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Principal Data Scientist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $182.1k - $290.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

📊 Data Scientist

Where this job comes from

Posted on Zillow's careers page, not through a job board

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Zillow

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

• Define and operationalize measurement strategy for the Connections Platform and broader Data & Infrastructure Platform • Quantify platform impact, outcomes, and business/revenue effects for executive decision-making • Define meaningful metrics, KPIs, dashboards, leading indicators, and lagging indicators • Build rigorous, repeatable evaluations for LLM-based and agentic systems, including LLM-as-a-judge and Braintrust tooling • Design and analyze A/B tests and quasi-experimental causal inference studies • Apply switchbacks, difference-in-difference, synthetic control, and interrupted time-series methods • Establish evaluation feedback loops separating activity and adoption from genuine quality and outcomes • Partner with engineers to instrument events, schemas, pipelines, metrics, and dashboards • Translate complex measurement findings and trade-offs for VP and C-level stakeholders • Set measurement standards for platform teams and support Platform-as-a-Product measurement • Assess multi-dimensional product changes affecting consumers, partners, developers, business, and revenue

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in Data Science, UX Research, or Applied Science • Meaningful experience measuring products where the customer is a developer, internal team, or platform • Experience designing evaluations for complex user-facing systems, including LLM-as-a-judge and human review • Production experience with A/B testing and causal inference methodology • Experience designing primary metrics, KPIs, OKR metric definitions, and leading/lagging indicator systems • Ability to design event taxonomies, schemas, and instrumentation with engineering teams • Proficiency in Python and SQL • Ability to translate measurement narratives for VP and C-level partners • PhD and 4+ years, MS and 6+ years, or BS and 8+ years of experience in a quantitative field (listed under preferred qualifications) • Direct experience measuring complex production systems, including conversational, LLM-based, or agentic products • Experience with modern evaluation methods and offline/online evaluation harnesses • Experience measuring AI or agentic tooling impact on productivity, quality, outcomes, and ROI • Experience with Platform-as-a-Product models • Fluency with quasi-experimental and causal inference methods, including difference-in-difference, synthetic control, interrupted time-series, and switchback/interleaved designs

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity awards based on experience, performance, and location • Remote work from a physical location of choice • Flexible work from wherever employees are most productive through Cloud HQ • Professional growth and development opportunities • Inclusive and innovative workplace culture

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