Senior Manager, Product Design; UI​/Visual

Zillow Experience Design (ZxD) is a multidisciplinary team shaping the experiences that help people discover, buy, sell, and rent homes. Within ZxD, the Design Foundations team defines the systems, standards, and practices that elevate quality across our product ecosystem. We focus on accessibility, design systems, visual design, product design quality, and content standards. Two design teams sit within Foundations, one focused on our cross-platform design systems and platform standards, and the other focused on our visual design practice and visual language in product.

Both work together to improve design quality across our apps, website, and other digital experiences and to operationalize quality through standards, education, tooling, support and collaborations with our Product Design partners.

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. You’ll ensure it meets real customer and Product‑team needs while remaining thoughtful and consistent. Reporting to the Senior Director of Design Foundations, you will lead and develop a specialized team and own and evolve our Product Design partner enablement program.

You and your team will engage early on priority launches and future‑facing concepts, including emerging AI experiences, helping shape how Zillow continues to make home a reality for more and more people. You’ll also help define and scale Zillow’s emerging AI Visual Identity. As AI changes how teams design and build, this role will help ensure greater speed strengthens—not erodes—visual quality.

You will partner with Design Technology to build quality into AI‑enabled workflows and tools. Work 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, alongside Brand Strategy, Product Marketing, Content Design, and Product Design partners 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 Partner closely with Product Design, Design Systems, and Engineering to improve interface quality, evolve the design system’s visual language layer, and meet Product‑team needs Work with Brand Strategy, Marketing Design and Content Design to refine Zillow’s visual & verbal identity and invest in enablement capabilities Coordinate with Marketing Design and other Design Foundations partners to ensure cohesive customer experiences across Product and Marketing touchpoints.

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and,…