[Hiring] Marketing Senior Specialist, Media Planning @Zillow

Role Description

As a Marketing Sr. Specialist, Media Planning, you will help shape and activate intelligent, data-informed paid media strategies that drive both brand awareness and measurable business impact. This role will support planning across our Brand, Buyer, and Seller campaigns. You’ll have the opportunity to expand your expertise in cross-channel planning, performance optimization, and AI-enabled media activation while directly influencing how millions of consumers engage with Zillow’s products and services.

You Will Get To:

• Translate brand and business objectives into full-funnel media plans that balance communication goals, efficiency and performance.
• Leverage automation tools, platform algorithm and AI-driven optimization strategies to maximize media effectiveness.
• Manage day-to-day campaign activities, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget, and on brief.
• Oversee campaign budgets, flowcharts, and media authorizations.
• Develop and coordinate process documents, workback schedules, and status reports.
• Manage digital campaign implementation, including tagging, QA, and process documentation.
• Coordinate creative trafficking and documentation.
• Monitor competitive activity, industry trends, privacy shifts and emerging ad technologies to proactively evolve Zillow’s media strategy.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with internal teams, external agencies, and vendors.

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 $93,900.00 - $150,100.00 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 $89,200.00 - $142,600.00 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

• 5+ years of experience creating and managing US consumer-facing paid media campaigns.
• Proficient in planning and activating across all media channels, including video, audio, out-of-home, display, and paid social.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize data for performance optimization.
• Comfortable leveraging AI-powered platforms and automation to enhance planning, targeting, optimization and measurement - with a growth mindset toward continuously evolving your skill set as media technology advances.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator, able to build relationships remotely with cross-functional teams and partners.
• Highly organized, with strong project management skills and attention to detail; able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment and adapting to changing business needs.
• Experience with advertising and analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Campaign Manager, Facebook Ad Manager, iSpot) is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree required; agency experience is a plus.

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.