Principal Product Manager

  • Zillow
  • 09/25/2021
Full time

Job Description

About the team Eager to reinvent the way customers dream, shop for, and unlock their next home? The Zillow Product team leads the development of solutions that help customers discover, evaluate, and confidently move forward with selling and buying options with Zillow. We work alongside designers, engineers, data scientists, marketers, and researchers to identify and unlock possibilities for home shoppers and real estate professionals. We build upon a foundation of quantitative and qualitative understanding of our users to rapidly test, iterate, and launch customer experiences on the world's largest online real estate marketplace. Our goal is to reinvent home shopping through the delivery of seamless, comprehensive, personalized, and inspiring product experiences for our customers and real estate professionals.

About the role

Looking for an opportunity to redefine real estate? We are seeking an accomplished Principal Product Manager who is passionate about solving very complex customer (internal and external) problems, and building highly impactful solutions. You display self awareness and awareness of others to expertly handle situations and relationships across organizations. You are recognized as trusted mentor helping others grow. If you know what's needed to make complete products/systems and teams successful, understand the big picture, and are able to achieve, come join us! In this role, you will:

  • Deliver impact and results by defining success metrics, analyzing data for insights, prioritizing what to build, and coordinating with partner teams to align efforts to business strategies

  • Communicate and collaborate by articulating the "why" and "what" customer problem to solve, working with others, and balancing their point of view with solicited input of others

  • Inform strategy by monitoring competitors, understanding customer needs and technical designs of products to serve them

  • Mobilize your teams to do their best work by providing clear direction, handling dependencies, removing blockers and applying effective operating rhythms

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. "Remote" employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice which must be identified to the Company. Employees may live in any of the 50 US States, with limited exceptions. In certain cases, an employee in a remote-designated job may need to live in a specific region or time zone to support customers or clients as part of their role.

Who you are
  • 7+ years of proficient ability in a product management role, with a focus on building technology products

  • Is fully accountable for annual and quarterly planning for their domain

  • Defines, socializes, and acquires leadership support of product vision

  • Makes decisions to address widespread shifts in technology, impacting cross organization plans and is responsible for ensuring resources and processes are established for effective execution

  • Product decisions, solutions, and suggestions are accurate and successful when judged over time

  • Identifies when to apply a solution to specific problems and when a patterned solution can apply more broadly

  • Communication artifacts are exemplary examples for others to follow

  • Finds common ground, leads, inspires and mentors

  • Here at Zillow - we value the experience and perspective of candidates with non-traditional backgrounds. We encourage you to apply if you have transferable skills or related experiences.

In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.

Get to know us

Zillow is reimagining real estate to make it easier to unlock life's next chapter.

As the most-visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates offer customers an on-demand experience for selling, buying, renting or financing with transparency and nearly seamless end-to-end service. Millions of people visit Zillow and its affiliate sites every month to start their home search, and now they can rely on Zillow to help them finish it - and no matter what job you're in, you will play a critical role in making this vision a reality.

At Zillow, we're powered by our innovative and inclusive work culture, where everyone has the flexibility, support and resources to do the best work of their careers. Our efforts to streamline the real estate transaction is supported by our passion to redefine the employee experience, a deep-rooted culture of innovation, a fundamental commitment to Equity and Belonging, and world-class benefits . But don't just take our word for it. Read our reviews on Glassdoor and recent recognition from multiple organizations, including: Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For® List 2021 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index 2021, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equity Index and HRC's Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality 2021, Fortune Best Workplaces for Technology 2020, Fortune Best Workplaces for Millennials 2020, Fortune Best Workplaces for Parents 2020, and the Deloitte Technology Fast 500.

Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at .

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