Data Scientist

Zillow Group Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Remote work

Job summary

Zillow Group’s Partner Analytics team is hiring a Data Scientist to lead analytics across our product portfolio and drive insights for better decisions and customer experiences. You will design, develop, and deploy end-to-end analytical and ML solutions, collaborating with product, engineering, and business teams to frame questions and define success metrics.

You will build scalable data pipelines, features, and models using modern ML tooling, ensure production reliability, and apply rigorous

Qualifications

• Lead analytics to uncover insights that drive business decisions and customer experiences across our product portfolio.
• Frame ambiguous questions into testable hypotheses, define success metrics, and translate requirements into analytics or modeling approaches.
• Build, validate, and maintain scalable data pipelines, features, and models using modern data and ML tooling.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to frame problems and drive data-informed decisions.
• Translate requirements into robust analytical or modeling approaches and communicate results clearly to diverse audiences.
• Apply sound experimentation practices (A/B testing, backtesting, error analysis) to measure impact and guide iteration.

Skills

Data science

Machine learning

SQL

Python

Experimentation

Communication

Job description

About the team

Zillow Group’s Business Data organization represents the next step forward in the company's dedication to integrate an improved set of B2B agent software & advertising products for customers and partners, their clients, and the real estate industry as a whole. Zillow has built and acquired a portfolio of market-leading products for agent productivity, listing media, showing coordination, transaction management and analytics solutions. Our wide array of products and services are built on technological innovations crafted to bring efficiencies to all users.

About the role

The Partner Analytics team within Business Data is hiring a Data Scientist to lead analytics to uncover insights to drive both better business decisions and customer experiences across our product portfolio. You will get to with guidance from your manger, lead the design, development, and deployment of end-to-end analytical and machine learning solutions that address moderately complex business problems and customer use cases. Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to frame ambiguous questions into testable hypotheses, define success metrics, and translate requirements into robust analytical or modeling approaches. Build, validate, and maintain scalable data pipelines, features, and models using modern data and ML tooling, ensuring reliability, reproducibility, and performance in production environments. Analyze large, complex datasets to uncover trends, drivers, and opportunities, and clearly communicate findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences. Apply sound experimentation and evaluation practices (e.g., A/B testing, backtesting, error analysis) to measure impact, compare alternatives, and guide iteration on models and data products. Contribute to shared standards, documentation, and best practices for data quality, model governance, and responsible use of data and AI within the Data Science community at Zillow. 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 $125,900.00 - $201,100.00 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, and Virginia the standard base pay range for this role is $119,600.00 - $191,000.00 annually. The base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations. In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. Employees in this role will not be paid below the salary threshold for exempt employees in the state where they reside.

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. At Zillow, flexibility isn’t a perk - it’s how we work. Cloud HQ is our distributed work model, built on trust, clear systems, and the belief that you can do great work from wherever you are. It’s not about where you work. It’s about moving forward - together.

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
• 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.