Senior Product Manager

Zillow Group is committed to empowering people to unlock life’s next chapter. As a Senior Product Manager for Data Orchestration, you will define how applications and AI agents securely access and compose data across Zillow, owning strategy and execution for the MCP Gateway and ZG Graph.

Responsibilities:

• Own the Data Orchestration roadmap end-to-end across MCP Gateway and ZG Graph, defining clear problem statements, success metrics, and platform adoption targets
• Define and evolve the unified access model for how applications and AI agents interact with data and capabilities, spanning GraphQL, APIs, and AI tool invocation
• Enable Data Mesh adoption by defining and scaling domain-driven access patterns, aligning orchestration with domain models, lifecycle contracts, and cross-domain interoperability
• Establish and uphold the operational excellence bar for the orchestration layer, including availability, latency, observability, and incident response standards
• Define authentication, authorization, and access patterns that enable secure, scalable interaction across data, services, and AI-powered tools
• Design and operationalize governance models for access and orchestration, including lifecycle expectations, versioning standards, and ownership clarity across domains
• Create paved paths and platform primitives that reduce onboarding friction while preventing fragmented or unmanaged integration patterns
• Drive adoption of MCP Gateway and ZG Graph as the default access layer through structured rollouts, enablement, and measurable impact
• Use reliability, adoption, and governance metrics to continuously improve platform performance and prioritize platform hardening versus expansion

Requirements:

• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally building internal platforms, APIs, gateways, developer infrastructure, or data systems that support multiple teams
• Strong technical fluency in distributed systems, service-to-service communication, authentication patterns, APIs, and platform architecture concepts, with the ability to reason about reliability and security tradeoffs
• Proven ability to define platform strategy and operating models that scale beyond initial experimentation into production-grade infrastructure
• Demonstrated experience leading migrations, consolidations, or standardization efforts across fragmented systems
• Clear, structured communicator who can influence engineers and stakeholders through data, operational reasoning, and strong product judgment
• Comfortable driving behavioral change and adoption across multiple teams, balancing enablement with governance
• Able to operate in ambiguity and impose structure on complex, cross-functional infrastructure initiatives
• 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