VP, People Business Partners & Talent Development
About The Position
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. Operationalizing our culture and continually strengthening it. In this role, you’ll oversee two of our critical functions: the People Business Partner (PBP) team and the Learning & Development (L&D) team. In this role, 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 every "Clion" has the world-class learning ecosystem required to do the best work of their lives. You will report directly to the Chief People Officer and serve as a key advisor to our executive leadership team.
Requirements
- 10+ years of People Leadership experience.
- Significant experience leading high-growth People teams.
- Deep background in both the Business Partner and Learning/Talent Development worlds.
- Understanding of the metrics of a successful software business (ARR, Churn, LTV) and how talent strategy directly impacts those levers.
- Proven track record of leading large-scale organizational shifts, including M&A integrations or major department re-orgs.
- Ability to influence, challenge, and support a high-velocity executive team.
- Experience building internal people programs with the same rigor and iteration as a customer-facing software product.
- Bias for action and fostering high performing teams.
Nice To Haves
- Strategic Architect: Builds systems that work for 2,000+ employees globally, thinking in terms of organizational design and long-term talent health.
- High-Stakes Coach: Comfortable communicating with "radical candor" with deep empathy and helping executives navigate complex organizational shifts.
- Lifelong Learner: Obsessed with how humans grow and understands that L&D is a competitive advantage woven into daily workflow.
- Data-Informed, Human-First: Uses people analytics to find the "why" behind retention and performance trends while maintaining focus on the individual human experience.
- Culture Guardian: Lives and breathes company values, leads by example, and ensures the "Human-First" philosophy remains operationalized during global scaling.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the People Business Partner (PBP) team and the Learning & Development (L&D) team.
- Act as the architect of the talent density strategy.
- Ensure every department has the strategic talent partnership it needs to scale.
- Ensure every employee has the world-class learning ecosystem required to do the best work of their lives.
- 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.
- Lead the strategy for executive succession and organizational design, identifying, developing, and transitioning top leadership talent.
- Oversee the transition to an AI-augmented learning environment, personalizing growth paths for employees at scale.
- Refine the performance management philosophy, moving toward a model of continuous feedback and transparent career mobility.
- Ensure the people strategy remains cohesive across different time zones, cultures, and legal jurisdictions as the company expands globally.
Benefits
- Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance
- Hybrid work environment
- Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.
- $2000 annual counseling benefit
- RRSP matching and 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
Executive
Education Level
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