Senior Product Manager, Data Platform

Zillow Group is a leading real estate platform dedicated to empowering individuals in their life transitions. The Senior Product Manager for Data Platforms will define the strategy and execution for Zillow's event-driven systems, ensuring seamless integration and real-time data connectivity to enhance customer experiences and drive innovation across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Own the roadmap for one or more data platform capabilities from discovery through launch and iteration, defining clear problems, success metrics, and priorities based on customer needs and business goals
• Build deep empathy for internal customers—including engineers, analysts, and data scientists—to ensure platforms are intuitive, reliable, and reduce friction for teams producing and consuming data
• Partner closely with engineering, data science, AI, and product teams to shape solutions, make thoughtful trade‑offs, and ensure platform capabilities meet real‑world usage needs across Zillow
• Establish and evolve the standards, tooling, and operating model for our eventing platform so teams can consistently build, integrate, and launch event‑driven experiences at scale
• Drive usage and adoption of data platform capabilities through thoughtful rollouts, enablement, documentation, and clear feedback loops with partner teams
• Measure and communicate impact using adoption, reliability, and developer‑experience metrics, and use these insights to prioritize improvements and inform the roadmap
• Champion event‑driven architecture and platform best practices across Zillow, helping teams launch new experiences, share data, and respond to customer actions in real time

Requirements:

• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally building internal platforms or data products that support multiple teams and use cases
• Strong technical fluency with data platforms, event‑driven systems, pipelines, APIs, and core platform‑architecture concepts, and the ability to understand and discuss technical trade‑offs without being an engineer
• Proven ability to define and evolve platform strategy—distilling what customers truly need in the long term versus what they are asking for in the moment
• Demonstrated track record of delivering complex products end‑to‑end, with strong prioritization and decision‑making skills in ambiguous, fast‑changing environments
• Clear, concise communicator who can translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences and influence engineers and stakeholders through data, customer insights, and strong product judgment
• Comfortable driving adoption and change across multiple teams, using metrics, feedback, and enablement to continuously improve the platform experience
• Excited to work in a highly collaborative environment where you partner closely with engineering, data science, AI, and product teams to deliver company‑wide impact