Principal Product Manager, Monetization

Zillow Zillow · Consumer · United States · Remote

Principal Product Manager for Monetization at Zillow, focusing on commercializing professional software products for real estate agents and brokers. This role involves defining product strategy, owning the monetization roadmap, and shaping reusable monetization capabilities across a portfolio of products. The ideal candidate will have experience with complex monetization systems, strong cross-functional influence, and AI fluency for accelerating their own work and identifying customer value.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and drive product strategy in a high-stakes, cross-functional environment, shaping direction in partnership with senior leaders across the company.
  2. Own a multi-quarter monetization roadmap end-to-end, from discovery and definition through launch and iteration.
  3. Define and evolve self-serve and sales-assisted monetization experiences that reduce friction, improve activation, and increase time-to-value for real estate professionals.
  4. Shape reusable monetization capabilities that can support multiple products and business models, rather than bespoke implementations for a single surface or team.
  5. Drive cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, design, sales, finance, legal, and operations, keeping complex, multi-team programs moving without direct authority.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of product management experience with direct ownership of complex, cross-functional product areas.
  • Demonstrated track record driving monetization, marketplace, or platform programs at scale, ideally in B2B or B2B2C contexts.
  • Experience owning complex monetization systems, such as shopping, onboarding, entitlements, billing and payments, pricing, or packaging.
  • Principal-level judgment: proven ability to define product strategy, sequence multi-quarter roadmaps, and navigate ambiguity in fast-moving organizations.
  • Strong cross-functional influence skills: experience aligning engineering, design, sales, finance, legal, and operations around a shared roadmap and driving decisions without direct authority.
  • Strong product and business judgment: comfortable sizing business impact, identifying measurement gaps, and using quantitative, qualitative, and customer insights to guide prioritization and tradeoffs.
  • Proven ability to synthesize complexity quickly, ramp on new domains, and pivot with confidence when priorities shift.

Nice to have

  • Experience with enterprise or hierarchical purchasing models, experimentation and funnel optimization, or the real estate industry is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI fluency: demonstrated use of AI tools to accelerate your own work, with a clear point of view on where AI capabilities can drive meaningful customer value in the product.