Principal Product Manager - Remote, Strategy & Scale

About The Team

You'll join Zillow's Developer Experience team, which enables every engineer across Zillow Group, spanning all of our products and brands. As AI changes how software is built, those engineers face familiar challenges: fragmented tool chains, slow feedback loops, and new tools arriving faster than paved paths can absorb them. We are building one paved path from idea to impact that is fast, safe, observable, and measurable.

Our mission is to make the developer path of least resistance the path of highest leverage. Partnering with engineers, designers, data scientists, and researchers, we own the platforms and AI-native developer tooling and agents that span the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from planning and local development through code review, release, and post-release operations. We treat the platform as a product: we invest in golden paths, self-service tooling, and high-quality developer experiences so that every product team can ship for our customers faster and with higher quality.

About The Team

You'll join Zillow's Developer Experience team, which enables every engineer across Zillow Group, spanning all of our products and brands. As AI changes how software is built, those engineers face familiar challenges: fragmented tool chains, slow feedback loops, and new tools arriving faster than paved paths can absorb them. We are building one paved path from idea to impact that is fast, safe, observable, and measurable.

Our mission is to make the developer path of least resistance the path of highest leverage. Partnering with engineers, designers, data scientists, and researchers, we own the platforms and AI-native developer tooling and agents that span the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from planning and local development through code review, release, and post-release operations. We treat the platform as a product: we invest in golden paths, self-service tooling, and high-quality developer experiences so that every product team can ship for our customers faster and with higher quality.

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The Role

AI is changing how software gets built, and Zillow is bringing its developer platforms together under one Developer Experience organization to lead that shift. We are hiring a Principal Product Manager to shape the strategy and execution of Zillow's AI-native software development lifecycle. You will partner closely with engineering leaders and engineers to define the developer platforms and AI-native tooling that measurably improve how Zillow builds software, and serve as the go-to expert on developer experience for senior leadership.

This is a platform-as-a-product role: you will own outcomes rather than features, and you will drive adoption and migration across engineering teams you do not manage.

You will own one distinct execution focus within a shared AI SDLC strategy. That focus is either the inner loop (the local, fast-feedback work developers do while planning and authoring code) or the outer loop (the shared pipeline from code review and merge through release and post-release operations). The two focus areas partner closely so the end-to-end developer journey feels like one coherent, intelligent path.

You will get to

• Define and evolve a cohesive product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for your area of the AI SDLC, grounded in developer research and measurement frameworks such as DORA and SPACE.
• Treat the platform as a product, drawing on operating models such as Team Topologies: establish golden paths, paved-road templates, and self-service capabilities so that the supported path is the fastest and most obvious one for engineers.
• Embed AI-native developer tooling and agents across the workflow, from authoring through review and release, so that AI…