[Hiring] Corporate Development Manager @Zillow

Role Description

The Corporate Development team at Zillow is a high-impact, entrepreneurial function advancing Zillow's Housing Super App vision through acquisitions and strategic investments, as well as financial and strategic analysis across the business. We have been active on the M&A front, including acquisitions such as Virtual Staging AI, Follow Up Boss, Spruce, Aryeo, and VRX Media in recent years, and partner closely with senior leadership on the company's most consequential strategic and financial decisions.

As a Manager on the Corporate Development team, you will work closely with senior leadership as part of a lean M&A team, applying your strategic and analytical skills to identifying, evaluating, and advancing growth opportunities, both organic and inorganic, across Zillow Group's lines of business. This is an individual contributor role where you'll work alongside senior team members in partnership with business leaders, supporting the thesis and business case that inform M&A as well as transaction execution.

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

In California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $130,100.00 - $207,900.00 annually. This base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations.

In Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia the standard base pay range for this role is $123,700.00 - $197,500.00 annually. The base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations.

In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. Employees in this role will not be paid below the salary threshold for exempt employees in the state where they reside.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
• 4+ years of experience, including at least 2 years in investment banking or private equity; corporate development or strategic finance experience is a plus
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking, with the ability to form a point of view on ambiguous business problems
• Clear, concise communicator comfortable presenting analysis and recommendations to senior stakeholders
• Strong three-statement financial modeling skills and broad financial acumen, including corporate finance principles, financial statement analysis and valuation methodologies, applied to novel business situations
• Experience executing M&A transactions through the full process
• Ownership mentality, questioning assumptions and taking responsibility for conclusions
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage several priorities simultaneously
• Strong initiative and judgment; performing in a fast-paced, dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, working efficiently with cross-functional teams in a remote environment
• Genuine curiosity about Zillow's businesses and the problems they solve for customers; familiarity with SaaS or software business models is a plus
• Comfortable leveraging AI tools in day-to-day M&A and analytical work to drive efficiency and sharpen decision making

Requirements

• Research, evaluate, and help develop recommendations for acquisition opportunities
• Contribute to investment theses and business cases that inform build, buy, and partner decisions
• Support all transaction phases, including sourcing, due diligence, structuring, negotiation, closing, and integration
• Provide financial and strategic analysis of acquisition targets, including valuation
• Build detailed, flexible long-term financial models for Zillow Group's overall business in connection with key opportunities and initiatives, including partnerships
• Work with business leaders to evaluate business opportunities and build the analysis behind recommendations
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, finance, and legal to enable an integrated perspective on M&A transactions
• Support the Strategy & Partnerships team in the evaluation and execution of new strategies and partnership opportunities

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity awards based on experience, performance, and location

Company Description

At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers. As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., we help people navigate buying, selling, financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Whether you're working in tech, sales, operations, or design, you’ll be part of a company reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality.

How we work is a key part of that transformation. Through Cloud HQ, our strategic approach to distributed work, most employees have the flexibility to work from wherever they’re most productive—enabling us to move fast, stay connected and deliver on our people promise.

Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the U.S. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2026, and included on TIME’s America’s Best Companies 2026 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.

No matter where you sit in the organization, your work will help drive innovation, support our customers, and move the industry—and your career—forward, together.