Principal Product Designer, Mover Experience

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +16 more states.

📋 Description

• Develop high-quality, interactive prototypes to investigate new product opportunities and aid in product decision-making.

• Convert vague customer, business, and technical inquiries into concrete experiences for assessment and testing.

• Create prototypes for conversational, visual, spatial, multimodal, and agentic interfaces.

• Assess the appropriate fidelity of prototypes, ranging from technical proofs of concept to refined consumer-grade experiences.

• Collaborate with designers and product leaders to shape Zillow's consumer AI experience.

• Investigate conversational systems, dynamic interfaces, personalization, memory, recommendations, and agentic functionalities.

• Transform emerging design, research, and scientific capabilities into practical consumer interactions.

• Prototype novel interaction patterns when existing interface conventions fall short.

• Address aspects of customer control, transparency, trust, responsiveness, and quality within AI-driven experiences.

• Set high standards for interaction design, motion, responsiveness, visual polish, and experiential details.

• Team up with product designers to enhance craft and experiential quality.

• Build relationships across product design, research, product management, engineering, data science, and senior leadership.

• Collaborate with research and research-platform teams to integrate emerging capabilities into product explorations.

• Engage with agentic AI engineering and platform teams to comprehend capabilities and influence technical direction.

• Bridge the gap between design intent, product opportunity, research insight, and technical feasibility.

• Simplify complex systems through demonstrations, narratives, and functional experiences.

• Lead exploratory projects across organizational and product boundaries.

• Determine when to build directly, collaborate with product teams, or connect existing capabilities in innovative ways.

• Develop reusable technical and interaction patterns when beneficial.

• Mentor designers and technologists.

• Present work during critiques, technical reviews, customer-research sessions, and leadership discussions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of relevant experience in design technology, creative technology, interaction design, product engineering, prototyping, or related fields.

• Significant expertise in more than one relevant area.

• A portfolio or body of work showcasing technically ambitious, high-craft interactive experiences.

• Extensive experience in creating functional prototypes that have influenced product definition, customer insights, technical direction, or organizational decisions.

• Advanced front-end development skills utilizing modern web technologies and frameworks.

• Proven strength in interaction design, motion, prototyping, and consumer-product craftsmanship.

• Experience with emerging technologies such as generative AI, conversational systems, agentic architectures, multimodal interfaces, machine learning, or dynamic user interfaces.

• Capability to work effectively with product designers, researchers, engineers, data scientists, product managers, and senior leaders.

• Experience in independently leading ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from initial exploration to meaningful outcomes.

• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills.

• Nice to have: Experience integrating AI- or machine-learning-powered functionalities into consumer products.

• Nice to have: Familiarity with LLM orchestration, retrieval systems, tool utilization, memory, evaluation, generative UI, or agentic interaction patterns.

• Nice to have: Experience collaborating directly with applied research, machine learning, or data science teams.

• Nice to have: Experience prototyping across web, native mobile, voice, spatial, or multimodal environments.

• Nice to have: Experience with creative coding, animation systems, game engines, real-time graphics, 3D, or emerging interface technologies.

• Nice to have: Experience contributing to production codebases or translating prototypes into sustainable implementations.

• Nice to have: Public work such as open-source projects, presentations, installations, experiments, writing, or other contributions to the design-technology community.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary.

• Equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance, and location.

• The option for remote work from a location of your choice.

• Cloud HQ distributed work model.

• An inclusive, innovative, and engaging culture.

• Opportunities for employee growth.

• Equal employment opportunity.

• Support for disability or special-needs accommodations.