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Zillow

Online real estate platform with valuations

Principal Product Manager - Platform Engineering

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/21/2026
$169.3k - $284.7k/yr+ Equity awards
Expert
Remote in USA
RemoteU.S. employees may work from any of the 50 states, with limited exceptions.
ProductTechnical Product Management
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • 8+ years of product management experience, including substantial time building internal platforms, infrastructure, or developer tooling used by multiple teams across organizational boundaries.
  • Experience owning a platform portfolio comprising multiple interdependent capabilities with different customers, maturity levels, and lifecycles, and prioritizing across them.
  • Strong technical fluency in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems, including compute and container orchestration, networking, databases, identity and secrets, and continuous integration and continuous delivery, sufficient to reason about architectural tradeoffs alongside senior engineers.
  • Proven track record driving adoption of platform standards across teams the candidate does not manage, using defaults, deprecation paths, and mechanisms that drove measurable change in behavior.
  • Experience leading complex migrations at scale, including full retirement of the systems they replaced.
  • Ability to operate in ambiguity and impose structure on complex, cross-functional infrastructure initiatives where scope is undefined and precedent is limited.
  • Experience raising the product bar for engineering leaders who carry product responsibility through coaching, shared standards, and durable artifacts rather than sole ownership.
  • Familiarity with designing platform capabilities for AI agents as consumers, including where automated workflows require human approval and how automated paths are verified.
Responsibilities
  • Own platform strategy across Platform Engineering's portfolio, turning independently run infrastructure roadmaps into a coherent product direction with explicit investment tradeoffs.
  • Define the golden paths for how engineers build at Zillow, designing the platform so the supported path is the fastest one and unsupported patterns are difficult to fall into.
  • Drive adoption and migration outcomes across teams with no reporting relationship to the role, using defaults, deprecation paths, and enablement mechanisms that produce measurable change in how teams build.
  • Define how applications and AI agents consume platform capabilities, establishing which self-service paths are agent-driven, which remain deterministic, and where human approval is required.
  • Establish how platform success is measured, including adoption, onboarding time, satisfaction, and key customer outcomes, and build the underlying value model of what capabilities cost to serve and what they are worth.
  • Deepen the product operating model across six engineering teams, partnering with engineering leaders who carry product responsibility to strengthen discovery, requirements, and outcome definition.
  • Partner closely with Data Platform, Developer Experience, and Security teams to keep the internal developer experience coherent and resolve ownership gaps between organizations.
Desired Qualifications
  • Clear, structured communication that can maintain a coherent platform narrative across engineering, adjacent platform teams, and executive stakeholders.

About the company

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Zillow

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Zillow runs a real estate platform that helps people buy, sell, rent, and finance homes. It combines property listings with mortgage services and advertising, earning revenue from ads, leads for real estate agents, and mortgage origination. Its core product uses technology and the Zestimate to estimate home values and connect users with agents, lenders, and listings through an integrated online experience. Unlike services that focus on a single part of the market, Zillow offers a broad ecosystem that spans listings, valuations, and financing in one place, supported by data and network effects from a large user base. The company’s goal is to make moving to a new home easier by simplifying transactions and enabling users to complete more steps online, from search to financing to closing.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

2005

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What believers are saying

  • Q2 2026 revenue rose 18% to $772 million, with $176 million Adjusted EBITDA.
  • Rentals revenue climbed 31% and mortgages revenue jumped 75% year over year in Q2.
  • Preview listings now appear on Realtor.com and RealScout, widening distribution fast.

What critics are saying

  • The September 15, 2026 MRED ruling sent Zillow's Chicago antitrust claims to arbitration.
  • FTC settlement on August 24, 2026 proves regulators still police Zillow's dealmaking aggressively.
  • August 2026 layoffs cut over 500 employees, signaling pressure to sustain growth without bloat.

What makes Zillow unique

  • Zillow Preview launched March 2026, giving early listing access across Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com.
  • Zillow still owns the widest consumer audience, with 239 million monthly unique visitors in Q2.
  • Its product stack spans for-sale, rentals, mortgages, and agent software under one brand.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Parental Leave
  • Family Planning Benefits
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Paid Vacation
  • Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-11%

1 year growth

-11%

2 year growth

-11%
Headline USA
Oct 18th, 2026
Booker, Warren call for FTC investigation into online real estate companies.

