Director, Brand Experience
Zillow
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $231,000 - $369,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Shape and evolve Zillow’s product visual language
- Define and evolve the visual language and brand experience principles across Zillow’s digital products
- Ensure our brand personality is expressed consistently and cohesively in product experiences
- Engage early in product strategy and planning to embed brand thinking from the start
- Identify opportunities — both transformative and incremental — to elevate craft across the ecosystem
- Raise the standard for visual craft
- Mature our visual design practice and elevate skills within our product design org
- Establish clear standards and guidance for visual execution within product
- Integrate visual standards and principles into design systems, engineering workflows, AI-enabled tooling, and our new brand hub
- Show what great looks like through rituals and resources
- Safeguard quality and cohesion as we increase speed and scale
- Lead and develop a high-performing team
- Inspire, coach, and grow a team of visual designers across identity, motion, and illustration
- Provide strong creative direction and thoughtful feedback
- Build a culture of excellence, accountability, and collaboration
- Partner closely with Brand on strategy, priorities and execution
- Collaborate closely with Design Systems to embed brand into shared components and tooling
- Partner with Content Design to align visual and verbal expression
- Partner with Studio Z to ensure cohesive brand experiences across marketing & product
- Work closely with experience design leaders to support their teams and work
- Influence senior stakeholders through strong storytelling and sound judgment
Requirements
- Preferred background in graphic design, visual communication, or a related field
- 7+ years of experience leading and developing design teams; min 5 years of managing
- 10+ years of experience in visual, brand, or digital design, including experience defining visual language within digital product experiences
- Experience working within technology or product-led organizations and partnering closely with product and engineering teams
- Experience shipping digital products and bringing design work from concept through execution
- Experience working across complex, cross-functional environments and aligning a broad set of stakeholders to move work forward
- Experience translating visual standards into scalable systems, tooling, or workflows
- Portfolio demonstrating how you lead teams and shape work, with examples that reflect strong craft and execution
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Equity awards based on experience, performance, and location
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
graphic designvisual communicationdigital designvisual languagedesign systemsAI-enabled toolingscalable systemsworkflow managementproduct designbrand experience
Soft Skills
leadershipteam developmentcreative directioncollaborationstorytellingcoachingaccountabilityinspirationfeedbackstrategic thinking