Staff Product Designer, Design Systems
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About the Role
Clio seeks a Staff Product Designer to own the vision and evolution of its design system in an AI-first era. You will drive frameworks, patterns, and standards for agentic product experiences.
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Responsibilities
- Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define experience strategy, success metrics, and high leverage priorities
- Build deep customer intuition and systems understanding, translating complex workflows into clear direction
- Lead end to end design across multi surface journeys from opportunity framing to prototyping, validation, and execution
- Shape compelling long term experience vision for problem space through storytelling and collaborative thinking
- Raise quality bar across broader product ecosystem through cohesive, accessible, and scalable experiences
- Drive consistency and leverage across teams by strengthening patterns, frameworks, and design system evolution
- Help teams navigate ambiguity and make strong decisions through facilitation and cross functional collaboration
- Mentor and elevate other designers through constructive critique, coaching, and role modelling
- Partner with product design manager to uphold quality and craft of design in product area
- Contribute to design culture and org wide initiatives through Staff level forums and leadership
Requirements
- 8+ years of Product Design experience
- Proven ability to design scalable experiences across multiple customer segments and/or products
- Experience leading complex, cross team initiatives and delivering cohesive solutions across interconnected systems
- Proven track record of shipping high quality work that solves customer problems and moves key product metrics
- Strong product judgment and business acumen
- Deep mastery of UX craft including complex interaction design, information architecture, usability, and visual design
- Advanced customer centric practice able to lead discovery and align multiple teams
- Proven experience designing AI powered experiences including interaction patterns for trust, transparency, and appropriate user control
- Proven systems thinking; ability to design reusable frameworks and patterns that scale
- Expertise in modern design and prototyping tools, and practical fluency with AI tools in workflow
- Excellent presentation and storytelling skills
- Skilled facilitator who aligns leaders and drives decisions
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Summary
- Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology.
- We are seeking a Staff Product Designer to join our Product Design team.
- This role is available across Canada (excluding Quebec) and the US.
- Hybrid work: in office minimum twice per week near hubs (Burnaby, Calgary, Toronto).
About The Role
- The Design Systems team is the connective tissue of our product ecosystem.
- Vision: a design system that describes how intelligent systems behave, communicate, adapt, and delegate.
- Mission: build that system and culture so every experience feels coherent, trustworthy, and unmistakably Clio.
What You’ll Do
- Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define experience strategy.
- Build deep customer intuition and systems understanding.
- Lead end to end design across multi surface journeys.
- Shape compelling long term experience vision.
- Raise quality bar across product ecosystem.
- Drive consistency and leverage across teams.
- Help teams navigate ambiguity.
- Mentor and elevate other designers.
- Partner with product design manager.
- Contribute to design culture and org wide initiatives.
What You Bring
- 8+ years of Product Design experience.
- Proven ability to design scalable experiences.
- Experience leading complex, cross team initiatives.
- Proven track record of shipping high quality work.
- Strong product judgment and business acumen.
- Deep mastery of UX craft.
- Advanced customer centric practice.
- Proven experience designing AI powered experiences.
- Proven systems thinking.
- Expertise in modern design and prototyping tools.
- Excellent presentation and storytelling skills.
- Skilled facilitator.
What We're Specifically Looking For
- Track record of taking a design system from functional to foundational.
- Fluency with agentic or AI first products.
- Shipped interaction patterns for AI powered features.
- Experience adapting a platform to serve distinct customer verticals.
What you will find here
- Competitive, equitable salary with top tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance.
- Hybrid work environment with expectation to be in office min. twice per week.
- Flexible time off policy with encouraged 20 days off per year.
- CAD 2000 annual counseling benefit.
- RRSP matching and RESP contribution.
- Clioversary recognition program.
- Salary range: CAD 148,000 CAD 222,000.
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