Principal Product Designer

About the team

As a Principal Product Designer, Rentals Enterprise Experience, you’ll join Zillow’s Rentals Enterprise Design team within the Professional Experience group. Our mission is to transform complex rental workflows into intuitive, human-centered experiences that empower marketing/property managers, operators, and renters. By reducing friction and building trust in data-rich environments, we improve the rental journey for millions and drive adoption, retention, and growth for Zillow Rentals.

About the role

This is an opportunity to lead through craft as a Principal Product Designer shaping Zillow’s enterprise rental experience. You’ll define the design vision for dashboards, data visualization, and AI-powered workflows that simplify complexity and deliver clarity to our partners. As a senior individual contributor, you’ll influence outcomes across design, product, and engineering by setting the quality bar, driving systems-level strategy, and ensuring our tools deliver guidance partners can trust and results they can scale.

You Will Get To:

• Own the end-to-end design vision for enterprise dashboards and analytics tools, setting a new standard for clarity and trust in partner decision-making.

• Shape and embed AI-enabled experiences that transform data into actionable guidance and outcomes, making AI a core design consideration alongside usability and accessibility.

• Extend and govern the enterprise design system, ensuring consistency, scalability, and accessibility across Rentals tools.

• Translate complexity into clarity through data visualization and systems frameworks that simplify partner workflows.

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Research to align on strategy, execution, and innovation.

• Serve as a craft leader, raising the quality bar and inspiring excellence across the Rentals Enterprise Design team.

• Drive design outcomes that directly contribute to partner adoption, retention, and business growth.

• Collaborate across disciplines to solve meaningful challenges in how property managers and operators attract renters, optimize leasing, and meet occupancy goals.

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. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.In California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $178,300.00 - $284,700.00 annually. This base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations. In Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont the standard base pay range for this role is $169,300.00 - $270,500.00 annually. The base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations.In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. Employees in this role will not be paid below the salary threshold for exempt employees in the state where they reside.

Who you are

• 10+ years of professional product design experience, with at least 5 years working on enterprise, B2B, or complex system design.

• Expertise in designing dashboards, analytics interfaces, and data visualizations that drive decision-making and action.

• Demonstrated ability to independently initiate and lead complex, cross-functional programs—setting vision, defining frameworks, and driving execution to measurable impact.

• Strong end-to-end design skills: from discovery and research through prototyping, testing, and shipping high-quality experiences.

• Experience with design systems at scale, including creating or governing reusable patterns, components, and frameworks.

• Systems thinking with the ability to model complex workflows, dependencies, and integrations across products.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience working alongside Product, Engineering, and Data Science partners.

• Curiosity and openness to exploring AI-enabled workflows and emerging design practices.

• Ability to mentor and inspire other designers through craft leadership, even without direct management responsibilities.

• 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.

Get to know us

At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers. As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., we help customers navigate buying, selling, financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Whether you're working in tech, sales, operations, or design, you’ll be part of a company that's reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality.

Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the country. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2025, and included on the PEOPLE Companies That Care® 2025 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.

No matter where you sit in the organization, your work will help drive innovation, support our customers, and move the industry—and your career—forward, together.

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 your recruiter directly.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local law.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.