Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zillow is a real estate technology company that helps people navigate buying, selling, financing, and renting. The Senior Product Counsel will advise Zillow’s brokerage operations and designated consumer and B2B products on real estate regulatory matters, product development, commercial agreements, and legal risk while partnering with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary legal POC for Zillow’s brokerage operations and the team’s subject matter expert on licensed real estate activities, with particular focus on products that intersect with licensed activity
Provide full lifecycle product counsel for designated consumer and/or B2B products across a broad range of legal matters including regulatory compliance, data licensing, product design and commercial agreements
Provide legal support to our industry affairs team including MLS escalations, emerging industry issues, and related strategic initiatives
Embed yourself with business partners and provide strategic and pragmatic legal counsel for issues of first impression, pilot programs, and other key initiatives, including legal risk analysis and recommendations to senior management
Proactively partner with cross-functional business teams and shared services (e.g., privacy, fair housing, finance, compliance, communications, and marketing) to identify and resolve novel legal matters that arise
Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements
Handle any real estate licensing complaints and investigations
Provide ad-hoc legal support and subject matter expertise to Government Relations, Litigation, Communications, and other shared services
Skills
7+ years of relevant experience with a national or regional law firm or in-house legal department, with substantial real estate regulatory and product counseling experience
A JD with active state bar admission in at least one jurisdiction
Experience with real estate regulatory frameworks, MLS policies, and the broader regulatory and industry landscape in which real estate professionals, brokerages and real estate portals operate in
Experience with data licensing, marketing, and commercial agreements
Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to persuasively convey the implications of legal issues and risk
Outstanding attention to detail, a proactive and collaborative work ethic, and excellent drafting and negotiation skills
Aptitude for innovative and goal-oriented problem solving
Strong organizational skills and the ability to successfully and independently handle competing and time-sensitive projects
A team-first attitude with a demonstrated ability to collaborate across departments and levels to develop consumer-centric, leading-edge solutions
In-house experience at a real estate brokerage or prop tech company strongly preferred
Benefits
This position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.
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.
Through Cloud HQ, our strategic approach to distributed work, most employees have the flexibility to work from wherever they’re most productive.
Company Overview
Zillow is an online real estate marketplace for finding and sharing information about homes, real estate, and mortgages. It is a sub-organization of Zillow Group. It was founded in 2005, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is
