Principal Product Designer, Information Architecture
Zillow
About the team
The Zillow Experience Design (ZxD) team is a fast-paced, collaborative, and driven product design team. We’re a tight-knit, fun-loving, and upbeat group. Meet us and learn more (https://www.zillow.com/careers/design/ (https://www.zillow.com/careers/design/))We build experiences we love. Experiences that are useful, usable, and innovative for Zillow customers. Our team cares deeply about solving problems for real people. We challenge the status quo and seek to make everything better than we found it.
The Zillow Mover Experience team is looking for a Principal Product Designer to join us with an opportunity to make a big impact at Zillow. This person will partner with a senior team to re-envision the future IA and foundation for Zillow. Success in this role will be longterm transformation of our product through compelling foundational IA and navigation, and design solutions and systems to support a wide range of user needs and team goals.
With opportunities for professional growth and exciting projects, this role offers a unique chance to shape the future of the industry with a market-leading company.
About the role
As a principal product designer, you’re responsible for uncovering insights, building a strong opinion, setting a high quality vision, and articulating your vision through impressive designs and compelling experiences. As a design leader, you develop positive relationships, provide mentorship to other designers, and work with others to elevate design quality. You will play a critical role in how Zillow realizes that vision, helping us shape and deliver high quality and innovative experiences that will build momentum for our teams, customers, and business. Our mission is to make Zillow the most-loved place to discover, buy, rent, or sell a home.
You Will Get To:
Leading design strategy, vision, and concepting for key initiatives that will shape the future of Zillow
Hands on design for digital experiences for web, iOS, Android, operator platforms, and real life
Advocate for customer needs and ensure that designs address customer goals
Collaborate with product managers, researchers, content designers, and engineers
Lead design activities like problem definition, storytelling, journey mapping, co-design sessions, prototyping, design critique, and user testing
Present design work and regularly engage with partners for feedback
Lead complex projects independently and deliver high-quality and innovative work on time
Partner with other designers to ensure design consistency and excellence
Share expertise, design critique, and mentorship to help others develop skills
Be a trendsetter in design, propose work that raises the quality bar of Zillow design
Contribute, learn, grow, and have fun!
Who you are
7-10 years as a product designer, user experience designer, design lead, or similar role
An exceptional designer with a focus on innovation, concepting, and high craft digital experiences
Strong visual design, user experience, and prototyping skills, animation experience a plus
Ability to interpret data and use it to inform strategic direction and design decisions
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Experience building relationships and working optimally with diverse, cross-functional teams
Someone who is on top of design trends and is always looking for ways to raise the bar
An advocate for designing and building for everyone with accessibility in mind
Experience providing critique and direction that helps designers deliver their best work
Experience pulling a thread of customer insights from user research
Experience crafting products and services using human-centered design principles
Experience shipping products that get meaningful results for customers and businesses
Not afraid to make a decision, take a risk, or try something new
Examples of high quality interaction, visual design work, and storytelling in a compelling design portfolio
Examples of critical thinking, creativity, and risk-taking in design projects
Expertise with Figma, and high fidelity prototyping tools
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.
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