Booker, Warren call for FTC investigation into online real estate companies. They asked the agency to investigate how real estate websites connect buyers with agents and mortgage lenders, and how brokerages handle private home listings. October 18, 2026 (Tom Joyce, The Center Square) U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren want the Federal Trade Commission to look at whether online real estate companies use deceptive practices that raise homebuying costs. Booker, D-N.J., and Warren, D-Mass., sent a letter to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson this week. They asked the agency to investigate how real estate websites connect buyers with agents and mortgage lenders, and how brokerages handle private home listings. "We urge you to now investigate anticompetitive and deceptive practices in the home-buying market, using every enforcement tool available to restore competition to the entire online real estate marketplace," the senators wrote. It comes as U.S. Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., had similar concerns. In June, he asked Ferguson to investigate online agent referrals and mortgage lending practices, HousingWire reported. The senators found three practices they want the FTC to investigate. First, they said buyers who click a website's "contact agent" button may reach an agent who pays the website part of the sales commission rather than the agent selling the home. The senators say that can raise costs without the buyer even knowing. "Platforms and agents do not disclose these commission-sharing arrangements, leaving buyers unaware that they are agreeing to pay inflated prices to cover the platform's revenue cut," they wrote. Second, the senators said agents often must refer buyers to lenders tied to the websites. Those lenders often aren't upfront about their financial incentives and charge higher rates and offer worse loan terms. Also, they criticized brokerages that have private home listings, showing homes to a select few buyers before making listings public. The senators said doing this hurts prospective homebuyers and sellers. The sellers can get fewer offers when fewer people know their home is for sale. Zillow has denied that these services hurt buyers. Responding to the lawsuit, Zillow said buyers can choose their own agents and lenders. Zillow added that every home listing lets buyers directly contact the listing agent. "Buyers are never required to work with that agent and remain free to choose anyone they prefer," Zillow wrote. The senators also cited the FTC's rental advertising case against Zillow and Redfin. The FTC accused Zillow of paying Redfin $100 million to stop competing in rental advertising. An August settlement forced Redfin to restart that business and invest millions in it. Booker and Warren want similar FTC action in the home sales market. They said high housing costs are another reason the FTC should investigate. They noted recent National Association of Realtors figures showing the median existing-home price is now about $440,600 and the median first-time homebuyer age is 40. The senators said higher fees and mortgage rates make buying a home harder. They said those costs are even worse when buyers add them to their mortgages and pay interest on them. "Younger and first-time homebuyers are most harmed by these practices," they wrote. "They are making the largest financial transaction of their lives without knowing the full picture."

VentureBeat
Oct 15th, 2026
Homa raises $5 million to redefine homebuying with AI.

Homa raises $5 million to redefine homebuying with AI. 5:05 am, PT, October 15, 2026 Seed funding powers California expansion and in-platform mortgage lending AUSTIN, Texas-(BUSINESS WIRE)-October 15, 2026- Homa, the AI platform reinventing how Americans buy homes while returning up to 2% of the purchase price to buyers at closing, has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Quiet Capital, with participation from Restive Ventures and Cambrian Ventures. The round funds expansion across California and the launch of mortgage lending inside the platform. Homa is now available statewide in California (alongside Florida and Texas), covering roughly 95 million Americans. Buyers can search, tour, negotiate, close, and secure a mortgage in one place. The company, which went viral earlier this year with the first AI closings in the U.S., recorded its strongest month in September. Quiet Capital, an early investor in OpenAI and Reddit, led the round alongside fintech-focused Restive Ventures and Cambrian Ventures. Co-founder and CEO Arman Javaherian, a former senior director at Zillow, said the traditional process has barely changed in 40 years. "You tour on someone else's schedule, you take advice from someone paid more when you spend more, and you hand over tens of thousands of dollars at the closing table for work you largely did yourself," he said. "We built Homa so buyers get better information, better representation, and serious money back that can dramatically reduce the lifetime cost of a mortgage and boost their purchasing power." Homa is a licensed brokerage whose AI is trained on state-specific law, property data, and real-estate coursework. It provides pricing insight, disclosures, comps, risk analysis, and bargaining-power scoring before an offer. Local specialists handle tours on the buyer's schedule for a flat fee. Offers are written and negotiated by in-house brokers - one per state - each with more than a decade of experience and hundreds of closed transactions. On deals where the seller offers a buyer-broker commission of up to 3%, Homa keeps 1% and credits the remainder (typically about 2%) back to the buyer. Credits have averaged more than $10,000 and exceed $40,000 on higher-priced homes. Buyers can apply the credit to a rate buydown, closing costs, or the purchase price. The new mortgage feature lets buyers shop for a loan inside Homa instead of being handed off to an outside lender. When the credit and loan sit in the same file, the credit can fund a rate buydown that lowers the mortgage rate by as much as 0.75%, compounding savings over the life of the loan. Integrating brokerage and lending also reduces delays from financing issues and poor coordination. "Buying a home is the biggest financial decision most people will ever make, and the two parties who decide whether it goes smoothly - the brokerage and the lender - are almost always separate businesses with no incentive to coordinate well," said Michael Bloch, Partner at Quiet Capital. "Homa is the only consumer company we have seen that runs both sides and hands the customer real money back. The expansion to California coupled with the new mortgage feature is an inflection point on Homa's path to changing the economics of homebuying in America." Homa timed the California launch for surging demand in the state's largest metros. It has been live in Florida since 2025, expanded to Texas in June 2026, and soft-launched California on September 1. Capital will also support a mobile app later this year. "California buyers do their own research, and they are not looking for someone to unlock a door and mark it up by 3%," Javaherian added. "What they actually need is real MLS access, a licensed broker who negotiates for a living, financing that is part of the offer strategy rather than an afterthought, and a credit large enough to increase their purchasing power." Homa was co-founded by Javaherian and Federico Campeotto, a computer scientist with a Ph.D. specializing in artificial intelligence. It is the only end-to-end platform of its kind and has already returned millions of dollars to buyers in Texas and Florida. About Homa Homa is the first AI-powered homebuying platform and licensed brokerage to take buyers through search, analysis, touring, offer, financing, and closing in one place, then credit most of the buyer-side commission back to them. Available in California, Florida, and Texas. Learn more at www.tryhoma.com.

Ohsem.me
Oct 5th, 2026
Boris Mizhen happy to be at the NYC Real Estate Tech Week.

Boris Mizhen happy to be at the NYC Real Estate Tech Week. 05/10/2026 "I'm honored to be invited to this exciting event and to examine all the real estate and technology fields," said Boris Mizhen. New York, NY, United States, October 5, 2026 - Boris Mizhen, a real estate developer with experience in the industry, was invited to participate in New York City Real Estate Tech Week, a multi-event program focused on innovation and emerging technologies in the real estate sector. Held in New York City, the event brought together technology companies, real estate professionals, industry organizations, and entrepreneurs to examine developments shaping the future of the property market. Organized and co-promoted by technology accelerator MetaProp NYC and its network of partners, including the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), and Zillow, the week featured a series of 10 events highlighting emerging technologies and real estate-focused startups. Participating organizations included the Real Estate Board of New York, Zillow Group, CRE // Tech, the Urban Land Institute, the Industrial & Office Real Estate Brokers Association, the New York City Real Estate Tech Meetup, and NAIOP. Boris Mizhen is considered invaluable to developers within the industry. In addition to his investments in New York City properties, he has headed marketing technology firms staffed by highly trained and experienced professionals. As a combination of public and invitation-only events, the NYC Real Estate Tech Week featured investors and executives from the residential and commercial real estate communities. Among the invited speakers and panelists were a number of local technology startups, including Radiator Labs, Edenworks, and The Square Foot. Topics of discussion were Sustainability and Security; Digital Disruption; How Tech Tsunami Disrupts the CRE Industry; and How to Build Data-Driven Startups in Real Estate. "I'm honored to be invited to this exciting event and to examine all the real estate and technology fields," said Boris Mizhen. "With all the new developments and rapid innovations in recent years, an event like this is essential to remain informed. It has brought in some of the key players in New York City's real estate market, making it an invaluable opportunity for experienced real estate developers to meet one another." Boris Mizhen has long been an advocate for the increasing use of technology in the real estate industry, which is no surprise given his well-known admiration of futurists such as Elon Musk and Steve Jobs. In addition to his work as a real estate developer, Mizhen is a prominent philanthropist. Through the Boris Mizhen Family Trust, he has contributed to many noteworthy non-profit organizations, including the Jewish Foundation's PACE Fund (Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment Fund) and the Chabad of Shoreline's Jacob Fund. The charities provide food for local families in need through "gift cards" that are honored by area supermarkets. Boris Mizhen - Property Developer and Philanthropist: http://borismizhennews.com Boris Mizhen (@bmizhen) - Twitter: https://twitter.com/bmizhen Boris Mizhen - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bmizhen Contact Info: Name: Boris Mizhen Email: Send Email Organization: BorisMizhenNews.com Website: http://borismizhennews.com Release ID: 89205157 If you detect any issues, problems, or errors in this press release content, kindly contact [email protected] to notify Ohsem.me (it is important to note that this email is the authorized channel for such matters, sending multiple emails to multiple addresses does not necessarily help expedite your request). Ohsem.me will respond and rectify the situation in the next 8 hours.

