Zillow Group is hiring a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) for its Data, Engineering, Science & Analytics (DESA) organization. You will be the single-threaded owner for Zillow’s most complex, cross-organizational data and AI programs, combining strategic partnership, clear communication, and broad organizational influence with deep technical program leadership.
What You'll Do
- Serve as a trusted advisor and execution partner to DESA leadership, translating strategy into clear programs, operating mechanisms, and measurable outcomes.
- Own cross-organizational technical programs spanning analytics, data engineering, data platform, experimentation, and AI enablement, ensuring they land with clarity, accountability, and durable impact.
- Act as a critical liaison between DESA and partner organizations to enable bi-directional communication, aligned priorities, and on-time delivery of shared goals.
- Design, implement, and continuously improve lightweight, scalable operating mechanisms that keep teams aligned and moving toward measurable outcomes.
- Dive into technical details where needed to clarify scope, identify risks and dependencies, and enable high-quality, timely decision-making.
- Establish clear milestones, owners, and success metrics for ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives, and drive accountability across teams and leaders.
- Communicate program goals, status, and tradeoffs to both senior executives and technical audiences through clear, concise written and verbal updates.
- Build strong, long-term relationships across engineering, product, analytics, and platform teams so people seek you out to bring clarity, remove blockers, and move work forward.
What We're Looking For
- Deep experience in Technical Program Management, Product Management, or data-focused Engineering roles, with significant time spent leading large, complex, cross-organizational programs in a technology company.
- Operated at Principal-level scope, driving programs that cut across multiple senior leaders, organizations, and roadmaps.
- Deeply familiar with at least two of the following domains: data platforms and data engineering (e.g., Databricks or modern data stacks), analytics/data science/experimentation, or AI/ML and LLM-enabled products or tooling.
- A strategic and systems thinker who connects organization strategy to concrete programs and operating mechanisms, and can clearly explain the “why,” “what,” and “how.”
- A bar-raising program leader who has led ambiguous, cross-functional efforts from zero-to-one and through scale-up, setting clear milestones, owners, and success metrics.
- An exceptional communicator who can write and present clearly to senior executives and technical audiences, and can appropriately own communications on behalf of senior leaders.
- Designs lightweight, scalable processes that solve real problems without over-burdening teams, and iterates based on feedback and outcomes.
- Builds strong, long-term relationships with leaders and individual contributors across engineering, product, analytics, and platform teams, and people seek you out to bring clarity and unblock decisions.
Technical Stack
- Databricks
- Modern data stacks
- AI/ML
- LLM-enabled products or tooling
Team & Environment
Part of the Data, Engineering, Science & Analytics (DESA) organization, which sits within Zillow’s Technology organization. You will report to DESA leadership.
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 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.
