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

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.In California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $196,700.00 - $314,300.00 annually. This base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations.In Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont,…