Zillow · 17 hours ago
Principal Portfolio Manager, For Sale
Zillow is a leading real estate platform dedicated to helping customers navigate buying, selling, financing, and renting. The Principal Portfolio Manager, For Sale is responsible for portfolio-level leadership across Zillow’s For Sale ecosystem, ensuring strategic alignment and coherence across multiple teams and investments.
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Responsibilities
Own the For Sale product and technology portfolio view, ensuring alignment to company strategy, customer outcomes, and business priorities
Support and maintain a clear For Sale portfolio 3 year outlook, reflecting agreed strategy, sequencing, and trade-offs across multiple business lines and teams
Provide horizontal visibility across the For Sale ecosystem by identifying cross-team dependencies, overlaps, gaps, and risks that impact strategic outcomes
Support prioritization and decision-making by partnering with Product, Design, Engineering, Business, and Finance leaders to evaluate trade-offs and investment choices
Translate portfolio intent into clarity for execution by partnering with Program Managers and delivery leaders who own timelines, milestones, and delivery plans
Partner closely with Rhythm of the Business (RoB) to ensure For Sale portfolio planning aligns with company-level planning, metrics, and communication rhythms
Enable executive decision-making by synthesizing portfolio health, progress toward outcomes, and emerging risks into clear, actionable narratives
Continuously improve portfolio practices, tools, and artifacts to increase clarity, alignment, and value realization across the For Sale ecosystem
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in portfolio management, product operations, product strategy, or equivalent roles, with demonstrated ownership of large, multi-team horizontal product ecosystems
Proven ability to operate at a portfolio altitude, connecting strategy, investment decisions, and long-range planning to execution outcomes through others
Strong fluency across product, design, engineering, and business, with the ability to understand how decisions in one area impact the broader system
Exceptional systems thinker who naturally sees connections, dependencies, and trade-offs across teams and platforms
Highly effective at influencing without authority in complex, matrixed organizations
Experience supporting prioritization, sequencing, and investment decisions in partnership with senior leaders
Strong communication and storytelling skills, able to synthesize complexity into narratives executives can act on
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and shaping clarity where none exists
Proven track record of leading change and driving alignment across diverse stakeholder groups
Benefits
Equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location
Company
Zillow
Zillow is an online real estate marketplace for finding and sharing information about homes, real estate, and mortgages. It is a sub-organization of Zillow Group.
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$96.63MKey Investors
Legg MasonPAR Capital Management
2016-08-01Post Ipo Equity
2014-04-01Post Ipo Equity
2012-12-12Post Ipo Equity· $4.13M
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