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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.
We are committed to our location flexible work approach, allowing you to choose to work in the nearest office, from your home, or a hybrid of both (subject to location restrictions and roles that are required to be in the office- see the full list of eligible US locations HERE). We will continue to hire and promote beyond the boundaries of our office locations, to enable broadened possibilities for employee diversity.
Together, we work every day to foster a work environment that's inclusive as well as diverse, and where our people can be themselves. Every idea and perspective is valued so that our products and services reflect the global and diverse clients we serve. 
Ancestry encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? Join the curious.

You will be responsible for infusing genetic genealogy into our features by partnering with engineering and design to build backend solutions and front-end components that can be used end-to-end across our product. In this role, you will shape the product strategy and roadmap for tools built on our first-in-class DNA science, the world’s largest genomic database, and over 45 billion historical records. You will lead the charge in creating powerful, engaging discovery experiences that help users unlock their family history by bridging the gap between genetic data and ancestral stories. We are seeking a persistent problem-solver who thrives in ambiguity, takes deep ownership of the product lifecycle, and is dedicated to overcoming roadblocks to deliver truly resonant user experiences.

What You Will Do

• Lead continuous product discovery by rapidly prototyping, interviewing customers, and validating assumptions to test hypotheses before building.

• Partner with engineering and architecture to build a genetic genealogy platform—the APIs, matching logic, and front end components that will power our products.

• Write agents to combine historical and genetic data to provide new insights to our users. 

• Develop and articulate a vision for an integrated experience that seamlessly combines DNA insights with historical records, grounded in customer needs and the latest trends in genomic and genealogical data.

• Surface meaningful family connections by combining the richness of our record artifacts with the power of DNA.

• Lead UI/UX design initiatives in collaboration with your product designer to create elegant, intuitive components that help simplify the complexities of research through combined genetic and historical record sets.

• Collaborate with colleagues to transform your strategic vision into a globally scalable product, taking into account local customer needs, cultural nuances, and competitive landscapes.

• Work closely with UX research and design, marketing, customer support, and legal teams to deliver value to customers swiftly and consistently.

• Learn rapidly from both quantitative and qualitative feedback, and adapt strategies with agility based on these insights.

• Partner closely with Senior Engineers to own the platform vision, use-case prioritization, and the internal developer experience.

• Engage with our content professionals and in-house genealogists to gain a thorough understanding of Ancestry’s content, which includes over 60 billion artifacts and user-created trees. 

Who you are 

• At least 4 years of experience delivering successful consumer products.

• A proven track record in developing recommendation systems at scale.

• Deep product discovery skills, with a demonstrated ability to interview users, analyze qualitative and quantitative data, and collaborate tightly with UX design and engineering.

• Experience building and using  agentic workflows for the product discovery process.

• A systems-thinking approach, showing you can handle immense complexity, navigate ambiguity, and bridge the gap between technical architecture and business strategy.

• Understanding of agentic frameworks and experience writing agents.

• Strong, proven collaboration skills with Data Science, backend engineering, and UX design teams to build data-driven products that serve millions of global users.

• Experience partnering with UX to build highly functional internal tools or reference components.

• Exceptional skills in written communication, presentation, meeting management, and team-building.

• A resilient work ethic driven by data, with the ability to independently gather the necessary information to make informed decisions.

• Experience with experimentation to evaluate the impact of feature and algorithmic updates, combined with strong user experience instincts.

• Bachelor’s degree is required; master’s degree and a background in STEM, especially genomics, are a plus. 

Why Ancestry?

Join a dedicated team working to connect millions of people with their past and enrich their futures. At Ancestry, you will play a role in pioneering legal solutions that shape the consumer genomics industry. Your contributions will help foster and protect our workforce that is dedicated to helping our customers tell their own stories, while supporting a brand recognized and trusted around the world. We offer a collaborative workplace, competitive compensation, and the opportunity to make a meaningful difference.
 

Compensation

Ancestry values pay transparency and equity. As a signatory of the ParityPledge in Support of Women and the ParityPledge in Support of People of Color, we are pleased to share the base salary range for this position: $110,000 - 123,000 with eligibility for bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and vision. Actual salary will depend on location and experience. We will provide detailed compensation data for a specific location during the recruiting process.

*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20) and sb1162(1-1-23).

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.