Zillow
Senior Program Manager, People Data Access & Governance
$124K–$208K
Remote-USA · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years; the posting lists data governance, HR technology, people analytics, or technical program management as alternatives.
About the job
Owns Zillow’s people data access and governance program, establishing policies, controls, and operating processes across HR systems, analytics environments, and AI-powered tools.
What you'll do
- Design governance policies, access frameworks, classification standards, and controls for people data across its lifecycle.
- Partner with HR, Legal, Privacy, Security, Data Engineering, and Product teams to implement access controls and address governance gaps.
- Run governance operations, including intake, access reviews, exception handling, escalation, and leadership reporting.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of experience in data governance, HR technology, people analytics, or technical program management, with ownership of a program or domain.
- Familiarity with cloud-based analytical environments and how access controls are implemented.
- Experience governing sensitive data across classification, permissioning, access reviews, audit trails, and exception handling.
- HR domain fluency and a clear understanding of how AI and LLM-based tools change data governance.
Nice to have
- Experience with data privacy and compliance frameworks such as GDPR or CCPA.
- Familiarity with AI/ML governance or experience working with People Analytics or HRBP teams.
Pay
$130,100.00 - $207,900.00 annually (base salary); $123,700.00 - $197,500.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Workday, Databricks, large language model
AI focus
Define access governance and safety guardrails for AI-powered workforce tools, including natural-language querying, and account for AI/ML issues such as training data, inference inputs, and agentic workflows.
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