Director, Employee Communications

About the team

Zillow’s Communications team is responsible for growing Zillow’s audience and building awareness of its innovative products and services. The team strengthens Zillow’s position as a thought leader in housing, technology, and real estate through earned and owned media channels.

About the role

We are hiring a Director of Employee Communications to help lead our employee communications team. A significant responsibility of this position will be reimagining and driving an employee communications strategy to better connect with the company’s 8,000+ employees with the goal of driving alignment and engagement for our distributed workforce.

The right candidate should be a driven, passionate, strategic, and out-front leader looking to work in a fast-paced, growing company.

The Director of Employee Communications will report to the Sr. Director, Real Estate & Employee Communications and will be an active player on the communications leadership team as well as a critical business partner to various leaders across a variety of organizations including HR, Tech and Sales.

The Director, Employee Communications must have an excellent understanding of Zillow’s strategy, an ability to communicate it clearly and effectively, knowledge of change management tools and practices, and the ability to encourage the confidence of the leadership team through their counsel.

Job Responsibilities:

• Strategic thought partner to company leadership including executives on company priorities and initiatives, providing communications counsel and strategy for broad internal Zillow Group employee base.
• Develop and scale an employee communications strategy crafted to serve a distributed, in alignment with the company’s CloudHQ strategy
• Developing and implementing communications strategies that creatively drive business objectives, culture and employee engagement
• Growing employee understanding of major strategic business initiatives
• Elevate visibility of company executives internally through executive communications strategy in close partnership with the Corporate Communications team
• Serving as a trusted liaison for multiple, sophisticated lines of business and providing counsel to executive leaders
• Building campaigns and strategic plans to drive engagement and action from employees
• Leading a team with a high volume of work and high impact to the company

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.

In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the …