HousingWire
Oct 1st, 2026
Flyhomes hires three executives to grow buy before you sell.

Flyhomes hires three executives to grow buy before you sell. New executives will support product, partner enablement and business development for lenders and broker partners Article Summary. Flyhomes hired Tyler Moynihan, Nihit Nirmal and Wendy Tieu to expand lender and real estate partnerships around its buy before you sell platform. The hires follow a Figure financing framework sized for up to $2.4B in annual volume as adoption grows. AI Summary Flyhomes announced Thursday that it has hired three senior executives as the company expands its partnerships with mortgage lenders and real estate companies around its buy before you sell platform. Tyler Moynihan, a former Zillow business development leader, joins Flyhomes as vice president of business development. Nihit Nirmal has been named vice president of product and Wendy Tieu returns to the company as director of partner enablement. Moynihan spent more than 11 years at Zillow, where he led business development. At Flyhomes, he will focus on strategic partnerships aimed at expanding the company's buy before you sell offering among lenders and real estate organizations. The platform is designed to help homeowners purchase their next home before selling their current one, addressing challenges that can arise when buyers need to access home equity or qualify for a new mortgage while still owning their current property. "Homeowners shouldn't have to put their lives on hold because buying and selling a home is too complicated," Flyhomes CEO and co-founder Tushar Garg said in a statement. "Tyler, Nihit and Wendy will help us bring that work to more partners and unlock demand sitting on the sidelines." The hires follow Flyhomes' recent partnership with Figure, which established a financing framework capable of supporting up to $2.4 billion in annual buy before you sell volume as adoption grows. Flyhomes has also launched a redesigned website and a Partner Portal as it focuses more heavily on lenders and loan officers. The company is expanding through wholesale and partner channels, giving industry professionals access to its buy before you sell tools. "Lenders and real estate companies already have relationships with homeowners who want to move but feel stuck," Moynihan said. "Flyhomes gives those partners a way to help customers take the next step while keeping those relationships at the center of the transaction." Nirmal will oversee product development, with a focus on making the platform easier for partners to use as they evaluate homeowners' options and move transactions forward. Tieu will focus on partner education, resources and ongoing support. She will help lenders and real estate agents identify situations where the buy before you sell platform can help keep transactions moving or allow homeowners to reconsider moves they had postponed. Flyhomes has evolved from a direct-to-consumer real estate company into a platform serving the broader housing industry. Its buy before you sell offering is designed to address three barriers to moving: qualifying for a new mortgage while still owning a home, accessing equity for a new purchase and making an offer without a home-sale contingency.

GeekWire
Sep 25th, 2026
Tech Moves: Microsoft AI exec joins Niantic Spatial; Allen fund names first investment chief; Zillow AI leader heads to Stripe.

