Senior Manager, Employee Engagement
About The Position
Clio is seeking a Senior Manager, Employee Engagement to join their Employee Experience team. This role is responsible for designing, measuring, and improving employee experiences that foster connection, celebration, and belonging within a global, distributed workforce. The position requires a strategic operator who can balance high-level direction with hands-on execution, and who has experience leading engagement, events, or culture programs in a global environment. The ideal candidate will be a player-coach, ready to lead and develop a team, and possess a genuine curiosity about AI and its applications in the workplace.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience designing and owning employee engagement, gathering, or culture programs — ideally in a distributed or global organization.
- Experience as a player-coach: able to set strategy and stay hands-on in a lean team.
- A measurement mindset — able to tie people programs to business outcomes and communicate impact to senior leaders.
- Strong cross-functional instincts and judgment navigating ambiguity and competing stakeholder priorities.
- Experience managing a team of program managers.
- Genuine AI fluency — you actively use AI tools in your day-to-day work and can help your team do the same.
Nice To Haves
- Experience owning a large-scale all-company event (1,000+ employees).
- Familiarity with Peakon, Bonusly, or similar engagement/recognition platforms.
- Experience building programming that scales across multiple offices, time zones, or post-acquisition entities.
- Background in both in-person and remote/distributed employee experience.
Responsibilities
- Act as DRI for Team Day, Clio’s annual all-company conference — owning end-to-end planning, execution, and cross-functional committee leadership.
- Design and deliver recurring connection programming including Summer Socials and seasonal moments throughout the year.
- Lead wellness and wellbeing initiatives that support a healthy, high-performing culture.
- Own the intentional-gathering strategy for Anchor Days under our Distributed by Design (DxD) model — the programming, purpose, and rhythms that build connection and collaboration worth showing up for.
- Own the Remote Employee Experience: how distributed and remote Clions connect, belong, and thrive, including Remote Community Days.
- Design and manage global recognition programs spanning peer recognition (Bonusly), milestones, anniversaries, and culture awards — ensuring they land consistently across all regions and entities.
- Define success before you launch — name the metric for every program, then own outcomes in Peakon, participation data, and connection/belonging signals.
- Lead and develop the Employee Engagement team (currently Mitch — Events & Experiences; Tasha — Recognition; Lorena — program coordination).
- Partner with Workplace Experience, the People Leadership Team, and senior stakeholders to integrate engagement best practices across the organization.
Benefits
- Competitive, equitable salary
- Top-tier health benefits
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Hybrid work environment
- Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year
- $2000 annual counseling benefit
- RRSP matching
- RESP contribution
- Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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