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Principal Data Scientist

Zillow · Remote-USA · Remote

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About Zillow

The leading real estate marketplace. Search millions of for-sale and rental listings, compare Zestimate® home values and connect with local professionals.

About the role

We are seeking a Principal Data Scientist to be a measurement and impact partner in CoreTech. This is a senior individual-contributor role embedded with the Data & Infrastructure Platform team and who will partner tightly with Product leadership. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Executive translator. You can land a measurement narrative with a VP or Senior Director without losing rigor — and you know which assumptions to surface up and which to keep in the appendix
More about this role

At Zillow Group, our mission is to help more people get home. The CoreTech Org delivers on this mission by building the foundational platforms, data, and developer capabilities that power every consumer, partner, and employee experience at Zillow.

You will work most closely with the Connections Platform (CP) — the engine that turns consumer interest into a connection with the right partner, owning the conversational experience, the lead funnel and follow-up workflows, and the shared agent services that sit underneath both. Increasingly, that experience is powered by LLM-based and agentic systems: agents that qualify leads, summarize and extract intelligence from conversations for partner teams, and drive proactive outreach. Beyond CP, you will be a measurement partner for the broader CoreTech Org — the foundational platforms every consumer, partner, and employee experience at Zillow is built on — wherever a hard data science problem needs an owner.

These are platforms with hundreds of touchpoints and dozens of dependent teams — and they have historically been among the hardest places at Zillow to measure well. CP itself is mid-transformation, shifting from NLP to LLM and...

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