Director of Product Design, Foundations

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 seeking a Director of Product Design, Foundations to join our Product Design leadership team and lead some of our most critical areas of innovation—Design Systems, Core Experiences, and Platform Services—powering the next phase of growth. The leader will own systems, services, and AI foundations that connect our products, enable scale from solo practitioners to enterprise firms, and define how legal professionals work in an AI‑first world.

What you’ll work on

• Lead Multi‑Year Experience Strategy: define and drive high‑impact design strategies across a complex, multi‑product portfolio, translating ambitious 3+ year "North Star" visions into pragmatic roadmaps that harmonize short‑term impact with long‑term business growth.
• Steward Platform‑Level Systems Thinking: navigate the "platform vs. vertical" tension by managing platform‑wide patterns and cross‑cutting workflows (e.g., onboarding, notifications, permissions) across a range of firm roles to ensure a cohesive, integrated experience across products of varying maturity.
• Align Experience and Technical Architecture: partner deeply with engineering and product leaders to ensure experience strategy is harmonized with technical architecture, advocating for deep integration and an "anti‑hub" philosophy that favors organic product‑led growth over siloed UI solutions.
• Institutionalize Design Quality: contribute to and implement mechanisms for assessing, measuring, and scaling design quality, maintaining a high bar for craftsmanship across complex B2B data structures and multi‑user environments.
• Drive Organizational Clarity and Alignment: act as the primary bridge across initiative and product boundaries, fostering alignment between cross‑functional stakeholders to resolve ambiguity and ensure a unified ecosystem for firm roles and other parties.
• Cultivate High‑Performing Teams: build and mentor a world‑class design organization by investing in coaching, career development, and recruiting top‑tier talent capable of navigating enterprise‑grade architectural challenges.
• Champion the Strategic User Voice: influence product strategy at the highest levels by aligning customer‑centric research with business goals, ensuring the platform remains resilient and intuitive as it scales into new enterprise markets.
• Transform Organizational Operating Models: redesign how teams discover, validate, and deliver products in an AI‑enabled environment, embedding experimentation, automation, and learning into everyday workflows.

What you bring

• Evidence of applying AI to transform design craft as well as the design of user‑centered AI experiences, innovating across surfaces and interaction models.
• A service design mindset that brings together vertical‑specific requirements with platform‑level solutions that meet the needs of a range of user types and connect our products together.
• Customer‑centric to the core, weaving customer stories and evidence into strategies, design work, and storytelling as a result of regular customer learnings.
• Demonstrated experience establishing experimentation, learning, and validation systems, leveraging AI to accelerate insight generation and product iteration.
• Experience designing extensible platforms and ecosystems that enable internal and external teams to build safely on shared foundations.
• Deep Enterprise B2B experience, crafting experiences for highly technical end users across a multi‑stack technology platform.
• Demonstrated expertise as a leader of leaders, driving a team of designers to conceptualize, build, and scale experiences across complex ecosystems.
• Equally comfortable leading teams through big, complex platform‑level initiatives that touch multiple products and teams.
• Established track‑record of building and leading design efforts across surfaces, from setting strategies to delivering design solutions across touchpoints.
• Business acumen and ability to connect design strategy to business value.
• Ability to communicate complex subjects with clarity and impact to a variety of audiences.
• Strong leadership, partnering, and influencing skills.
• Ability to create solutions that scale across short‑ and long‑term customer and business goals simultaneously.
• High level of comfort working within a self‑directed culture and navigating ambiguity.
• Deep desire to help everyone—customers, stakeholders, and employees—do their best possible work.

Compensation and Benefits

• 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 minimum twice per week.
• $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 $199,300 to $299,100 CAD, with separate salary bands for other regions based on local currency. The role is eligible for variable pay based on company performance, with actual payout amounts calculated and paid quarterly.

Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility

We are committed to equal employment and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Our team shows up as their authentic selves, united by our mission, and is built on inclusion, value, and the ability to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We provide accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process and will work with candidates to meet their needs.

This role is a backfill for an existing position.