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About Ancestry:

When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, connects everyone with their past so they can discover, preserve, and share their unique family stories. With our unparalleled collection of more than 65 billion records, over 3.5 million subscribers, and over 27 million people in our growing DNA network, customers can discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Over the past 40 years, we’ve built trusted relationships with millions of people who have chosen us as the platform for discovering, preserving, and sharing the most important information about themselves and their families.
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Ancestry is seeking a Product Design Co-op - International Growth with deep customer obsession and a strong sense of ownership to shape how our product looks, feels, and functions across the globe. This is your opportunity to help millions of people discover who they are by adapting a category-defining product to deliver deep insights and personal discoveries in new markets.

Join us as a product design leader and be at the forefront of Ancestry's global growth. We are looking for a visionary designer to partner directly with the International Product team and spearhead the user experience for our priority growth markets. In this fast-paced, high-impact role, you will analyze customer insights and market data to run product experiments, tailoring our core experience to meet distinct local needs and cultural nuances.

You will...

• Partner closely with the International Product, Marketing, Consumer Insights and Engineering teams to define the UX/UI strategy for priority growth markets, ensuring our global platform resonates on a local, cultural level.

• Lead the design of product experiments, translating customer insights, market data, and user behaviors into compelling, localized product offerings.

• Act as the tireless advocate for international customers, diving into cultural nuances to adapt workflows, visual hierarchies, and interaction models to meet specific regional and cultural expectations.

• Create wireframes, rapid prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for A/B tests, localized MVPs, and market-specific feature rollouts.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, UX Research, and Marketing to align on priorities and ensure seamless, high-quality execution of each pilot and release.

• Design flexible UI frameworks that scale gracefully across different markets and languages, accounting for text expansion, right-to-left (RTL) formatting, and varied local content requirements.

• Leverage qualitative user research and quantitative metrics from the experiments to validate design decisions and continuously evolve the international user experience.

Who you are…

• Currently pursuing a Master of Design (MDes), MFA, or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design (IxD), Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Fine Arts, or a related field. (Candidates from Business or Economics programs who possess relevant UX/product design industry experience are also strongly encouraged to apply.

• Prior internship, industry experience, or academic research demonstrating focus on UX/UI design and/or interactive product experimentation is highly preferred.

• A subject matter expert in designing for international audiences, with an understanding of how cultural nuances, localized behaviors, and language translation impact user interfaces.

• A strategic, empathetic thinker who loves diving into market data and user research to uncover exactly what makes an experience compelling and trustworthy in a specific country.

• Hands-on experience designing for rapid, iterative product experiments, A/B testing, and growth optimization.

• Highly proficient in industry-standard design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma) with a solid understanding of how designs translate into responsive code.

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design rationale, influence roadmap decisions, and align cross-functional teams.

• A strong collaborator who thrives in a fast-paced environment and excels at partnering with technical and business stakeholders.

• A passionate advocate for customers everywhere, with a history of delivering delightful, emotionally resonant product experiences across diverse geographies.

This role is part of Ancestry's Graduate Co-op Program and is designed for active graduate students enrolled in an accredited degree program. Participants must be available to work part-time for a six-month engagement.

Additional Information:

Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For candidates who live in San Francisco, CA, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means.