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Company

Original Job Post

Zillow · 2 days ago

Principal Information Architecture Strategist

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$168K/yr - $268K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Develop and communicate a 6-12 month vision to senior stakeholders and partner teams of a “north star IA” to inform long-term planning, including accurate details and transparency on risks and impediments. Proactively build relationships with those outside of your immediate team resulting in horizontal influence.

Design enterprise-wide information architecture and integration strategies across multiple platforms, technologies and/or software systems. Articulate the information architecture that will go to the Zillow end user.

Define clear and actionable problem statements to help teams deliver results while displaying a comprehensive understanding of ontologies and OOUX

Define and enable the near-term IA roadmap to deliver on business outcomes, quickly identifying points of leverage in complex problems or systems, and utilizing data effectively to define success metrics and measurable outcomes

Utilize balanced judgment in decisions about risks of both actions taken and not taken while innovating on ways to iterate faster in a well-managed way for immediate teams you’re working with

Understand and leverage end-state architecture vision in partnership with Engineering, Data Science, Product, and Design teams to support the development and integration of semantics in Zillow products and services, driving comprehensive design decisions

Collaborate with partner teams to articulate use cases, objectives, and architectural designs that support business goals

Deliver value by creating reusable, extensible and resilient capabilities

Contribute to team culture and recruiting by mentoring and developing junior IA associates

Communicate and advocate the value of Zillow’s efforts in ontologies, semantics, OOUX, and standardization across the business

Maintain awareness of competitor and industry developments related to ontology use, knowledge organization, and OOUX

Develop standards, guidelines, and direction for ontology, semantics, and data standardization in general at Zillow Group.

Qualification

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Information architectureSitemapsUXUIService designIA strategy alignmentConceptual modelsIndustry standardsOpen source data setsKnowledge organizationPlatform strategiesSemantic enrichmentResponsible AICommunicationFacilitationCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

8+ years as a design strategist, information architect, design lead, or similar role

Strong communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills

Possess strong problem-solving skills for helping users navigate complex products

Can clearly communicate about sitemaps and design choices with other team members, including UX, UI, and service designers

Able to communicate effectively with senior leadership across multiple disciplines to align on a longer-term IA strategy that’s good for both the customer and business

Clearly communicate IA conceptual models (and the significance of them) to product and design partners

Able to communicate and advocate the value of using industry standards, applications, and open source data sets for IA

Able to analyze and implement knowledge organization & platform strategies using tools capable of semantic enrichment

Can articulate a point of view for how IA can enable more responsible AI in the future for organizations

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages

Parental leave

Family benefits

Retirement contributions

Paid time off

Company

Zillow

Glassdoor

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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.

Founded in 2005

Seattle, Washington, USA

5,001-10,000 employees

http://www.zillow.com

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