About the team Lifecycle Marketing Operations powers Zillow’s owned channels, including email, SMS, push, and in-app messaging, through scalable systems and hands-on campaign execution. We build, launch, and optimize campaigns within our MarTech platforms, partnering closely with Marketing Strategy, Data Science, Product, and Engineering to translate business objectives into data-driven solutions. Our team ensures efficient, high-quality delivery while maintaining strong standards for audience health, reporting, and operational rigor. As stewards of our owned channels, we safeguard inbox placement and sender reputation, continuously improve execution frameworks, and introduce new capabilities that enable marketing to scale with consistency and measurable impact. We design and activate lifecycle journeys and campaigns within our MarTech platforms, partnering closely with Marketing Strategy, Data Science, Product, and Engineering to translate business objectives into data-driven solutions. Our team ensures efficient, high-quality delivery while maintaining strong standards for audience health, reporting, and operational rigor. As stewards of our owned channels, we safeguard inbox placement and sender reputation, continuously improve execution frameworks, and introduce new capabilities that enable marketing to scale with consistency and measurable impact. Zillow Group is a strategic, mission-driven organization focused on delivering exceptional experiences and measurable outcomes. Our work spans cross-functional partnership, scalable programs and operational excellence in support of Zillow’s mission. We bring deep experience working across diverse teams in a dynamic, high-growth environment, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution to drive meaningful business impact. We are seeking an experienced professional to support our workforce expansion in India. About the role We are seeking a Lifecycle Marketing Operations Specialist to drive operational excellence across Zillow’s owned channels. This role serves as a subject matter expert in campaign execution, from audience segmentation and journey orchestration to templates, QA, and launch. You will own high-impact, cross-channel initiatives and help evolve the standards and systems that govern how campaigns are built, targeted, and launched. Own end-to-end execution of complex, cross-channel campaigns across email, SMS, push, and in-app messaging. Manage multiple concurrent builds in a high-volume environment, delivering accurate, on-time launches while proactively identifying and escalating execution quality and launch risks. Build and optimize audience segments and activation workflows, translating business requirements into audience logic and upholding standards for eligibility, suppression, segmentation accuracy, and audience health. Build complex, multi-step user journeys, configuring entry and exit criteria, branching and delay logic, and schedule cadence to deliver timely, relevant messaging across the customer lifecycle. Build and evolve modular email templates and QA standards, executing QA across clients and devices using HTML/CSS and dynamic content logic such as Liquid or similar templating languages. Define and evolve campaign build standards, QA frameworks, and launch protocols to improve quality and predictability. Configure and optimize AI decisioning journeys, defining goals, guardrails, and content options that enable models to personalize messaging, timing, and channel. Leverage AI tools to improve operational efficiency, accelerating campaign builds, QA, documentation, and other repeatable workflows. Set up and execute A/B, multivariate, and holdout tests in partnership with Strategy, ensuring accurate test configuration, audience splits, and measurement setup. Monitor campaign and journey health to identify operational issues early, using data and reporting to troubleshoot, surface trends, and partner with Strategy on opportunities to improve engagement, deliverability, and efficiency. Serve as a platform subject matter expert, partnering with Marketing Technology and Engineering to implement new capabilities, influence platform enhancements, and close process gaps that affect scalability, automation, and data integrity. This role has been categorized as an Office position. “Office” employees regularly work at the Zillow India office for approximately 80 to 100 percent of their time each month. Employees must live within a reasonable commuting distance of the office. Zillow has not defined a reasonable distance, and expects employees will use judgment in determining this for themselves and understand the implications re: time commitment and cost of daily commute. Who you are Experienced lifecycle marketing operator with broad hands-on experience across campaign execution, audiences, templates, and marketing technology, with demonstrated depth in one or more areas. Strong translator of business strategy into scalable technical execution. Comfortable working across systems, with a strong understanding of how data flows between platforms to power audiences and personalization. Analytical, curious thinker who uses data, experimentation, and emerging AI tools to drive step-change improvements. Trusted cross-functional partner who can influence stakeholders at multiple levels. Highly organized and able to independently own complex work from requirements through launch, navigating ambiguity and knowing when to escalate risks or dependencies. Qualifications 5+ years of experience in lifecycle marketing, channel marketing, or marketing operations with demonstrated ownership of complex, cross-channel campaign execution. Hands-on experience with enterprise marketing automation or customer engagement platforms (e.g., Braze, HubSpot, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Adobe Journey Optimizer, Iterable), with experience working with customer data platforms preferred. Email marketing experience required; SMS, push, or in-app experience preferred. HTML/CSS required; SQL a plus. Demonstrated use of AI tools to improve operational efficiency is preferred; experience with AI decisioning, predictive personalization, or other automated optimization capabilities is a plus. Proven ability to improve processes, implement new capabilities, and partner effectively across cross-functional teams. Experience working in agile environments with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and Google Workspace preferred. 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 people 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 reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality. Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the U.S. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2026, and included on TIME’s America’s Best Companies 2026 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 committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and to providing equal employment opportunities. We comply with applicable laws that prohibit discrimination in employment and recruitment. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter directly. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law. Create job alert email notifications. Log into your existing Workday profile, or create a profile to get started. It’s the easiest way to stay in the loop–no application needed. At Zillow, flexibility isn’t a perk - it’s how we work. Cloud HQ is our distributed work model, built on trust, clear systems, and the belief that you can do great work from wherever you are. 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