Director, Design - StreetEasy

About the team

Street Easy is the most-used local real estate platform in New York City, helping buyers, sellers, renters, and the agents and partners who support them navigate one of the most complex housing markets in the country. As part of Zillow Group’s Product and Design organization, the Street Easy team is building customer-centered experiences that simplify moving through every stage of the real estate journey.

As Director of Experience Design, you will lead design, research, and content design across Street Easy’s buying, selling, and renting experiences. You’ll shape the customer experience across web, iOS, and Android, while partnering with cross-functional leaders to connect design decisions to customer outcomes, business impact, and the future of AI-enabled product experiences.

You Will Get To

• Lead, grow, and develop a multidisciplinary Experience Design team spanning product design, user experience research, and content design, including managing managers and developing second-line leaders.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to define strategy, set objectives, and drive a clear design vision grounded in customer insight and business impact.
• Elevate design, research, and content as core inputs to product strategy and decision-making, not just execution.
• Drive consistency and quality across web, iOS, and Android experiences while respecting the distinct needs and behaviors of each platform.
• Guide the team in exploring and adopting AI-enabled workflows, including prototyping, content generation, and the design of AI-powered product experiences such as personalization and recommendations.
• Champion evidence-based decision-making by using research, analytics, and experimentation to inform experience strategy and iteration.
• Build the systems, standards, and team rituals that make high-quality design repeatable and scalable across Street Easy.
• Manage and prioritize a portfolio of work from concept through delivery, making thoughtful trade-offs across user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.

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 $ - $ annually.

This 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.

• 10+ years of experience designing digital marketplace, e-commerce, or consumer internet experiences.
• 7+ years of people leadership experience leading multidisciplinary design teams, including experience managing managers and developing emerging leaders.
• Proven ability to define a long-term design vision and translate it into practical, iterative plans that deliver measurable impact.
• Experience leading product design across multiple platforms, with strong judgment in interaction design, visual quality, and customer experience.
• Experience designing AI-powered or algorithmically driven experiences, such as recommendations, personalization, or conversational interfaces.
• Comfortable using AI-assisted design tools and able to distinguish where automation accelerates work and where human craft and judgment matter most.
• Deep experience with experimentation-driven design, defining how qualitative research, behavioral data, and testing inform decisions and scale across the product lifecycle.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence partners and senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Data Science, and Strategy.
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