Tech Moves: Microsoft AI exec joins Niantic Spatial; Allen fund names first investment chief; Zillow AI leader heads to Stripe. by Todd Bishop on Sep 25, 2026 at 7:14 am - Niantic Spatial hired Dave Citron as chief product officer. He joined from Microsoft AI, where he was corporate vice president of product on the Superintelligence team and helped build and launch Microsoft's first frontier foundation models. San Francisco-based Niantic Spatial, spun out of Pokémon Go maker Niantic, builds spatial AI models and services, including a visual positioning system trained in part on images crowdsourced from Pokémon Go players. The company has an engineering team in Bellevue, Wash. The Seattle-area executive was previously senior director of product for the Gemini app at Google DeepMind and worked on Google Meet and Google Duo. He began his career at Microsoft in 2005, helping take OneDrive from its first release to more than 200 million monthly users. "AI is remarkably good at reading and writing, but it still doesn't understand the physical world well enough to act in it safely," Citron said in the announcement. - The Fund for Science and Technology, the Seattle-based foundation responsible for giving away a large portion of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's fortune, named Jane Dietze its first chief investment officer. She starts Jan. 4, 2027, after finishing the year at Brown University, where she has held that role since 2018. Brown says its endowment grew from $3.2 billion to $8 billion over the 10 years through fiscal 2025. Her deputy, Joshua Kennedy, will succeed her. Dietze previously held investment roles at Bowdoin College, Fortress Investment Group and Columbia Capital. The foundation launched publicly in August 2025 with a mandate to deploy at least $500 million over four years in bioscience, the environment and AI for good. It also funds the Allen Institute and Ai2, the Allen Institute for AI. The fund started with a $3.1 billion endowment from Allen's estate and is expected to oversee a large portion of the proceeds from the sale of Allen's sports teams. Its first CEO, Lynda Stuart, stepped down in May. - Nicholas Stevens joined payments giant Stripe as head of product for agentic commerce, working from Seattle, after a decade at Zillow. He was most recently Zillow's vice president of product for AI and data, leading product strategy for the company's AI products and data platform. His LinkedIn profile notes that he drove the partnership that made Zillow one of seven global launch partners for OpenAI's ChatGPT apps platform. He previously worked in product at Prismatic. "I believe AI buying & selling on your behalf can be magical," he wrote. - Scowtt, a Kirkland, Wash.-based startup that uses AI to predict which sales prospects will become customers, named Ben Trenda chief revenue officer. Trenda is an ad tech veteran who worked at Overture/Yahoo, AOL and Rubicon Project, and co-founded iSocket. Scowtt says it is approaching $10 million in annual recurring revenue. - The American Astronomical Society named University of Washington astronomy professor Emily Levesque the next editor in chief of its journals, including The Astrophysical Journal. She takes charge in August 2027, succeeding Ethan Vishniac. - ThriftBooks, the online used-book seller founded in Seattle in 2003, named Carla Anderson Skogland chief financial officer. She had been interim CFO since April. Anderson Skogland, who is based in the Seattle area, was previously CFO of Sono Bello. She spent 11 years at Amazon, and earlier worked at T-Mobile and for more than 15 years at Starbucks. - Michael Mann is stepping down as executive director of Clean & Prosperous, a climate policy group that backed Washington's Climate Commitment Act, once a successor is chosen. He took over on an interim basis from the late founder David Giuliani and led the group for five years. Mann, founder of consulting firm Cyan Strategies, previously led the City of Seattle's Office of Sustainability and Environment. - Lani Ramos joined Yoodli, a Seattle startup that uses AI roleplays for communications training, to build its renewals function. Ramos spent 13 years at Tableau and Salesforce, most recently as director of renewal for North America. - Former Starbucks CFO Rachel Ruggeri joined the board of San Diego-based Jack in the Box. Ruggeri, a Seattle-area finance leader, spent more than two decades at Starbucks and was its CFO from 2021 to March 2025. She also serves on the board of Stryker. - Victor Fetter is stepping down at the end of the year as chief technology and business systems officer at Everett, Wash.-based Fortive after nearly seven years. Rich Noonan, Fortive's chief information security and technology operations officer, will become CIO. Fetter, who is based in Mississippi, plans to expand his board work and angel investing. - And in case you missed it: * Microsoft moved its communications team under President Brad Smith. Brent Colburn is interim communications leader, and longtime comms chief Frank Shaw will serve as an advisor through the end of the year. * Truelist founder Carey Armstrong, a former Zillow vice president, is joining Mainstay as chief strategy officer after Mainstay acquired her startup.