Principal Product Manager, Design Systems, Accessibility

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Establish and guide the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Zillow's design systems.

• Develop and enhance data, success metrics, and performance measures for product effectiveness, as well as customer and business value.

• Prioritize investments across various capabilities, including adoption, system quality, support, accessibility, technical investment, and scalability.

• Oversee design-system practices, accessibility standards, and AI-driven development, translating changes into roadmap decisions.

• Gain insight into how designers, engineers, and product managers interact with foundational systems, including their workflows, requirements, and pain points.

• Leverage customer discovery, adoption metrics, and product health insights to shape roadmap decisions.

• Identify barriers to adoption and prioritize enhancements in product, tooling, workflows, and enablement.

• Lead collaboration among Design, Engineering, Product, and senior stakeholders.

• Establish product strategy for accessibility systems, tooling, and product health capabilities.

• Develop tools and integrations for monitoring accessibility health.

• Advance automated accessibility checks, audits, and remediation systems.

• Identify systemic accessibility challenges and determine the appropriate time for centralized solutions.

• Collaborate with the Principal Program Manager for Accessibility on scalable product investments.

• Advance design systems and accessibility standards for AI-driven workflows.

• Collaborate across Design Tech, Engineering, and DevEx to influence AI-driven systems and tooling.

• Assess the impact of AI-driven workflows on adoption, accessibility, quality, and efficiency.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of product management or relevant experience.

• Experience leading complex design systems, platforms, internal tools, or other cross-team horizontal products for over 3 years.

• Technical proficiency to comprehend intricate systems and navigate technical trade-offs.

• Dedication to creating accessible, inclusive digital products and a desire to enhance accessibility expertise.

• Strong product judgment with the ability to distill complex, ambiguous information into clear product direction, strategy, priorities, and trade-offs.

• Proficient in utilizing product data and metrics to understand performance, demonstrate customer and business value, and inform investment decisions.

• Effective communication skills with both working teams and senior leadership.

• Capability to build consensus on complex decisions and influence partners and roadmaps without direct authority.

• Strong fluency in AI and its application to enhance product management tasks.

• Understanding of how AI is transforming product development.

• Nice-to-have: demonstrated expertise in design systems, including product management strategy, adoption, governance, and evolution.

• Nice-to-have: proven experience in advancing digital accessibility, including applying WCAG 2.2 Level AA standards.

• Nice-to-have: experience in promoting the adoption of internal platforms or systems across distributed teams.

• Nice-to-have: familiarity with AI-enabled development tools, MCPs, AI skills, agents, evaluation systems, or related emerging technologies.

🏝️ Benefits

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

• Opportunity for remote work from a location of choice.

• Flexibility to work from wherever employees are most productive through Cloud HQ.

• Support for accommodations related to disabilities or special needs.

• Commitment to equal employment opportunities and an inclusive workplace.