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We are transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.

Summary:

Payments is a core growth engine at Clio, with our embedded platform processing billions of dollars in legal transactions each year on behalf of tens of thousands of firms. Fintech and AI are foundational to our strategy as we build the next generation of embedded financial products for the next generation of AI-enabled legal businesses.

The Role

We’re looking for a Director of Product, Fintech to lead Clio’s payments and fintech portfolio, including Clio Payments, Pay Later and Clio Capital as well as a series of future zero‑to‑one bets.

You’ll report to the VP of Product, lead a team of Product Managers, and partner tightly with Design, Engineering, and our VP of Financial Services in GTM. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who has strong opinions, a passion for the fintech space, loves complex problems, and appreciates the role that data plays in the evolution of a product portfolio.

What You’ll Do

• Own the vision, strategy, and results for payments and fintech products at Clio

• Use AI and emerging tech to deliver step‑change improvements in customer value

• Stay hands‑on and in the details from discovery to launch and beyond

• Lead and coach a high‑performing PM team while remaining personally accountable for outcomes

• Partner with GTM to align product, pricing, operations, and go‑to‑market

• Take products from zero to one and from early traction to scale

• Build repeatable playbooks for launching, scaling, and optimizing fintech products

• Bring strong, informed product opinions and back them up with data

• Be deeply fluent in metrics, experimentation, and unit economics

What You Bring

• 10+ years of product management experience with deep exposure to payments and/or fintech

• Experience building and leading a high-performing PM team

• Strong understanding of payments systems (cards, ACH, payouts, fraud, risk, reconciliation)

• Proven success scaling fintech products with demonstrable business impact

• High data fluency. You use data to think, decide, and tell clear product stories

• Comfort operating with urgency in regulated, high‑stakes environments

• Clear, confident communicator who can influence across Product, GTM, and exec teams

Bonus Points

• Experience with vertical SaaS or embedded finance

• Exposure to BNPL, lending, or capital products

• Experience with Payments in EMEA and APAC

• B2B payments expertise

• Shipped AI‑powered fintech products

If you’re a fintech product leader who loves being close to the work, pushing the edge of what’s possible, and building products that matter we’d love to talk.

This role is a backfill for an existing position.

What you will find here:

Compensation is one of the main components of Clio’s Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.

Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include:

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance

• Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office minimum twice per week.

• $2000 annual counseling benefit

• RRSP matching and RESP contribution

• Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years​

The expected salary range* for this role is $204,000 to $255,000 to $306,000 CAD. There are a separate set of 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 skillset of the candidate.

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

Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are 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 we 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.

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