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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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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)