configurations to support business growth.
• Conduct market research and comparative analyses to inform site selection, renewals, and restructuring.
• Track key lease metrics, critical dates, and occupancy trends to proactively anticipate upcoming decisions.
• Partner with Finance on real estate forecasting, scenario modeling, and long‑term footprint planning.

• Lead end‑to‑end lease transactions, including new site searches, renewals, renegotiations, expansions, and exits.
• Manage relationships with brokers, landlords, and external partners to ensure competitive terms and exceptional execution.
• Develop negotiation strategies that balance cost, flexibility, and business needs, serving as Clio’s primary negotiating voice.
• Coordinate with Legal on lease reviews, ensuring alignment with company standards and risk guidelines.
• Experience maintaining and growing relationships with landlords.

• Collaborate with senior leaders, including Finance, Legal, IT, and Workplace Experience, to align portfolio decisions with cultural, operational and strategic priorities.
• Provide real estate insights and recommendations to executive stakeholders in support of strategic planning and business cases.
• Ensure smooth execution of real estate decisions by partnering on moves, decommissions, or space adjustments as required (execution owned by Workplace Experience).
• Strong executive presence and presentation skills.

• Support Opex and Cap Ex planning related to real estate transactions, including rent projections and one‑time project costs.
• Develop and present business cases, financial comparisons, and ROI assessments for real estate decisions.
• Maintain real estate systems and documentation to ensure accuracy, transparency, and compliance.

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.

• 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.
• $2,000 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 $104,000 to $156,000 CAD. There are a separate set of salary bands for other regions based on local currency.

Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. 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.

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