Straker Carryer

About Straker Carryer

Former Software Development Engineer (SDE) and long-time Technical Program/Product Manager (TPM/PM-T). As the founder of the TPM function at Zillow, and later PM-T, I now deliver technical and organizational strategy at the company level. Check out my blog (https://strakercarryer.com) for details about my experience and opinions that tend to be of a more.contrarian nature 🤨.I happily engage with the existing and aspiring TPM/PM community. Please don\'t hesitate to reach out; I mentor when I can 🧑‍🤝‍🧑.I am open to consulting or fractional roles, but these must not have fulltime requirements. You can setup time to chat with me at https://calendly.com/strakercarryer, but please do not use this to ask for a referral; such requests will be immediately declined.For fulltime roles, I am open to new roles across a spectrum of titles, such as Product, Program, Architect, Technical Advisor, Chief of Staff, or Director/VP/CTO (title varies by company). While I don\'t care about level adjectives or title formality, please keep my experience and level in mind. I am not interested in non-technical or project management roles. For TPM/PM-T roles, I\'m most interested if I will be founding the role. In summary, the smaller your company, the better 🤏!I am a triple citizen (, and ), making employment in different countries easy.I also believe in transparency, and I am a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivor with a passion for volunteering within the TBI community. Want to hear a crazy story? Ask me about my two skulls.

Experience

1. Senior Principal Product Manager, Technical (Consumer Information Architecture)

   Zillow

   Oct 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   With a Product reorg across the entire company, I was put into a reprise role from my Enterprise Architecture days to own the execution of the Information Architecture (IA) changes across the Zillow consumer apps (iOS and Android) and Web to deliver on the promise from 2022 of \"the Housing Super App.\" Note that I had three concurrent full-time jobs with the formation of this new team and role.

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

  2008 — 2011

• The George Washington University

  Bachelor's degree, Undecided, Honor's Program

Skills

• Linux
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Software Development
• Nosql
• C
• Product Management
• Java
• Ruby
• Project Management
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Ruby on Rails
• Postgresql
• Perl
• Html
• Availability
• Mysql
• Distributed Systems
• Program Management