Principal Product Manager, Design Systems & Accessibility

Overview

Principal Product Manager to shape product strategy for Zillow's design systems (Constellation) and digital accessibility, owning the integrated roadmap and building the measurement and operating model for both as products.

What you'll do

• Lead design systems product strategy and roadmaps, defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Zillow's design systems.
• Define and mature the data, success metrics, and measurement needed to manage product performance, demonstrate customer and business value, and guide roadmap and investment decisions.
• Prioritize investments that create leverage across teams, balancing new capabilities, adoption, system quality, support, accessibility, technical investment, and long-term scalability.
• Stay current on evolving design-system practices, accessibility standards, and AI-enabled development, translating material shifts into roadmap and investment decisions.
• Build a deep understanding of how designers, engineers, and product managers use foundational systems, including their workflows, needs, and friction points.
• Use internal customer discovery, adoption data, and product-health insights to inform roadmap decisions.
• Identify barriers to adoption and prioritize product, tooling, workflow, and enablement improvements that create the greatest leverage.
• Lead alignment across Design, Engineering, Product, and senior stakeholders on priorities, trade-offs, dependencies, and the value the systems deliver.
• Define product strategy and priorities for accessibility systems, tooling, and product-health capabilities.
• Develop the product approach to accessibility health observability, tooling, and integrations that help teams understand and improve the accessibility of Zillow's digital experiences.
• Evolve systems for automated accessibility checks (e.g., CI/CD checks), audits, and remediation so product teams can identify and own issues earlier.
• Use audit findings and other product-health signals to identify systemic issues and determine when problems should be solved centrally through design systems, tooling, or shared development mechanisms.
• Partner with the Principal Program Manager for Accessibility to translate enterprise priorities and risk into scalable product investments.
• Ensure design systems and accessibility standards evolve for AI-enabled workflows, making them easier for AI tools and agents to consume and apply.
• Partner across Design Tech, Engineering, and DevEx to shape and prioritize AI-enabled systems and tooling based on evolving technology, customer needs, product outcomes, and broader systems priorities.
• Evaluate how AI-enabled workflows affect adoption, accessibility, quality, and efficiency, and use those insights to inform future investment.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of product management or relevant experience.
• Led complex design systems, platforms, internal tools, or other horizontal products across multiple teams for 3+ years.
• Technical fluency to understand complex systems, navigate technical trade-offs, and be a credible partner to Design and Engineering.
• Committed to building accessible, inclusive digital products and motivated to deepen accessibility expertise.
• Strong product judgment; can synthesize complex, ambiguous inputs into clear product direction, strategy, priorities, and trade-offs.
• Experience using product data and measurement to understand performance, demonstrate customer and business value, and guide investment decisions.
• Communicates clearly with working teams and senior leaders, builds alignment on complex decisions, and influences partners and roadmaps without direct authority.
• Strong AI fluency, uses AI to improve own product-management work, and understands how AI is changing product development.

Nice to have

• Demonstrated expertise in design systems, including product-managing their strategy, adoption, governance, and evolution.
• Demonstrated experience advancing digital accessibility, including applying WCAG 2.2 Level AA in digital product development.
• Experience driving adoption of internal platforms or systems across distributed teams.
• Experience with AI-enabled development tools, MCPs, AI skills, agents, evaluation systems, or related emerging technologies.

Details

• Remote position; employee works 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.
• Base pay range $182,100–$290,900 annually in CA, CT, MD, MA, NJ, NY, WA state, and DC.
• Base pay range $173,000–$276,400 annually in CO, HI, IL, ME, MN, NV, OH, RI, VT, and VA.
• Eligible for equity awards based on experience, performance and location.