Senior Product Designer, Platform

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.

Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Product Designer to join our growing Product Design team. This role is available to candidates across US and Canada, excluding Quebec. If you are local to one of our hubs (Burnaby, Calgary, or Toronto) you will be expected to be in office minimum once per week on one of our Anchor Days.

What your team does

Design plays an integral role at Clio, making up one of the three pillars of our Research and Development organization alongside Product Management and Engineering. Product designers directly engage in researching the behaviours and needs of our users. They act as user experience champions as we work to transform the way lawyers and their staff provide services to their clients. If you’re focused on shipping value to customers with an opportunity to revolutionize an industry, you’ve found your next team.

Our Platform team is working hard to build the critical foundational systems and features that enable all of Clio to deliver value to our customers. We are in the process of seamlessly integrating our products so that users and their data flow through our system without friction.

This role will be part of the platform team that is responsible for unifying core experiences across all of our product surfaces.

What you’ll do

• Develop and design concepts, prototypes, hi-fidelity mockups and present solutions that solve both business and user problems and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Work alongside product management and engineering to understand the right problems to solve, and find the right solutions to them.
• Be able to craft a compelling vision with engaging storytelling to drive excitement and alignment for the impact the vision can deliver.
• Coordinate and collaborate with multiple stakeholder teams to unify different experiences in separate products into a single cohesive one.
• Be able to articulate the rationale behind your design decisions, and be able to ask difficult questions and challenge assumptions.
• Coach and mentor fellow designers on a range of design practices.
• Provide thoughtful feedback in team critiques.
• Break down complex concepts into smaller, more manageable pieces.
• Write research plans and conduct user research interviews, usability testing, and analysis.
• Leverage product data and metrics to drive design decisions and measure product success.

What you’ll bring

• Excellent communication and engaging storytelling skills.
• 5+ years experience in Product Design, UX Design, or related discipline. SaaS experience is a bonus.
• Experience as an interactive designer with product experience. SaaS experience is a bonus.
• A track record of successfully shipping products, solving customer problems and moving company metrics, and delivering incremental value with velocity.
• Deep understanding of good user experience, IA, and visual design.
• Expertise in modern design and prototyping tools, and practical fluency with AI tools in your workflow (e.g., Figma Make, Cursor, Claude, etc.)
• A strong understanding of web technologies.
• A design degree or relevant experience with platform and/or application design.
• Humility plus strong opinions that are loosely held.

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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, London, New York City 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 $131,600 to $178,000 CAD. Initial placement within the range is informed by geographic region, experience, and skillset, with room to progress as impact and tenure grow. Final offer amounts will vary based on candidate profile.

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

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.

Learn more about our culture at clio.com/careers

We're a Human and High Performing AI company, meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our operations. In recruitment, AI helps us streamline the process for greater efficiency. However, we've built our systems to ensure that a human always reviews AI-generated output, and we never make automated hiring decisions.

Disclaimer: We only communicate with candidates through official @clio.com email addresses.

About Clio

Clio is on a mission to transform the legal experience for all.

Clio is the global leader in legal AI, building the platform that powers the future of legal work. With the scale, data, and ambition to redefine how the legal industry operates, we are advancing a comprehensive strategy that spans the full lifecycle of legal work—from knowledge and insight to execution and outcomes.

At the center of this vision is the Intelligent Legal Work Platform, the legal industry’s first System of Action. By combining Clio’s core product suite with Clio Work and AI-native capabilities, the platform turns information into insight and insight into action. As we expand into the enterprise, Clio for Enterprise extends this foundation to support the complexity, scale, and operational rigor of global organizations through solutions like Clio Operate and Vincent by Clio. Backed by industry-leading data and intelligence, Clio is building the infrastructure that enables legal teams to operate with greater speed, confidence, and impact.

Clio’s leadership and momentum have been recognized globally. In 2022, we achieved Centaur status, a milestone reached by fewer than 200 private SaaS companies worldwide. We are a proud honoree of the Forbes Cloud 100 and Fortune’s Future 50, have been named Innovator of the Year, and are a Platinum Club member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. We are consistently recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers and a Top Employer for Young People, with our international offices also earning placements on Great Place to Work’s Best Workplaces lists.

Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, Clio has grown to more than 2,000 employees across offices in Toronto, Calgary, Dublin, Manchester, Sydney, Barcelona, and Bogotá—bringing together diverse perspectives to solve one of the world’s most complex and impactful professional challenges.

Join Clio and help define the future of legal work through AI.
Learn more at clio.com/careers.