Staff People Business Partner

Role Overview

• 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 organizational decisions.
• Drive the People strategy for your client groups with a multi-year lens, connecting business trajectory, organizational 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 organizational effects of strategic decisions before leaders see them, and proactively shape plans accordingly.
• Lead complex, multi-phase organizational 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 organizational 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 organizational models in anticipation of growth, market shifts, or strategic pivots.
• Apply a systems-level lens to organizational challenges, identifying root causes and structural solutions rather than addressing symptoms in isolation.
• Provide deep, ongoing executive coaching to senior leaders up to and including VP and C-suite across Finance, Product, and Content on leadership effectiveness, team dynamics, stakeholder management, and organizational impact.
• Identify leadership development needs at the senior-most levels and create tailored, high-impact development plans in partnership with Talent Development.
• Lead or co-design senior leadership team effectiveness engagements, including offsites, team diagnostics, and sustained effectiveness programs.
• Advise on and lead sensitive, high-complexity, or high-risk employee relations matters across your client groups.
• Lead or oversee complex investigations, ensuring outcomes that are fair, legally sound, and consistent with Clio's values and obligations.
• Develop and champion ER frameworks, investigation standards, and escalation protocols that elevate practice quality across the People team.
• Shape the design and execution of Clio's most critical People programs.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive HR / People Business Partner experience, with a substantial portion at a senior or Staff-equivalent level supporting complex, cross-functional organizations, specifically Finance and Product/R&D.
• A demonstrated track record of advising senior executive leaders, ideally including C-suite, with confidence and impact in high-growth SaaS or technology companies.
• Deep expertise across the full spectrum of People practice: organizational design, executive coaching, ER and investigations, workforce planning, talent strategy, and performance management.
• Deep experience partnering across Finance and Product/R&D functions — with the ability to credibly speak each function's language and understand the distinct operating cadences of both.
• Superior knowledge of employment law across multiple jurisdictions, including cross-border and international employment contexts.
• Exceptional executive presence, communication, and influencing skills — you are equally credible in a boardroom, a sensitive employee conversation, and a People team workshop.
• A systems thinker who sees organizational dynamics holistically, not in siloed functional areas.
• Strong data fluency with the ability to translate complex people analytics into executive-level narrative and strategic recommendations.
• High tolerance for ambiguity and a proven ability to lead through organizational change and transformation.
• A collaborative, values-driven approach combined with the confidence to challenge, push back, and hold a point of view when it matters.
• Demonstrated interest in and application of AI tools to elevate People practice and personal productivity.

Benefits

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits
• Dental and vision insurance
• Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions 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