Jobs
Director, Industry Relations - Mortgages
- Department:
- Business
- Office:
- Seattle
- Location:
- Seattle, WA
Zillow.com is an online real estate community where homeowners, buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals can find and share vital information about homes, for free. Launched in early 2006 with Zestimate values and data on millions of U.S. homes, Zillow has since “opened up” the site to community input, data and dialogue, including Home Q&A. Zillow’s goal is to help people become smarter about real estate – what homes are worth, what’s for sale, and what local experts have to say about real estate and individual homes. We have information on over 70 million U.S. homes, and growing.
Zillow.com is seeking an exceptionally talented leader to drive our real estate industry development efforts, specifically within the mortgage lender and broker community. Over the past two years, Zillow.com has created one of the most trafficked real estate sites on the Internet and one of the best marketing platforms for industry professionals. As such, the Director, Industry Relations - Mortgages will serve as a face of Zillow as he/she identifies and cultivates strategic partnerships in the mortgage industry. The position is Seattle based, but will involve a fair amount of travel. If you have the passion for and expertise in building large scale partnerships and industry knowledge, we would be very interested in talking to you. The Director, Industry Relations – Mortgages will report to the president of Zillow.
Responsibilities:
• Identify, develop and manage key account relationships
• Develop and drive new business initiatives to support our partners
• Achieve superior results across a clearly defined set of metrics
• Plan and execute showcase events evangelizing Zillow in the market
Qualifications:
• 10+ years of successful sales, business development, or market management experience required; strong preference for industry knowledge, preferably with lenders and mortgage brokers
• Proven experience creating and building business partnerships
• Exceptional analytical and communication skills
•Experience representing companies within industry organizations is required
•Experience or strong understanding of the Internet advertising industry preferred
• Undergraduate degree required (MBA a plus)
• Knowledge/passion for the residential real estate business a plus, as is previous experience with saleforce.com and Microsoft office applications.