Principal Design Technologist, AI Design Tools

About the team

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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. About the role ------------------

We're hiring a Principal Design Technologist to own AI design tooling for builders across Zillow. You'll sit on the Design Foundations team and own how ZxD’s design language, systems, and standards integrate into AI tools. These AI tools will be used to create user-facing experiences, including early explorations, eng-ready prototypes, and production code.

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. Rather than relying on training presentations to drive adoption, this role focuses on shipping high-quality tools that provide clear value and integrating them into existing workflows on a paved path. Success requires identifying effective AI workflows, developing the necessary tools & infrastructure, and collaborating to scale them.

In this role, you will

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Unify ZxD's AI design tooling into one supported set

• Bring the scattered AI design tools builders are already using into a coherent, supported stack with clear rules of the road.
• Decide which tools and workflows we invest in, which we partner around, and which we leave alone.
• Identify where AI design tooling pays off most, from early explorations through production-rea...