Staff Product Designer, Design Systems in Winnipeg

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

Design plays a pivotal role at Clio, standing alongside Product and Engineering as one of the three pillars of our Research and Development organization. Our product designers work directly with customers to understand their behaviors, needs, and workflows. They champion thoughtful, high‑quality experiences as we transform how lawyers and their teams serve their clients. If you’re focused on shipping value to customers with an opportunity to revolutionize an industry, you’ve found your next team.

About the role: The Design Systems team at Clio is the connective tissue of our product ecosystem. Our foundations allow teams to move faster and ship more consistently, and that work is more important than ever. AI is rewriting what 'baseline' means for every interface our customers and colleagues touch. We’re rewriting the playbook for how Clio’s product teams discover, design, and ship alongside it, by creating shared frameworks, heuristics, and tooling that make the agentic product development lifecycle faster, more consistent, and more repeatable for every team we support.

Our vision is a design system that doesn’t just describe how things look, it describes how intelligent systems behave, communicate, adapt, and delegate to users, while staying on brand. Our mission is to build that system, and the culture around using it, so that every experience feels coherent, trustworthy, and unmistakably Clio.

As a Staff Product Designer, you'll own the vision and evolution of Clio’s design system as it enters an AI-first era, acting as both product owner and design practitioner for the shared foundations that power our internal teams and shape every customer‑facing experience. You'll drive the frameworks, patterns, and standards that define how Clio designs agentic product experiences: from AI interaction models and streaming states, to content voice, brand expression, and the new heuristics needed to evaluate intelligent systems. Ideal candidates thrive in ambiguity, turning deep customer understanding into clear direction, cohesive experiences, and measurable outcomes. You’ll partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders to set vision, raise the quality bar, and elevate other designers, including shaping AI experiences that are trustworthy, explainable, and appropriately controlled.

What you’ll do:

• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define experience strategy, success metrics, and high‑leverage priorities, grounded in customer insights and business outcomes.
• Build deep customer intuition and systems understanding, translating complex workflows and constraints into clear direction and durable experience decisions.
• Lead end‑to‑end design across multi‑surface journeys from opportunity framing to prototyping, validation, and high‑quality execution.
• Shape a compelling long‑term experience vision for your problem space, bringing others along through storytelling and collaborative thinking.
• Raise the quality bar across a broader product ecosystem through cohesive, accessible, and scalable experiences that push beyond “good enough.”
• Drive consistency and leverage across teams by strengthening patterns, frameworks, and design system evolution beyond your immediate scope.
• Help teams navigate ambiguity and make strong decisions through facilitation, decision framing, and proactive cross‑functional collaboration.
• Mentor and elevate other designers through constructive critique, coaching, and role‑modelling strategic thinking and bar‑raising craft.
• Partner with the product design manager of your portfolio to uphold the quality and craft of design in your product area.
• Contribute to design culture and org‑wide initiatives through Staff‑level forums and leadership beyond your immediate portfolio.

What you bring:

• 8+ years of Product Design experience. B2B SaaS experience is preferred, but not required.
• Proven ability to design scalable experiences across multiple customer segments and/or products (e.g., Solo, SMB, and Mid‑Market).
• 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; an ability to connect customer needs to strategy, metrics, and roadmap decisions.
• 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 around customer needs and opportunities.
• Proven experience designing AI‑powered experiences, including interaction patterns for trust and transparency.