Zillow is continuing its leadership shuffle, with the Seattle-based residential portal announcing a new senior vice president of agent sales on Friday. Former PayPal executive Soumya Tulloss will lead Zillow’s agency sales, which includes flagship products Zillow Showcase and Zillow Premier Agent.
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Zillow is continuing its leadership shuffle, with the Seattle-based residential portal announcing a new senior vice president of agent sales on Friday. Former PayPal executive Soumya Tulloss will lead Zillow’s agency sales, which includes flagship products Zillow Showcase and Zillow Premier Agent.
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“Zillow is investing in software and digital solutions to power the real estate industry, including a suite of innovative products for agents that will continue to be part of the Zillow business,” Jun Choo, senior vice president of real estate software at Zillow, said in a report. “Organizing our sales team under Soumya’s leadership allows us to innovate quickly and make strategic investments in our agent community. “
“Soumya’s commitment to exceptional customer experiences and her impressive ability to empower the sales organization while driving revenue make her a valuable addition to the Zillow team,” he added.
Tullos has 15 years of experience in sales and marketing, starting with an internship at Google, where she drove 35% of U.S. traffic to the search engine’s Google Maps Favorite Places campaign in 2009. Jobs at Banking Securities Companies, PayPal, GoodData, Twilio and Deliverr.
At Twilio, she grew the company’s revenue more than 3,000%, jumping from $89 million in 2014 to $2.8 billion in 2021. reached $2.1 billion.
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Tulloss said in a prepared statement that she is excited to bring the same growth to Zillow, and she will be responsible for driving growth and deeper integration between agent sales solutions and other products within the company.
“I’m excited to support Zillow’s important mission of getting more and more people home,” she said. “My goal is to make the more than one million agents who drive the residential real estate industry achieve great success by providing exceptional service, allowing them to serve more customers more effectively.”
“As a first-generation American, it was my family’s dream to buy and own a home,” she added. “The collaboration and support we received from our agents helped my family turn this dream into a reality. I’m excited to support our agency clients as we work together to make more people’s dreams a reality.”
Tulloss’ appointment comes at a critical time for Zillow, as the company aims to stay above the growing drama of the portal wars and grow its profile for agents as they deal with the repeal of the National Association of Realtors’ rules of engagement. Value proposition.
During the company’s second-quarter earnings call, Zillow co-founder and co-executive chairman Rich Barton and CEO Jeremy Wacksman shared their vision for the next chapter of the portal, which is to strengthen the “real estate market” by driving deeper integration. Digital Future” The collaboration between Real-Time Touring, Zillow Showcase and Zillow Premier Agent creates a frictionless transaction experience for agents and consumers.
“We believe that we and our partners are huge beneficiaries of these changes that are coming to the industry. We have the most customers. We work with the best partners,” Waxman said. “We offer the most technology and we want our premium agents to deliver and get paid because they provide a great service.”
In his final Inman Connect Las Vegas keynote as Zillow CEO, Barton said Zillow will continue to accelerate the delivery of a platform that makes buying and selling a home as easy as buying a latte — with agents It’s an increasingly attractive proposition for businesses and consumers to get involved in new platforms.
“This is no different than Brad Inman’s latte deal [keynote] Starting in 2013. he said. “His vision was to sort out the clutter and say moving should be as easy as buying a latte. Well, we’re almost there. We’re almost there. It’s going to take a while, but we’re getting there.
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