Principal Product Designer

Zillow

91d • $173,300 - $276,800

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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 a plus)

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!

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages
• Parental leave
• Family benefits
• Retirement contributions
• Paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees