Senior Product Counsel, Mortgages

🕒 October 5

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $164.4k - $262.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Zillow

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2006

🏠 Real Estate

🛍️ eCommerce

👥 B2C

💰 $4.1M Post-IPO Equity on 2012-12

Real Estate • eCommerce • B2C

Zillow is a leading real estate and property rental marketplace that provides comprehensive information on homes, apartments, and properties for sale or rent. It offers users tools to search for properties, calculate mortgage rates, and connect with real estate agents. The platform also features innovative algorithms that provide Zestimates, which are estimated market values of homes. Zillow is a go-to resource for individuals looking to buy, sell, or rent properties, as well as for agents and brokers who want to reach a wider audience.

📋 Description

• Serve as primary day-to-day legal point of contact for assigned Zillow Home Loans mortgage products • Provide full lifecycle counsel from concept and design through launch and iteration • Advise product and engineering teams on state and federal mortgage regulatory requirements • Partner with AI/ML engineering teams on compliance guardrails for AI-enabled and agentic features • Test model outputs and develop evaluation criteria for legal and regulatory compliance • Provide risk-calibrated guidance on product design and disclosures • Embed with business partners on first-impression issues, pilot programs, and key initiatives • Deliver legal risk analysis and recommendations to senior management • Draft, review, and negotiate commercial and data-rights agreements • Partner with compliance, privacy, fair lending, marketing, and communications teams • Educate product, engineering, and business partners on mortgage and lending legal requirements

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience with a national or regional law firm or in-house legal department • Meaningful consumer finance, mortgage, or product counseling experience • In-house experience at a mortgage lender, fintech, or prop tech company strongly preferred • JD • Active state bar admission in at least one jurisdiction • Substantive command of the mortgage and consumer lending regulatory framework, including RESPA, TILA, ECOA, UDAAP, and state mortgage licensing • Experience advising on product development • Experience drafting and negotiating vendor, technology, or services agreements • General familiarity with GLBA, TCPA, and emerging state and federal AI/algorithmic regulation is a plus • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Strong organizational skills and ability to independently manage competing, time-sensitive projects • Sound judgment about when to decide, consult a subject matter expert, or elevate a matter • Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships and collaborate across departments and levels

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location • Remote work from a physical location of the employee's choice within eligible U.S. locations • Employees will not be paid below the salary threshold for exempt employees in the state where they reside • Equal employment opportunity and accommodation support

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