Zillow

Senior Product Manager – Developer Experience

Zillow

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: California • Connecticut • United States

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Salary

💰 $148,600 - $237,400 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Own the strategic direction and roadmap for 1-2 DevEx teams, ensuring objectives align with Zillow’s mission and business goals.
  • Drive the full product lifecycle, from discovery and problem framing through launch and continuous iteration, using clear success metrics and data-driven opportunity sizing.
  • Cultivate deep empathy for internal customers to deliver intuitive, reliable platform products that remove friction, reduce cognitive load, and improve the developer experience.
  • Identify AI opportunities and balance trade-offs across speed, quality, cost, reliability, security, and developer experience.
  • Lead product rollouts and enablement initiatives that maximize adoption and usage of platform products, incorporating feedback loops with partner teams and customers.
  • Define, measure, and clearly communicate business value and platform performance using metrics focused on adoption, developer experience, and business impact.
  • Partner closely with neighboring organizations such as AI Platform, Data Platform, and Security so their needs are reflected in your roadmap.
  • Champion developer experience best practices and “paved paths” across the Zillow developer community to help teams adopt standardized, high-leverage ways of working.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of product management experience building internal developer platforms or developer-facing products at scale, with strong technical fluency.
  • Demonstrated ability to independently use data and customer insights to uncover developer experience opportunities, assess business impact, and drive prioritization.
  • Proven track record of delivering large-scale, cross-team programs in ambiguous problem spaces by breaking them into clear outcomes and manageable tasks.
  • Strong collaborator with engineering teams; you communicate effectively with engineers as both teammates and customers and understand their operational challenges.
  • Skilled at balancing developer needs with governance, integrating controls and security across the software development lifecycle.
  • Clear, influential communicator who can align diverse stakeholders, secure buy-in without formal authority, and drive decisions across the broader organization.
  • Hands-on familiarity with trends and tools in AI-native engineering and agentic software development, with a bias for action and use of AI tools for experimentation and rapid prototyping.
Benefits
  • equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location
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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementdata analysisdeveloper experienceAI opportunitiesmetrics measurementcross-team program deliverysoftware development lifecyclegovernance integrationrapid prototypingcustomer insights
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationinfluential communicationstakeholder alignmentproblem framingempathyprioritizationdecision makingleadershipadaptability