Director, Engineering - Listings and Evaluation

Zillow Zillow · Consumer · WA · Remote

Director of Engineering leading teams focused on Zillow's For Sale Home Details Page and listing evaluation experiences. The role involves shaping customer-facing products that leverage listing data, media, personalization, and AI capabilities to help customers understand and evaluate homes. It requires strong technical judgment, people leadership, and cross-functional partnership to drive engineering strategy and execution for AI-powered shopping and evaluation experiences.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead multiple engineering teams across web, iOS, Android, and backend that power Zillow’s listings and evaluation experiences, including the Home Details Page.
  2. Set the engineering strategy for experiences that help customers evaluate homes with greater clarity and confidence.
  3. Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, AI, and adjacent engineering teams to deliver high-impact customer experiences across Zillow’s shopping journey.
  4. Guide the development of AI-powered shopping and evaluation experiences that make Zillow more helpful and differentiated for customers.
  5. Coach and grow engineering leaders, helping them build healthy teams, strengthen technical judgment, and support career development for engineers and managers.

Skills

Required

  • Experience leading multiple software engineering teams through managers
  • growing both managers and senior engineers
  • Experience improving engineering productivity, quality, and ways of working across multiple teams or a broader organization
  • track record of delivering consumer-facing product experiences at scale
  • balancing customer impact, technical quality, reliability, and speed
  • turn broad product or business goals into clear engineering direction and aligned execution
  • sound technical judgment
  • engage on architecture, delivery tradeoffs, and system evolution
  • improving execution and operational rigor
  • strong communicator

Nice to have

  • Experience leading engineering for shopping, marketplace, or decision-support product experiences

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-powered shopping and evaluation experiences
  • apply emerging capabilities in practical ways

Other signals

  • AI capabilities
  • AI-powered shopping and evaluation experiences
  • apply emerging capabilities in practical ways