Principal Product Manager, Product Development Platforms

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

📋 Description

• Establish the vision and strategy for Zillow's product development platforms and builder tools.

• Convert platform strategy into immediate priorities and pinpoint core platforms, temporary solutions, and tools for retirement.

• Create business cases and recommendations regarding the development, acquisition, renewal, migration, or phasing out of platforms.

• Advocate for platform and tooling necessities in discussions about the product development lifecycle transformation.

• Oversee strategy, roadmap, and execution for the portfolio that includes Replit, Atlassian, and Airtable.

• Adapt the portfolio as new tools are introduced or old ones are retired.

• Collaborate with Engineering and technical program managers to implement features and enhance platform capabilities.

• Define support models for product and engineering related to core platforms.

• Manage vendor relationships, influence vendor roadmaps, provide budget insights, and leverage vendor capabilities at Zillow.

• Establish adoption and value metrics, communicate results to leadership, and recommend necessary adjustments.

• Create documentation, training materials, and self-service support to facilitate broader adoption.

• Guide product managers and cross-functional partners through mentorship.

• Showcase AI-native product practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of product management experience with technical offerings such as platforms, internal tools, developer tools, or enterprise software.

• Proven experience managing a platform from start to finish, including strategy, roadmap, adoption, vendor relations, and renewal.

• Familiarity with AI building tools like Claude, Replit, Cursor, or similar; capable of prototyping with these tools and articulating their impact on product development.

• Flexibility to adjust as AI tools, workflows, and priorities shift.

• Knowledge of security, compliance, and governance for platforms that empower non-engineers to develop and deploy software.

• Technical fluency to facilitate discussions on platform design and architectural trade-offs with Engineering and Security teams.

• Ability to work independently in ambiguous settings and recognize significant problems to address.

• Skill in influencing senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Design, Security, Legal, and Finance teams.

• Experience mentoring fellow product managers.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

• Preferred: Experience managing Atlassian tools at an enterprise level.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Replit, Claude, and/or Glean.

• Preferred: Knowledge of source control and CI/CD tools like GitLab and cloud platforms such as AWS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity awards determined by factors such as experience, performance, and location.

• Remote work environment with no designated corporate office.

• Flexibility to work from locations that enhance productivity through Cloud HQ.

• A culture that is inclusive, innovative, and engaging.

• Equal employment opportunities with accommodations for disabilities.