Zillow Group is looking for a Principal Portfolio Manager, For Sale to ensure our For Sale portfolio operates as one integrated system. This role provides horizontal visibility across teams and investments, connecting strategy to execution and supporting clear, strategic decisions for our mission to give people the power to unlock life’s next chapter.
What You'll Do
- Own the For Sale product and technology portfolio view, ensuring alignment to company strategy, customer outcomes, and business priorities.
- Support and maintain a clear For Sale portfolio 3 year outlook, reflecting agreed strategy, sequencing, and trade-offs across multiple business lines.
- Provide horizontal visibility across the For Sale ecosystem by identifying cross-team dependencies, overlaps, gaps, and risks.
- Support prioritization and decision-making by partnering with Product, Design, Engineering, Business, and Finance leaders to evaluate trade-offs.
- Translate portfolio intent into clarity for execution by partnering with Program Managers and delivery leaders.
- Partner closely with Rhythm of the Business (RoB) to ensure For Sale portfolio planning aligns with company-level planning and communication rhythms.
- Enable executive decision-making by synthesizing portfolio health, progress toward outcomes, and emerging risks into clear, actionable narratives.
- Continuously improve portfolio practices, tools, and artifacts to increase clarity and value realization.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of experience in portfolio management, product operations, product strategy, or equivalent roles, with demonstrated ownership of large, multi-team horizontal product ecosystems.
- Proven ability to operate at a portfolio altitude, connecting strategy and long-range planning to execution outcomes through others.
- Strong fluency across product, design, engineering, and business, with the ability to understand how decisions in one area impact the broader system.
- Exceptional systems thinker who naturally sees connections, dependencies, and trade-offs across teams and platforms.
- Highly effective at influencing without authority in complex, matrixed organizations.
- Experience supporting prioritization, sequencing, and investment decisions in partnership with senior leaders.
- Strong communication and storytelling skills, able to synthesize complexity into narratives executives can act on.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and shaping clarity where none exists.
- Proven track record of leading change and driving alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
Team & Environment
This role sits within Product Development Operations and provides portfolio-level leadership across Zillow’s For Sale ecosystem.
Benefits & Compensation
- In California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC: $178,300.00 - $284,700.00 annually.
- In Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont: $169,300.00 - $270,500.00 annually.
- Eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.
Work Mode
This is a remote position. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.
Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment. 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.
