Zillow Group

Zillow Group

Principal Design Technologist, AI Design Tools

Remote-USA · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$178k-$285kDetected 27 days ago
iOSFigmaDesign SystemsAccessibilityCustomer SupportResearchPublic Speaking

About the role

  • Author starter templates for Zillow's highest-traffic surfaces so designers, PMs, and researchers can prototype production-credible UIs without starting from a blank prompt.
  • Treat Constellation's documentation as a product whose users include LLMs.
  • Work with the system team on machine-readable metadata and a trust-level model for what agents can change unsupervised.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • We're hiring a Principal Design Technologist to own AI design tooling for builders across Zillow.
  • Zillow's product, engineering, and design teams use AI daily to create experiences for web, iOS, and Android.
  • Because no standard workflow exists, teams apply our design system, brand guidelines, and accessibility specs in their own way, leading to wasted effort and inconsistent results.
  • This role owns the end-to-end design tooling ecosystem and sets the standard for how AI-augmented design happens at Zillow.
  • Identify where AI design tooling pays off most, from early explorations through production-ready prototypes, and prioritize where Zillow needs to own the tool versus pass through to a vendor.
  • Zillow Experience Design (ZxD) shapes how people discover, buy, sell, and rent homes.
  • Within ZxD, the Design Foundations team integrates Zillow's design language into the workflows of every designer, engineer, researcher, and product manager.
  • We own the accessibility, design systems, brand, and content standards that create a high-quality, harmonious experience.
  • Unify ZxD's AI design tooling into one supported set

Requirements

  • You've shipped infrastructure that other designers and engineers actually adopted, and you can talk specifically about how you earned that adoption.
  • Production experience shipping internal-facing tooling for designers or engineers that measurably changed how a team worked.
  • You can write a clear doc, run a credible technical review, and represent your work to a director-level audience.
  • You've moved senior leaders' decisions with data and a clear point of view, and you can show specific examples.
  • Must have
  • 8+ years of relevant experience across design, and front-end engineering, with meaningful depth across one or more areas.
  • Production experience shipping internal-facing tooling for designers or engineers that measurably changed how a team worked. Examples: a Figma plugin used at scale, an MCP server in production, a Skill or extension with documented adoption, a component library or token pipeline with real downstream consumers.
  • Strong fluency with modern AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar) and the patterns that make them productive in real codebases: structured context, retrieval, agent skills, evals, tool integration.
  • Strong front-end engineering depth. Comfortable opening PRs in real repos, including the design system codebase.
  • Working knowledge of design systems: component libraries, tokens, primitives, accessibility, multi-brand or multi-surface theming.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate technical work to senior design and product leaders, and to translate between disciplines. You can write a clear doc, run a credible technical review, and represent your work to a director-level audience.
  • Track record of cross-functional partnership: building durable working relationships with design, engineering, product, and co-owning roadmaps and decisions across those boundaries.
  • Stakeholder influence. You've moved senior leaders' decisions with data and a clear point of view, and you can show specific examples.

Nice to have

  • Experience running adoption and enablement efforts (training, guides, comms) as a complement to infrastructure.
  • Experience with eval frameworks, visual diffing, or AI output benchmarking against a defined quality bar.
  • Public work in this space: open source, conference talks, agent plugins or skill.
  • If this sounds like the role you've been waiting for someone to write, we want to talk.
  • Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the country.
  • Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees.
  • 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

Skills

  • Stand up lightweight evaluation patterns those teams can adopt.
  • Strong fluency with modern AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor,

Compensation

  • In California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $178,300.00 - $284,700.00 annually.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • al employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status
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