Principal BI Architect & Data-Product Leader

Zillow Group Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work across US

Equity awards

Competitive base salary

Job summary

Zillow Group is seeking a Principal Business Intelligence Manager to lead the data‑product direction and governance for the customer‑experience intelligence layer. You will shape the architecture, standards, and patterns that make analytics scalable and trusted across systems, with a hands‑on IC style and cross‑functional influence.

You will mentor BI professionals, align stakeholders from product to finance, and drive multi‑year roadmaps for analytics tooling and AI enablement in a remote USA

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data architecture, enterprise data modeling, analytics engineering, or business intelligence data-product leadership, including principal- or staff-level ownership.
• Expert SQL and data modeling, with experience designing architectures spanning multiple business domains, source systems, grains, and consumption patterns.
• Deep expertise in semantic-layer design, metrics-as-code patterns, metric-definition governance, reusable dimensional modeling, and data governance at organizational scale.
• Strong grasp of how AI systems, natural-language query experiences, and machine-learning workflows consume structured, governed data.
• Experience owning or heavily shaping taxonomy, source-of-truth, identity resolution, or semantic governance standards across competing stakeholders.
• Experience evaluating, adopting, or influencing organization-wide analytics-engineering tooling such as Databricks, dbt, Snowflake, semantic-layer platforms, or Tableau.
• Excellent communication and partner-management skills with a proven ability to gain alignment across product, engineering, analytics, finance, sales, operations, and executive stakeholders.
• Hands-on individual-contributor style with strong technical depth, credibility, and influence, accompanied by the ability to make judgment calls and facilitate cross-functional decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own target-state architecture, semantic layer strategy, taxonomy standards, identity strategy, and reusable data-product patterns.
• Design reusable semantic-layer and metrics-as-code patterns enabling governed metrics across Tableau, Databricks, self-service, and AI workflows.
• Drive alignment on metric definitions, taxonomy standards, source-of-truth expectations, data-product certification, cross-system identity.
• Lead cross-organizational data initiatives tied to company strategy, customer-experience priorities, AI enablement, and multi-year roadmaps.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Product Analytics, and central data-platform teams on implementation patterns and delivery.
• Set quality, monitoring, documentation, and reliability expectations for critical data products and reporting surfaces.
• Mentor senior BI Managers, analysts, and analytics engineers, shaping standards, patterns, and strategic direction across the organization.
• Hands-on contributor with technical depth and the ability to facilitate cross-functional decisions.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

Analytics engineering

Data governance

Communication

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Technical depth

Tools

Databricks

dbt

Snowflake

Semantic-layer platforms

Tableau

Job description

Zillow Group is seeking a Principal Business Intelligence Manager to lead the data‑product direction and governance for the customer‑experience intelligence layer. You will shape the architecture, standards, and patterns that make analytics scalable and trusted across systems, with a hands‑on IC style and cross‑functional influence.

You will mentor BI professionals, align stakeholders from product to finance, and drive multi‑year roadmaps for analytics tooling and AI enablement in a remote USA