[Hiring] Senior Manager, Product Design (UI/Visual) @Zillow

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Manager of Product Design (UI/Visual) to lead the Foundations team focused on our visual design practice and visual language. This is an opportunity to help shape the next chapter of how people experience Zillow—helping Product Design teams create clearer, more cohesive, and higher-quality customer experiences through visual craft, while building the practice, guidance, and partnerships that help that quality scale.

Zillow’s recently refreshed visual identity creates an opportunity to refine how it comes to life across our apps, website, and other digital experiences. You will co-own its evolution with our Brand and Studio teams, while driving its refinement and application in Product.

In this role, you will:

• Lead a product design team focused on Zillow’s visual language.
• Co-own the refinement of Zillow’s visual identity with the Brand and Studio teams, ensuring it works for Product use cases.
• Own the application of Zillow’s visual identity in Product experiences, ensuring it meets real customer and Product-team needs while remaining thoughtful and consistent.
• Set Product-focused visual principles, standards, and guidance that help teams create cohesive, high-quality interfaces.
• Drive the evolution of the visual language of the design system, defining the Product-focused principles and guidance that shape how Zillow’s interfaces look and feel.
• Engage early in priority concepts and launches to improve interface clarity, cohesion, and quality.
• Mature our Visual Design practice and Partner Enablement programs.
• Own and evolve the Partner Enablement program, pairing Foundations designers with Product Design teams to understand their needs.
• Use insights from those partnerships to strengthen the program and identify opportunities for focused guidance.
• Mature our nascent Visual Design practice to give Product Design teams the guidance, tooling, feedback, and support to strengthen design craft in their work.
• Partner with Design Technology to embed visual-quality standards and guidance into AI-enabled design tools and workflows.
• Help define and scale Zillow’s emerging AI Visual Identity in Product.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team.
• Lead, coach, and grow a specialized team of designers ranging from mid-level to principal.
• Set clear direction, operating priorities, and work plans; allocate team capacity across foundational work, Product partnerships, and focused exploration.
• Provide strong creative direction and thoughtful feedback, enabling the team to make sound design decisions and deliver high-quality work.
• Build a culture of excellence, accountability, and collaboration.
• Partner effectively across Product and Marketing.
• Coordinate with Marketing Design and other Design Foundations partners to ensure cohesive customer experiences across Product and Marketing touchpoints.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Product Design experience, with a Visual Design, brand, or digital-craft specialization.
• 4+ years of experience managing and developing designers, including Senior and Principal individual contributors.
• Experience leading a Visual Design practice, design-quality initiative, or related craft discipline at a technology or product-focused organization.
• Experience shipping digital products and bringing design work from concept through execution.
• Experience partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Design Systems, and Brand, Marketing, or Content Design teams.
• Experience translating visual standards into scalable systems, tooling, or workflows.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong Product craft, clear creative direction, and thoughtful people leadership.

Requirements

• A Product Design leader with a clear point of view on how visual craft creates clearer, more cohesive, and higher-quality product experiences for customers.
• Brings a strong Product Design foundation and deep expertise in Visual Design or a related craft discipline, with fluency in UI design, typography, hierarchy, layout, interaction states, motion, iconography, and information design.
• Experienced in refining and applying visual language in digital Product experiences, from concept through execution.
• Leads through a specialized team—setting clear direction and priorities, providing thoughtful creative direction and feedback, and building the guidance, practices, and tools that scale visual quality across Product Design.
• Builds a visual design practice that gives Product Design teams the guidance, feedback, and support to strengthen visual craft in their work.
• A strong cross-functional partner who understands Product-team needs and uses clear communication and sound judgment to build alignment across complex work.
• Embraces AI-native ways of working, using new tools to protect and improve design quality.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary.
• Eligible for equity awards based on factors such as 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.

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.

Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees.