Zillow
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Principal Portfolio Manager, Enterprise
Location
California + 15 moreAll locations: California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$178.3K - $284.7K / year
10 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Own the enterprise portfolio narrative across shared identity, infrastructure, data/AI, and design foundations.
• Maintain a multi-year enterprise portfolio outlook that reflects modernization needs, lifecycle management, scalability goals, and cross-platform sequencing.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Data, Finance, and Strategy leaders to evaluate and prioritize foundational investments.
• Make trade-offs explicit — balancing reliability, innovation, technical debt reduction, cost, and business enablement.
• Provide visibility into cross-platform dependencies, systemic risks, and architectural sequencing constraints.
• Enable funding and capacity allocation decisions by framing enterprise investments in terms of business impact, risk mitigation, and long-term value.
• Translate technical portfolio complexity into clear executive narratives that support planning cycles and decision forums.
• Improve portfolio governance, intake, and investment clarity across shared platforms.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in portfolio management, product operations, technology strategy, enterprise platforms, or related roles.
- Experience operating across large-scale, multi-team platform or infrastructure environments.
- Strong technical fluency — able to understand architectural concepts, platform modernization, data ecosystems, and engineering trade-offs without acting as the architect.
- Proven ability to operate at enterprise portfolio altitude, connecting multi-year strategy, funding decisions, and execution realities.
- Demonstrated experience balancing innovation investments with reliability, scalability, and technical debt reduction.
- Exceptional systems thinker who sees cross-platform interdependencies and second-order impacts.
- Experience influencing senior engineering and executive leaders in complex, matrixed organizations.
- Strong executive communication skills, able to synthesize technical complexity into clear, business-aligned decision narratives.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and shaping clarity where none exists.
- Experience supporting prioritization and investment decisions with senior technical and executive leaders.
- Highly effective influencing without authority in matrixed organizations.
- Strong executive communication skills, translating technical complexity into business-aligned decision narratives.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and shaping clarity across technical domains.
Benefits
- In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.
- Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location.
- Employees in this role will not be paid below the salary threshold for exempt employees in the state where they reside.
