Senior Strategy and Business Operations Manager

Zillow

Senior Strategy & Business Operations Manager at Zillow Group analyzing real estate industry data. Collaborating with teams to drive business performance and strategic initiatives for Media, Marketing, and Listings offerings.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeRemote • California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $127,100 - $203,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudSQLTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the end-to-end performance reporting framework, defining and maintaining the metrics that tracks business health and progress against goals
Build, maintain, evolve, and shape dashboards and reporting infrastructure, ensuring stakeholders have accurate, timely visibility into key performance indicators, and proactively identifying and raising risks and opportunities in the business
Design and execute ad-hoc analyses to answer critical business questions—diagnosing performance anomalies, surfacing underlying drivers, sizing opportunities, and stress-testing assumptions
Build and maintain business performance forecasts, translating leading indicators and historical trends into forward-looking projections that support planning and forecasting processes
Synthesize complex quantitative findings into clear, executive-ready narratives that drive alignment and decisions across cross-functional stakeholders
Partner closely with Data Engineering, Data Science, and Product Analytics teams to ensure data infrastructure, definitions, and pipelines support the team’s analytical needs
Identify gaps in current measurement approaches and proactively develop new frameworks to track emerging products and initiatives
Orchestrate collaboration across Product, Data Science/Data Engineering, Finance, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Experience teams to ensure data and insights are connected to strategy and execution

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, or related field)
7+ years of experience in business analytics, business intelligence, or similar roles
SQL proficiency, with demonstrated ability to work with complex, large-scale datasets
Hands-on experience building and maintaining dashboards in Tableau or a comparable BI tool
Proficiency working in cloud data platforms (preferably Databricks)
Strong analytical skills, with a track record of translating data into clear insights and influencing decisions with cross-functional stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity awards based on experience, performance, and location

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLdata analysisbusiness analyticsbusiness intelligencedashboard developmentdata forecastingquantitative analysisperformance reportingad-hoc analysisdata visualization

Soft Skills

analytical skillscommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvinginfluencingsynthesis of findingsstakeholder managementstrategic thinkingdecision-makingcross-functional teamwork