Zillow
Senior Manager, Incident Management
$126K–$212K
Remote-USA · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 10, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in a related field, including 2+ years of people management experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
About the job
Leads Zillow’s incident and problem management strategy, team, and AI-enabled operational workflows to resolve incidents, prevent recurrence, and improve reliability.
What you'll do
- Own incident response and problem management programs, including governance, processes, tooling, and executive escalation for critical incidents.
- Lead root cause analysis and corrective-action follow-through; track reliability metrics and drive continuous improvement.
- Hire and develop incident managers and adopt AI workflows to improve incident triage, reporting, and operational efficiency.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of experience in incident management, SRE, technical operations, or a related field, including 2+ years of people management experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
- Proven track record building or scaling an incident management and/or problem management program.
- Strong understanding of structured incident management practices and formal problem management methodologies.
- Experience leveraging AI tools or workflows to improve operational speed and output quality.
Nice to have
- Experience with incident management/on-call tooling (e.g., Rootly, JIRA, ServiceNow) and AI-driven operations tooling.
- Exposure to distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale consumer applications.
Pay
$132,400.00 - $211,600.00 USD annually (base salary); $125,800.00 - $201,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Rootly, JIRA, ServiceNow
AI focus
Champion and scale AI-powered workflows for incident detection, triage, summarization, and root cause analysis; evaluate outputs for accuracy and actionability, automate repetitive tasks, and partner with Engineering and Data teams to improve incident response metrics.
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