Business Partner

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 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 organisational 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.

You are a senior-level People partner who operates seamlessly between the strategic and the structural — capable of shaping system-level organisational thinking while remaining grounded in the realities of execution. You have a proven track record of advising executive and front‑line leaders with confidence, and you bring a point of view that goes beyond process and compliance to genuine organisational insight and business impact.

You understand how Finance enables scale, discipline, and financial accountability, and how Product and Content leaders define strategy, prioritise, and deliver. You move fluidly between these contexts, building trusted relationships at all levels while holding the organisational People perspective.

You are known for your robust judgement. You navigate the most complex organisational situations with clarity, calm, and principle. You are a trusted voice across both People and business leadership, and you elevate everyone around you.

The People Business Partner team at Clio is responsible for enabling leaders and teams to do their best work while ensuring Clio scales sustainably, equitably, and compliantly. PBPs partner closely with leaders, People Centres of Excellence (Talent, Total Rewards, TD&L, People Ops), and cross‑functional teams to deliver thoughtful, data‑driven people solutions that align with Clio's business strategy and values.

Together, we help Clio build human and high‑performing teams, and exceptional leaders.

• 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 organisational decisions.
• Drive the People strategy for your client groups with a multi‑year lens, connecting business trajectory, organisational 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 organisational effects of strategic decisions before leaders see them, and proactively shape plans accordingly.

• Lead complex, multi‑phase organisational 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 organisational 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…