Program Manager, HR Compliance

About the team

The HR Compliance team is part of Zillow's Employee Service & Operations (ES&O) organization. ES&O focuses on delivering scalable, reliable services that support employees and managers across the company, bringing together operational expertise, systems, and shared services that enable Zillow's people processes to run smoothly.

Within ES&O, the HR Compliance team serves as Zillow's center of expertise for HR compliance — establishing the standards, guardrails, and governance frameworks that keep people practices legally sound as the business grows. The team partners closely with the broader People organization, Legal, and other shared services to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical guidance, enabling operational teams to execute compliantly and consistently.

About the role

The Program Manager, HR Compliance is a subject matter expert responsible for helping strengthen Zillow's HR compliance program across a defined and expanding portfolio of programs.

This role supports regulatory monitoring, risk assessment, and policy governance work that allows the team to monitor and respond to changes in employment laws and regulations, identify, assess, and mitigate compliance risk, and equip HR partners with the guidance they need to operate compliantly. You will establish standards, playbooks, and controls for teams to execute against.

You Will:

Monitor new and emerging employment regulations across U.S. federal, state, and international jurisdictions

Develop and maintain a compliance register and ownership mapping, ensuring risks and obligations are documented, assigned, and tracked

Develop and maintain compliance playbooks and operating standards that serve as the authoritative reference for operational teams executing programs

Support international employment compliance governance across multiple jurisdictions, partnering with regional HR and People Legal on country-specific regulatory obligations

Maintain audit-ready compliance controls and documentation across the program portfolio; coordinate internal and external audit activity, owning documentation standards, evidence organization, and audit response coordination in partnership with People Legal Support preparation and submission of statutory government reports, including mandated federal and state workforce filings

Serve as a subject matter expert and advisory resource for stakeholder teams on compliance requirements

Establish and communicate the compliance guardrails that operational teams execute against, ensuring consistent application of standards across programs

Support development and implementation of actionable, accessible guidance

Contribute to compliance education efforts, helping stakeholders understand the intent and practical application of requirements

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  California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $90,900.00 - $ annually.

This base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other  Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia the standard base pay range for this role is $86,300.00 - $ annually. The base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other  addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.

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