VP, People Business Partners & Talent Development

Clio; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 209,400 - 389,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-tier health benefits

Hybrid work environment

$2,000 annual counseling benefit

RRSP matching and RESP contribution

Clioversary recognition program

Job summary

A leading legal tech company in New York is seeking a VP, People Business Partners & Talent Development. This role focuses on operationalizing company culture and ensuring a strategic partnership with departments for talent growth. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in People Leadership within high-growth environments, particularly in SaaS. Responsibilities include integrating talent strategies and overseeing executive succession planning. The position offers a hybrid work environment with a competitive compensation package and various benefits.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of People Leadership experience in high-growth teams.
• Understanding of SaaS business metrics and their impact on talent strategy.
• Proven experience in guiding large-scale organizational shifts, including M&A.

Responsibilities

• Integrate Talent & Growth across PBP and L&D functions.
• Lead executive succession planning and organizational design.
• Oversee AI-augmented learning environments and personal growth pathways.
• Refine performance management philosophy toward continuous feedback.
• Ensure cohesive people strategy across global operations.

Skills

People Leadership

SaaS Metrics

Change Management

Executive Presence

Product Mindset

Bias for Action

Job description

Summary

As the VP, People Business Partners & Talent Development, your role is to ensure our human and high-performing culture is embedded in everything we do, throughout the duration of the end-to-end employee experience. You will operationalize the culture and continually strengthen it. In this role, you’ll oversee two critical functions: the People Business Partner (PBP) team and the Learning & Development (L&D) team.

You are the architect of our talent density strategy. You will ensure that every department at Clio has the strategic talent partnership it needs to scale, and that every Clion has a world-class learning ecosystem to do their best work. You will report directly to the Chief People Officer and serve as a key advisor to our executive leadership team.

Who You Are

• The Strategic Architect: You don't just solve today’s problems; you build systems that work for 2,000+ Clions globally. You think in terms of organizational design and long-term talent health.
• A High-Stakes Coach: You are comfortable sitting across from C-suite executives, communicating with "radical candor" with deep empathy, and helping them navigate complex organizational shifts.
• A Lifelong Learner: You are obsessed with how humans grow. You understand that L&D is our competitive advantage that must be woven into the fabric of the daily workflow.
• Data-Informed, Human-First: You use people analytics to find the "why" behind retention and performance trends, but you never lose sight of the individual human experience.
• The Culture Guardian: you live and breathe Clio’s values. You lead by example and ensure our "Human-First" philosophy remains operationalized as we scale globally.

What Your Team Does

• Your organization is the heartbeat of the Clio employee experience.
• The PBP Team: Acts as the strategic engine for our business units. They partner with leaders on workforce planning, org design, and high-level talent strategy to ensure our teams are optimized for growth. The PBP team partners across the different disciplines on the People team to inform the employee experience and ensure all of our programs reflect Clio’s Human and High-Performing culture.
• The L&D Team: Designs and delivers the Clio learning experience. They own everything from world-class onboarding and leadership development to technical upskilling, ensuring that "growing at Clio" is a tangible reality for every employee.

What You’ll Work On

• Integrating Talent & Growth: You will unify the PBP and L&D functions so that performance gaps identified by PBPs are solved by targeted, agile learning interventions from the L&D team.
• Executive Succession & Org Design: You’ll lead the strategy for how we identify, develop, and transition our top leadership talent to meet the needs of a multi-product, global SaaS company.
• The Future of Learning & Talent Development: You will oversee the transition to an AI-augmented learning environment, personalizing growth paths for Clions at scale.
• High-Performance: You’ll refine our performance management philosophy, moving us toward a model of continuous feedback and transparent career mobility.
• Global Scaling: As we expand, you will ensure our people strategy remains cohesive across different time zones, cultures, and legal jurisdictions.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of People Leadership: Significant experience leading high-growth People teams, with a deep background in both the Business Partner and Learning/Talent Development worlds.
• SaaS Savvy: You understand the metrics of a successful software business (ARR, Churn, LTV) and how talent strategy directly impacts those levers.
• Change Management Mastery: A proven track record of guiding large-scale organizational shifts, including M&A integrations or major department re-orgs.
• Executive Presence: The ability to influence, challenge, and support a high-velocity executive team.
• A Product Mindset: Experience building internal people programs with the same rigor and iteration as a customer-facing software product.
• Bias for action and a commitment to fostering high-performing teams.

This role is a backfill for an existing position.

Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is $209,400 to $299,200 to $389,000 CAD. There are separate salary bands for other regions based on local currency. In addition, this role is eligible for variable pay that is based on company performance, with actual payout amounts calculated and paid on a quarterly basis.

Our salary bands are designed to reflect the range of skills and experience needed for the position and to allow room for growth at Clio. For experienced individuals, we typically hire at or around the midpoint of the band. The top portion of the salary band is reserved for employees who demonstrate sustained high performance and impact at Clio. Those who are new to the role may join below the midpoint and develop their skills over time. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on geographical region, applicable experience, and skill set of the candidate.

Total Rewards Highlights

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance.
• Hybrid work environment, with an expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin, and Sydney) to be in the 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.

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

Our team shows up as their authentic selves and is 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 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.

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