Principal Product Manager, Rental Listings

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

📋 Description

• Develop the strategy for the selection of Zillow’s rental listings and the foundational inventory of the marketplace.

• Oversee the sourcing, ingestion, enrichment, and quality scoring of rental inventory.

• Enhance the completeness and quality of listings, focusing on pricing transparency, amenities, media richness, and completeness scoring.

• Expand rental inventory coverage across various property types and sourcing channels.

• Identify, negotiate, onboard, and optimize partnerships for data and content.

• Streamline feed and aggregator relationships, as well as third-party data sources.

• Collaborate with feed engineering to ensure data quality, pipeline stability, platform reliability, and syndication.

• Balance ongoing roadmap commitments with urgent partner escalations, making informed tradeoffs.

• Advocate for the listings strategy to senior leadership and external partners.

• Achieve measurable enhancements in listing quality, coverage, partnerships, and platform scalability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in a Product Management role.

• Proven focus on developing consumer-facing technology products.

• Experience in marketplace and/or e-commerce environments is essential.

• Strong background in inventory and marketplace strategy.

• Familiarity with data pipelines, completeness scoring, and quality frameworks.

• Demonstrated experience in managing large-scale data and content partnerships.

• Skilled in negotiating, onboarding, and optimizing third-party data sources.

• Ability to prioritize committed roadmap tasks while accommodating unplanned work.

• Regular use of AI tools for research, prototyping, and analysis.

• Capability to assess AI functionalities and make build-vs-partner-vs-buy decisions.

• Strong partnership skills with AI/ML teams.

• Outstanding verbal, written, and visual communication abilities.

• Proficient in articulating complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Ability to influence stakeholders at all organizational levels.

• Proven track record of successfully launching products at scale.

• A genuine passion for the real estate industry.

• Dedication to the mission and values of Zillow Group.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary.

• Equity awards.

• Option for remote work from a location of your choice.

• Flexible distributed work model (Cloud HQ).

• Inclusive, innovative, and engaging workplace culture.

• Opportunities for employee growth and development.

• Disability or special-needs accommodations available.