Manager, Key Account Partnerships
Zillow
About the team
Zillow Group is transforming the real estate transaction—and our partners are at the center of that journey. As a Manager, Partner Operations, you’ll lead a team of Growth Advisors, who are consulting Zillow’s highest-performing real estate partners. These include top agents, team leads, and brokers operating in our Enhanced Markets.You’ll be a coach, problem solver, and resource to drive performance optimization, conversion improvement, and Zillow platform adoption. Your mission: drive behavior change, improve partner outcomes, and unlock scalable growth through the strategic influence and operational coaching conducted by your team.
About the role
Be a Trusted Leader
Serve as the day-to-day support and guide to your team of Growth Advisors.
Recruit, mentor, and develop a diverse team, leveraging Zillow's Leadership Expectations and Behaviors
Guide your team through change and implementation of new initiatives and strategy
Drive Performance
Champion Zillow’s integrated tools, including Zillow Home Loans, FUB/CRM features, Spruce title and escrow, Seller Leads and new platform capabilities.
Guide your team and our real estate partners through onboarding, enablement, and scaling—ensuring they adopt systems that support efficiency and delivering the integrated transaction to consumers.
Use Data to Drive Action
Analyze lead conversion, close rates, and partner behavior using Salesforce and BI tools like Tableau.
Translate insights into actionable strategies and coach your team and partners toward improved results.
Challenge and Influence
Apply insight-led sales techniques (Challenger methodology, consultative selling) to help partners evolve their processes.
Push team members and partners to think differently about how they grow, staff, and manage their teams.
Build relationships internally to help drive performance, remove roadblocks, and provide insights.
Master Your Markets
Stay informed on local real estate market trends, regulations, and competitive dynamics.
Build relationships with key partners, representing the voice of partner and sales for your assigned geography.
Who you are
5+ years of experience in account management, real estate consulting, sales enablement, or B2B client success
3+ years of sales leadership experience
Strong background in real estate, proptech, or performance-based partner programs preferred
Ability to influence without authority and challenge established thinking through data and insight
Familiar with tools like Salesforce, Tableau, or other BI dashboards
Comfortable working independently in a field-based role with frequent partner travel (in-person meetings required)
Proven track record of leading in a dynamic, consultative, high-client touch environment.
Excellent communicator who can tailor insights to varied audiences both internally and externally
Proactive, analytical, and relentlessly focused on improving partner and consumer outcomes.
Get to know us
At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers. As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., we help customers navigate buying, selling, financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Whether you're working in tech, sales, operations, or design, you’ll be part of a company that's reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality.
Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the country. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2025, and included on the PEOPLE Companies That Care® 2025 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.
No matter where you sit in the organization, your work will help drive innovation, support our customers, and move the industry—and your career—forward, together.
Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.
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; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. 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. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.