Staff People Business Partner

Join Clio, a leading legal technology company, as a Staff People Business Partner. In this role, you will partner with key leaders across Finance, Product, and Content, shaping and executing People strategy at a company-wide level. You will drive organizational design efforts, provide executive coaching, and lead complex employee relations matters. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on Clio's growth and success.

• 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrated interest in and application of AI tools to elevate People practice and personal productivity
• Exceptional executive presence, communication, and influencing skills — you are equally credible in a boardroom, a sensitive employee conversation, and a People team workshop
• A collaborative, values-driven approach combined with the confidence to challenge, push back, and hold a point of view when it matters
• 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
• Deep expertise across the full spectrum of People practice: organizational design, executive coaching, ER and investigations, workforce planning, talent strategy, and performance management
• You understand how Finance enables scale, discipline, and financial accountability, and how Product and Content leaders define strategy, prioritize, and deliver. You move fluidly between these contexts, building trusted relationships at all levels while holding the organizational People perspective
• 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 organizational insight and business impact
• A systems thinker who sees organizational dynamics holistically, not in siloed functional areas
• 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
• You bring a multi-year lens to organizational health, talent strategy, and business transformation, anticipating challenges before they surface and driving proactive, lasting solutions
• Superior knowledge of employment law across multiple jurisdictions, including cross-border and international employment contexts
• A demonstrated track record of advising senior executive leaders, ideally including C-suite, with confidence and impact in high-growth SaaS or technology companies
• High tolerance for ambiguity and a proven ability to lead through organizational change and transformation
• You are a senior-level People partner who operates seamlessly between the strategic and the structural — capable of shaping system-level organizational thinking while remaining grounded in the realities of execution
• 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
• You are known for your strong judgment. You navigate the most complex organizational situations with clarity, calm, and principle. You are a trusted voice across both People and business leadership, and you elevate everyone around you
• Strong data fluency with the ability to translate complex people analytics into executive-level narrative and strategic recommendations
• Background supporting companies through major inflection points — pre-IPO scaling, post-merger integration, international expansion, or significant workforce transformation
• Experience aligning workforce planning with financial planning cycles in a disciplined, high-growth environment
• Experience building and scaling People practices across multiple geographies and employment jurisdictions simultaneously
• Background supporting Finance and/or Product and Engineering functions in a pre-IPO SaaS or technology company