Product Design Manager, Design Systems

Clio - Cloud-Based Legal Technology

. Lead Clio's Design Systems team as Product Design Manager .

Posted 11/11/2026full-timeCanadaSeniorLead💰 CA$154,200 - CA$231,400 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading design systems, with a strong focus on interaction design, accessibility, and product-led growth strategies. Proficient in managing cross-functional teams and aligning design initiatives with business outcomes.

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10+ Years Of Product Design ExperienceDesign System ManagementStrong UX And Visual CraftTechnical Fluency With Design TokensExperience Designing AI-Powered Experiences

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Hard Skills

Interaction DesignInformation ArchitectureAccessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)Component ArchitectureDesign TokensPrototypingOnboarding PatternsTrial PatternsUpgrade PatternsLocalization-Ready Systems

Soft Skills

Product JudgmentFacilitationCoachingCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

FigmaClaudeCursorAI Tools

Industry Keywords

Design SystemsProduct-Led GrowthMulti-Brand SystemsMachine-Readable DesignCross-Channel Coherence

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead Clio's Design Systems team as Product Design Manager
Own the design system operating model, including roadmap, intake, contribution, governance, versioning and health metrics
Lead development of machine-readable design system foundations used by people and agents
Bring shared interaction models and patterns across Grow, Manage, Work and Enterprise into the system
Guide conversational UI, streaming and confidence states, citations and automation messages
Extend the design system across Clio's web, mobile and desktop applications
Partner with app teams to maintain platform-specific layers and cross-channel coherence
Collaborate with Brand and Marketing on theming, Enterprise white-label experiences, consumer and client portals, and marketing reuse
Work directly with front-end platform and design systems engineering on token pipelines, component APIs and design-code parity
Oversee reusable onboarding, trial, upgrade and contextual-growth patterns for product-led growth experiments
Align the system roadmap with accessibility, international launch, SMB, mid-market and Enterprise timelines
Build discovery and validation into pattern development with internal users, customers and consumers
Hire, coach and grow Design Systems and PLG designers
Run critiques, design reviews and discovery workshops
Use AI to accelerate exploration, documentation and iteration

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of product design experience
Experience at a Staff, Principal or Lead level
2+ years managing designers or formally leading a design systems team
Track record of building and running a design system at scale
Strong UX and visual craft
Deep knowledge of interaction design, information architecture and accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)
Technical fluency with design tokens, component architecture and front-end code
Experience working with Brand and Marketing on brand expression, theming or multi-brand systems
Experience designing AI-powered experiences, including patterns for trust, transparency and appropriate user control
Strong product judgment connecting system investments to customer and business outcomes
Fluency with modern design, prototyping and AI tools such as Claude, Figma and Cursor
Ability to facilitate alignment across Product, Engineering and Design
Experience making a design system machine-readable, including structured specs, tokens as data and agent/LLM-compatible documentation
Experience shipping AI-native patterns such as streaming states, citations, confidence signals, refusals, error recovery and human-in-the-loop approvals
Experience with localization-ready systems and coherence across web, mobile and desktop
Experience designing or overseeing onboarding, trial and upgrade patterns in a product-led growth motion
Background in content design or experience writing voice and tone standards is a bonus
Experience delivering accessibility conformance through a design system is a bonus
Experience bringing acquired products onto a shared system is a bonus

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
Accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process