Senior Product Manager, Accounting

About the team

Technology and data underpin every facet of how Zillow Group operates, and the FinTech Product Management team sits at the intersection where business revenue and expense generation operations meet corporate applications for accounting, billing, payments, tax, treasury and procurement.

Join a dynamic team of FinTech Product Managers that deliver everything from large-scale technology solutions to small optimizations. We solve long-range problems and issues that unlock Zillow Group’s ability to scale, working in lock-step with our engineering partners via Scrum to deliver a portfolio of technology solutions that include a wide range of 3rd party SaaS products and custom developed applications.

About the role

 We are seeking a Senior Product Manager, Accounting and Data Platform to aid our accounting team in formulating and executing a data and tooling strategy for how data is created, used and reported for specific lines of business within Zillow group.

You will work closely with leaders in Finance, including Accounting, Billing, SOX, Legal and Tax to develop a platform for how financial and reporting data is created, transformed, used, and consumed by finance stakeholders and individual contributors.  

Collaboration is a key ingredient for success.  You must be able to recognize key dependencies across different teams and revenue generation products at Zillow to coordinate successful product launches with accurate and correct reporting.  You will also provide product consultancy and recommendations to your business partners, helping them to better understand trade-offs, interoperability, and maintenance costs, enabling them to select the right solution that will help them meet their business objectives. 

Primary responsibilities include:

• Develop a strategy and platform around data ingestion, transformation, and downstream usage via existing tooling such as Databricks, the FinTech Platform, Domo, Workday and other custom applications.

• Own responsibility for interfacing with various revenue generation teams to understand upcoming changes, understand accounting requirements and translate into functional requirements for execution.

• Collaborate with key Finance partners and subject matter experts to translate functional revenue generation product requirements into requirements for financial reporting, data management and journal entry creation.

• Collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data to define opportunity size, understand root cause of issues that help guide product planning and prioritization.

• Work across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) - able to define the problem in discovery, draft detailed requirements (user stories), plan development sprints, develop UAT plans, and support continuous releases.

• Implement large-scale 3rd party SaaS products, participate in RFPs, evaluate vendor demos/scorecard, create statement of work (SOW), broker detailed requirements, and develop cutover plans.

• Stakeholder management is paramount - communicate progress and findings to program leaders and other key partners, via product briefs, status updates, and demos.  Utilize tools such as Jira or other project management software.

• Working remotely requires effective asynchronous communication, must be able to formulate and express ideas effectively in written form. 

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $145,500.00 - $232,500.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC and may not be applicable to other locations.

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.

Who you are

• 4+ years’ FinTech experience working with enterprise financial applications (examples Workday, PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP), implementing large-scale 3rd party SaaS products and s