Product manager in legal tech

Clio; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Pension contribution

Flexible time off

Health benefits

Job summary

Clio is seeking a Senior Product Manager for France Market Expansion to lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for entering the French market. You will own the end-to-end product experience for France, including localization, regulatory compliance, and cross-functional delivery across time zones.

You will collaborate with Legal, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Sales to translate complex French regulatory needs into actionable product requirements and ship outcomes that drive business success

Qualifications

• Fluency in French and English required.
• 4–5 years of product management experience.
• Strong knowledge of the French legal market and regulatory requirements.
• Proven track record of end-to-end product ownership in SaaS environments.
• Expertise in localization and multilingual product development.

Responsibilities

• Own France portfolio and customer experience end-to-end.
• Develop roadmap aligned with strategy and leadership expectations.
• Localize features for France, ensure regulatory compliance and local workflows.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams across time zones and cultures.
• Translate regulatory constraints into actionable product requirements.

Skills

Fluency in French

Fluency in English

Product management

Localization/i18n

SaaS experience

Multilingual product development

Job description

Описание:

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. As the Senior Product Manager for France Market Expansion at Clio, you will lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap execution of solutions that help Clio successfully expand into the French market.

Задачи:

You own Clio's product portfolio and customer experience in France end to end, from first touch through onboarding, daily practice management, billing, and support. Where a gap sits in a product another team owns, you own getting it closed. You are accountable for the quality of Clio's customer experience in France as a whole, rather than for a single feature area. You maintain a single, current view of what breaks today, what is missing, and what we have committed for France, and you make that view legible to leadership before leadership asks for it. Working from the overarching strategy set by your Senior Director, Product Management, you will develop a roadmap in conjunction with your peers that moves our business forward, and evangelize it throughout the company. You will own the delivery of features in the roadmap while also ensuring they deliver on the desired business outcome. Drive product readiness for the French market, including localization, multi-lingual support, regulatory requirements, and market-specific workflows. You set a clear vision for what Clio looks like in France, then ship toward it in weeks rather than quarters. You will make decisions with imperfect information, put something in front of customers, and correct from what you learn. You parallelize. When a workstream can run alongside another, you run it alongside, and you say what serializing would cost in weeks when you choose to serialize. You understand how lawyers in France actually work: how French civil law shapes a firm's structure, how matters progress through the local courts, how the profession sets and regulates fees, what the Conseil National des Barreaux and the local Ordres require of a practitioner, and where local practice diverges from common law practice. You track the regulatory surface that touches our product, including French electronic invoicing under the Factur-X and PDP regime, TVA, and Conseil National des Barreaux professional rules, and you translate it into requirements our central teams can build against. You build and maintain direct relationships with practitioners, bar associations, and local partners, and you serve as the company's source of truth on what the French legal profession needs. You can read and reason about how we built our platform: where our data models carry a country assumption, how the model represents currency, tax, payments, and locale, and what a change to one of those costs downstream. You can hold a design discussion with engineering about cardinality, extensibility, and migration, and leave with a shared decision. You can tell a problem that needs a local configuration from a problem that needs a platform capability, and you argue for the platform capability when it is the right answer. You work AI-first by default. You use AI for customer research synthesis, competitive and regulatory analysis, requirements drafting, data querying, and prototyping, and you can show how it changed your throughput. You build your own working systems. You are comfortable writing prompts, chaining tools, and standing up a lightweight agent or script to remove repetitive work from your week. You bring judgment to it. You know which AI output needs verification against a primary source, particularly on regulatory and legal questions, and you verify it. You will build the business case in the currency that team's leadership measures it on, name the tradeoff you are asking them to make, and find the version of the ask that serves their goal alongside yours. You escape on a stated trigger rather than on frustration. When merit alone does not win the ask, you bring your Senior Director a clear recommendation and the cost of inaction. Partner closely with cross-functional leaders across Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Legal, and Operations to support the French market launch and growth. Manage stakeholder relationships across a matrixed organization with clarity and diplomacy.

Требования:

• Fluency in French and in English. Clio operates in English, so English fluency is a requirement of the role rather than a preference.
• 4-5 years of experience in product management
• Working knowledge of the French legal market, including French civil law, how local firms operate, and the regulatory requirements that apply to them
• Proven track record of independently taking multiple products or features from ideation to launch in a SaaS environment
• Experience owning a product area end to end, including outcomes that depended on teams outside your own
• Demonstrated expertise in localization and multi-lingual product development. This is a core requirement for the role.
• Experience building or managing multilingual applications or internationalization projects, and expanding products to other countries and languages
• Technical fluency sufficient to reason about system design, data models, and platform tradeoffs with engineering
• A demonstrated AI-native working style, with specific examples of how you use AI in your product practice
• Evidence of winning roadmap commitments from teams that do not report to you and that carry no accountability for your outcome
• Exceptional attention to detail, so that no requirement or specification slips through the product development cycle
• Outstanding organizational skills, capable of managing multiple priorities simultaneously without compromising quality or timelines
• Experience using data to inform decisions without succumbing to analysis paralysis
• Genuine ability to put yourself in our customers' shoes and operate from a place of empathy
• Experience working across time zones and cultures, with a customer-first approach
• An entrepreneurial mindset with comfort operating in ambiguity
• At least 2 or 3 failures under your belt, the learnings of which you can bring to Clio
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative team without ego
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Будет плюсом:

• Have prior experience in legal tech, or a strong understanding of the legal services market, including familiarity with legal practice management software and the needs of legal professionals; Have worked directly with Conseil National des Barreaux and the local Ordres or comparable professional bodies; Worked previously in a regulated industry or with multi-product ecosystems; Have shipped against a regulatory deadline in France or another EU market; Successfully launched products in global markets; Have a track record of breaking down objectives into initiatives and delivering to customers at scale; Have built internal tooling or agents to support your own product practice; Demonstrable experience self-serving answers, insights, and data from a variety of data analytics tools

Условия:

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits and dental coverage
• Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office minimum twice per week.
• Flexible time off policy
• Pension contribution
• Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years

The expected salary range for this role is €90,200 to €122,000 EUR.