This role sits in Design Foundations within Zillow Experience Design and shapes product strategy for two foundational capabilities: design systems and digital accessibility. As the first dedicated product manager across these areas, it owns the integrated design-systems roadmap and leads the product approach to accessibility systems, tooling, and product health.
What you'll do
- Define and lead product vision, strategy, and roadmap for design systems
- Define and mature data, success metrics, and measurement for product performance
- Prioritize investments balancing new capabilities, adoption, quality, support, accessibility, and scalability
- Stay current on design-system practices, accessibility standards, and AI-enabled development
- Build deep understanding of how designers, engineers, and PMs use foundational systems
- Use customer discovery, adoption data, and product-health insights to inform roadmap
- Identify adoption barriers and prioritize product, tooling, workflow, and enablement improvements
- Lead alignment across Design, Engineering, Product, and senior stakeholders on priorities and trade-offs
- Define product strategy and priorities for accessibility systems, tooling, and product health
- Develop product approach to accessibility health observability, tooling, and integrations
- Evolve systems for automated accessibility checks, audits, and remediation
- Use audit findings and product-health signals to identify systemic issues
- Partner with Principal Program Manager for Accessibility to translate enterprise priorities into investments
- Ensure design systems and accessibility standards evolve for AI-enabled workflows
- Partner across Design Tech, Engineering, and DevEx to shape AI-enabled systems and tooling
- Evaluate how AI-enabled workflows affect adoption, accessibility, quality, and efficiency
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of product management or relevant experience
- 3+ years leading complex design systems, platforms, internal tools, or horizontal products across teams
- Systems thinking and technical fluency to navigate complex trade-offs
- Commitment to building accessible, inclusive digital products
- Strong product judgment synthesizing ambiguous inputs into clear direction
- Experience using product data and measurement to guide investment decisions
- Clear communication with teams and senior leaders, influencing without direct authority
- Strong AI fluency and understanding of how AI is changing product development
Nice to have
- Demonstrated expertise product-managing design systems strategy, adoption, governance, and evolution
- Demonstrated experience advancing digital accessibility, including applying WCAG 2.2 Level AA
- Experience driving adoption of internal platforms or systems across distributed teams
- Experience with AI-enabled development tools, MCPs, AI skills, agents, or evaluation systems
Good to know
- Remote position, no permanent corporate office required
- Employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions
