Principal Product Designer

Zillow Group; Myrtle Point (OR); Remote; USD 169,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading real estate technology company in the United States is looking for a Principal Product Designer to innovate and enhance digital experiences in home search and real estate transactions. Successful candidates should have over 7 years of product design experience, strong collaboration skills, and expertise in emerging technologies. This role offers a flexible, remote work environment and competitive benefits, contributing to making home a reality for many people.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

Parental leave

Paid time off

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a product designer or UX designer.
• Experience with emerging technologies and spatial design.
• Proven ability to thrive in ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Design digital experiences across multiple platforms.
• Advocate for customer needs.
• Lead design activities like prototyping and user testing.

Skills

Product design

UX design

Emerging technologies

Storytelling

Customer insights

Spatial/immersive design (3D/AR/VR)

Interaction design

Visual design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design or related field

Tools

Figma

Protopie

Job description

About the role

As a Principal Product Designer on the Design Technology and Artificial Intelligence team, you’ll help define the next generation of interactive and immersive experiences at Zillow. You’ll explore new ways for people to see, understand, and connect with homes through 3D, interactive media, and adaptive system-driven experiences.

This role sits at the frontier of design and technology at Zillow. You’ll explore new mediums and paradigms, quickly prototype ideas to test what’s possible, and translate those explorations into experiences that can scale. You’ll balance bold vision with high-quality execution — moving from early exploration to polished delivery — to bring new interaction models to life. Collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, and researchers, you’ll expand what’s possible in Zillow’s customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Design digital experiences across web, iOS, Android, and immersive media platforms
• Advocate for customer needs and ensure designs balance usability, innovation, and delight
• Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and other designers to shape immersive and media-rich experiences
• Architect the service design and information architecture powering automation-driven experiences
• Lead design activities like problem definition, storytelling, prototyping, journey mapping, and user testing
• Propose, test, and evaluate ideas that improve Zillow customer experiences
• Create coherency, interaction models, and UI patterns that scale across experiences
• Present design work, gather feedback, and align cross-functional partners
• Lead multiple projects independently and deliver high-quality work on time
• Partner with other designers to ensure design consistency and excellence
• Share expertise and mentorship to help others develop skills
• Contribute to the evolution of Zillow’s design practice in emerging media
• Contribute, learn, grow, and have fun!

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. Remote employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a location of their choice. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions. The base pay ranges for this role vary by location: in California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the range is $178,300 - $284,700 annually; in Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont the range is $169,300 - $270,500 annually. The base pay range may not be applicable to other locations. In addition to a competitive base salary this position is eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts vary by 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.

Who you are

• 7+ years as a product designer, UX designer, or design lead with a proven record of shipping impactful products
• Strong communication, collaboration, and storytelling skills
• Experience taking products from exploration to launch
• Proven ability to thrive in ambiguity and demonstrate high agency
• Experience with emerging technologies and building new types of customer experiences
• Ability to think in spatial and immersive design terms (3D/AR/VR experience is a plus)
• Experience identifying customer insights through user research and discovery activities
• Experience developing design strategies that address customer and business problems
• Experience crafting products and services using human-centered design principles
• Experience shipping products that get meaningful results for customers and businesses
• Experience making effective decisions and managing design project work
• Examples of complex, system-driven, or media-rich experiences in your portfolio
• Examples of creativity, critical thinking, and risk-taking in design projects
• Deep expertise in interaction and visual design craft
• Familiarity with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Protopie, or similar (experience with Unity/WebGL/ARKit is a plus)

Please submit a portfolio and resume with your application.

Here at Zillow, we value ALL candidates with a diverse set of backgrounds, experiences, and skills. If you have experience and meet at least some of the criteria, we encourage you to apply!

Get to know us

Zillow is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people.

As the most-visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates help movers find and win their home through digital solutions, first class partners, and easier buying, selling, financing and renting experiences. Millions of people visit Zillow Group sites every month to start their home search, and now they can rely on Zillow to help make it easier to move. The work we do helps people get home and no matter what job you’re in, you will play a critical role in making home a reality for more and more people.

Our efforts to streamline the real estate transaction are supported by a deep-rooted culture of innovation, our passion to redefine the employee experience, a fundamental commitment to Equity and Belonging, and world-class benefits. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages as well as parental leave, family benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off. We’re also setting the standard for work experiences of the future, where our employees are supported in doing their best work and living a flexible, well-balanced life. But don’t just take our word for it. Read recent reviews on Glassdoor and recent recognition from multiple organizations, including: the 100 Best Companies to Work For, Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equity Index, and TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.

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.

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