Senior Manager, Product Design (UI/Visual)
About this role
About the team
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.
About the role
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.
In this role, you will
Lead a product design team focused on Zillow’s visual language
- Co-own the refinement of Zillow’s visual identity with the Brand and Studio teams, ensuring it works for Product use cases
- Own the application of Zillow’s visual identity in Product experiences, ensuring it meets real customer and Product-team needs while remaining thoughtful and consistent
- Set Product-focused visual principles, standards, and guidance that help teams create cohesive, high-quality interfaces
- Drive the evolution of the visual language of the design system, defining the Product-focused principles and guidance that shape how Zillow’s interfaces look and feel. Partner with Design Systems designers to evolve components and patterns around Product-team needs
- Engage early in priority concepts and launches to improve interface clarity, cohesion, and quality—and to identify needs that can be addressed through shared guidance or the design system
Mature our Visual Design practice and Partner Enablement programs
- Own and evolve the Partner Enablement program, pairing Foundations designers with Product Design teams to understand their needs, provide targeted guidance, and connect them with the right expertise across Design Foundations — including Design Systems, Visual Design, Engineering and Accessibility
- Use insights from those partnerships to strengthen the program and identify opportunities for focused guidance, shared solutions, and earlier collaboration with Product teams
- Mature our nascent Visual Design practice to give Product Design teams the guidance, tooling, feedback, and support to strengthen design craft in their work
- Partner 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
Who you are
Who you are
- A Product Design leader with a clear point of view on how visual craft creates clearer, more cohesive, and higher-quality product experiences for customers
- Brings a strong Product Design foundation and deep expertise in Visual Design or a related craft discipline, with fluency in UI design, typography, hierarchy, layout, interaction states, motion, iconography, and information design
- Experienced in refining and applying visual language in digital Product experiences, from concept through execution
- Leads through a specialized team—setting clear direction and priorities, providing thoughtful creative direction and feedback, and building the guidance, practices, and tools that scale visual quality across Product Design
- Builds a visual design practice that gives Product Design teams the guidance, feedback, and support to strengthen visual craft in their work
- A strong cross-functional partner who understands Product-team needs and uses clear communication and sound judgment to build alignment across complex work
- Embraces AI-native ways of working, using new tools to protect and improve design quality
Qualifications
- 8+ years of Product Design experience, with a Visual Design, brand, or digital-craft specialization
- 4+ years of experience managing and developing designers, including Senior and Principal individual contributors
- Experience leading a Visual Design practice, design-quality initiative, or related craft discipline — or serving as a senior craft expert within one — at a technology or product-focused organization
- Experience shipping digital products and bringing design work from concept through execution
- Experience partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Design Systems, and Brand, Marketing, or Content Design teams
- Experience translating visual standards into scalable systems, tooling, or workflows
- Portfolio demonstrating strong Product craft, clear creative direction, and thoughtful people leadership
Get to know us
At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers. As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., we help people navigate buying, selling, financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Whether you're working in tech, sales, operations, or design, you’ll be part of a company reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality.
How we work is a key part of that transformation. Through Cloud HQ, our strategic approach to distributed work, most employees have the flexibility to work from wherever they’re most productive—enabling us to move fast, stay connected and deliver on our people promise.
Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the U.S. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2026, and included on TIME’s America’s Best Companies 2026 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.
No matter where you sit in the organization, your work will help drive innovation, support our customers, and move the industry—and your career—forward, together.
Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local law.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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