Senior Product Manager, Data Platform (Orchestration)

About the teamAt Zillow Group, our mission is to empower people to unlock life’s next chapter. The Data Platform Product team enables product, analytics, and AI teams to move faster by providing reliable, scalable, and governed platform infrastructure.
The Orchestration team defines how data and capabilities are accessed and invoked across Zillow, spanning Graph, APIs, AI tools, and workflows. This includes MCP Gateway, the runtime layer that allows AI agents to securely invoke internal tools, and ZG Graph (GraphQL), the unified access layer for cross-domain data. The team also owns the broader orchestration layer that connects data, services, and AI systems into a consistent platform.
Together, this team shapes how systems interact across Zillow, enabling consistent, governed, and scalable integration across product, analytics, and AI use cases.

About the role

As a Senior Product Manager for Data Orchestration, you will define how applications and AI agents securely and reliably access and compose data and capabilities across Zillow. You will own strategy and execution across MCP Gateway and ZG Graph, establishing consistent access patterns, authentication and authorization standards, operational excellence bars, and scalable onboarding models.

This role is foundational infrastructure. Gaps in reliability or governance impact multiple products and AI workflows simultaneously. You will balance platform hardening with adoption growth, evolving the orchestration layer from fragmented integrations into trusted Tier-0 infrastructure.

Your work will directly shape how data and AI capabilities are accessed, composed, and governed across the enterprise.

You Will Get To

• Own the Data Orchestration roadmap end-to-end across MCP Gateway and ZG Graph, defining clear problem statements, success metrics, and platform adoption targets

• Define and evolve the unified access model for how applications and AI agents interact with data and capabilities, spanning GraphQL, APIs, and AI tool invocation

• Enable Data Mesh adoption by defining and scaling domain-driven access patterns, aligning orchestration with domain models, lifecycle contracts, and cross-domain interoperability

• Establish and uphold the operational excellence bar for the orchestration layer, including availability, latency, observability, and incident response standards

• Define authentication, authorization, and access patterns that enable secure, scalable interaction across data, services, and AI-powered tools

• Design and operationalize governance models for access and orchestration, including lifecycle expectations, versioning standards, and ownership clarity across domains

• Create paved paths and platform primitives that reduce onboarding friction while preventing fragmented or unmanaged integration patterns

• Drive adoption of MCP Gateway and ZG Graph as the default access layer through structured rollouts, enablement, and measurable impact

• Use reliability, adoption, and governance metrics to continuously improve platform performance and prioritize platform hardening versus expansion

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

In California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $148,600.00 - $237,400.00 annually. This base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations. In Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont the standard base pay range for this role is $141,200.00 - $225,600.00 annually. The base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations.

In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on 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

• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally building internal platforms, APIs, gateways, developer infrastructure, or data systems that support multiple teams

• Strong technical fluency in distributed systems, service-to-service communication, authentication patterns, APIs, and platform architecture concepts, with the ability to reason about reliability and security tradeoffs

• Proven ability to define platform strategy and operating models that scale beyond initial experimentation into production-grade infrastructure

• Demonstrated experience leading migrations, consolidations, or standardization efforts across fragmented systems

• Clear, structured communicator who can influence engineers and stakeholders through data, operational reasoning, and strong product judgment

• Comfortable driving behavioral change and adoption across multiple teams, balancing enablement with governance

• Able to operate in ambiguity and impose structure on complex, cross-functional infrastructure initiatives

• Excited to work in a highly collaborative environment where you partner closely with engineering, data science, AI, and product teams to deliver company-wide impact

• Here at Zillow, we value the experience and perspective of candidates with non-traditional backgrounds. We encourage you to apply if you have transferable skills or related experiences.

Get to know us

At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers. As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., we help customers navigate buying, selling, financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Whether you're working in tech, sales, operations, or design, you’ll be part of a company that's reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality.

Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the country. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2025, and included on the PEOPLE Companies That Care® 2025 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.

No matter where you sit in the organization, your work will help drive innovation, support our customers, and move the industry—and your career—forward, together.

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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.