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 transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.
Summary:We are looking to hire an Executive (Leadership) Staff Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our Global Talent Acquisition Team. We offer a hybrid work environment and are looking for someone to join us in Vancouver, Calgary or Toronto.
Who You Are:
You’re passionate about attracting top talent and energized by the opportunity to design and deliver creative, future-focused talent acquisition strategies. You’re not a traditional recruiter—you’re someone who genuinely values people and culture, thrives in a high-growth, high-velocity environment, and shows up every day anchored in your values.
What Your Team Does:
Our Global Talent Acquisition team is dedicated to building exceptional human and high-performing teams. We believe the right talent can shape the trajectory of the company, and we partner closely with leaders across the business to make that happen. We pride ourselves on delivering a thoughtful, seamless, and memorable candidate experience from start to finish.
What You’ll Work On:
Executive Search & Talent Strategy
Work with the Talent Acquisition Leadership Team to determine, build, and execute effective strategic and tactical solutions to recruit top leadership talent.
Specifically focus on the recruitment of Senior Leadership roles and hard-to-fill, high-impact, and business-critical roles.
Manage and drive the full-cycle recruitment process (including assessing for culture and values alignment) for senior, leadership, and complex roles.
Proactively build diverse pipelines and deliberately work toward designing more inclusive teams, processes, and hiring outcomes.
Market Expertise & Intelligence
Stay current on business, industry, and market trends to effectively engage, assess, and influence executive talent.
Maintain visibility into industry trends, talent movements, organizational structures, and compensation benchmarks to ensure competitive positioning.
Build and manage talent pipelines through strategic sourcing, market mapping, and deep engagement within the global tech ecosystem.
Lead deeper market research initiatives to strengthen long-term executive talent strategies.
Stakeholder Engagement & Influence
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across Engineering, Product, GTM and other executive-level functions.
Work with executive-level stakeholders to understand hiring needs and provide a white-glove experience to candidates throughout all stages of the interview process.
Tailor communication and insights to technical and non-technical audiences to build alignment and influence hiring decisions.
Operate effectively in a matrixed, global environment, balancing competing priorities while securing cross-functional buy-in.
Guide hiring teams through feedback loops, decision-making frameworks, closing strategy, and offer packaging to maximize alignment, velocity, and candidate experience.
Data, Reporting & Analytics
Understand Talent Acquisition metrics, how to build them, interpret them, and partner with the team to achieve them.
Leverage data to report back to the business, guide decisions, and drive continuous improvement across the function.
Translate complex recruiting data into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.
Develop and maintain executive-level talent intelligence dashboards and search documentation.
Operational Excellence & Process Improvement
Research, propose, and operationalize improvements to Talent Acquisition processes and practices.
Assist in the refinement of interview processes for senior and emerging leadership roles, including evolving competency models and leveling frameworks.
Help drive adoption of new hiring tools, assessment methods, and sourcing technologies.
Partner with cross-functional groups (e.g., Compensation, HRBPs, People Analytics) to ensure clarity, alignment, and accuracy across all high-impact searches.
Leadership Enablement
Level up Hiring Managers by designing and delivering learning, enablement, and best practices for interviewing, decision-making, and candidate experience.
Act as a recruitment and sourcing subject matter expert to the Talent Acquisition team.
Mentor teammates through key activities, challenges, and development opportunities within the function.
Contribute to talent forecasting, succession planning insights, and leadership pipeline development.
Executive Communications
Create and deliver compelling executive-level presentations and briefings, including:
Candidate profiles and narrative summaries
Market maps and competitive intelligence
Search strategy updates and hiring recommendations
What You’ll Bring:
Bachelor’s Degree AND 6+ years of Talent Acquisition experience (recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or related industry experience; OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
4+ years executive recruiting experience in client-facing, retained search, in-house executive talent acquisition, or talent research roles
A proven track record of meeting (and exceeding) hiring targets, with an ability to balance volume, quality, and speed.
Data fluency—you use metrics and insights to influence decisions, identify trends, and drive behavioural and process improvements.
A consultative mindset, approaching recruitment as a strategic partnership and bringing thoughtful problem-solving to every stage of the hiring process.
Solid grounding in HR best practices, with a commitment to compliance, fairness, and alignment with organizational values.
Proficiency across multiple sourcing and attraction channels—inbound, outbound, referrals, events—and a demonstrated ability to build diverse, high-quality pipelines.
Experience engaging passive talent, from sourcing to initial outreach through nurturing to hire.
Curiosity and a growth mindset, with a strong interest in continuously refining your craft, including through the use of AI tools and innovations.
Bonus Points if you Have:
Experience with tech stack Workday Recruiter(ATS), GEM, and other AI sourcing tools
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 min. twice per week.
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
*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.
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Clio Dublin, Dublin, IRL Office
Fumbally Lane, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, D08
