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When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, empowers journeys of personal discovery to enrich lives. With our unparalleled collection of more than 40 billion records, over 3 million subscribers and over 23 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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We are seeking a Project Manager, Online Marketing to fill a key position within our commercialization marketing team. Our team is responsible for ensuring a smooth and timely launch schedule for various campaigns and the ongoing continuous improvement in processes to drive efficiency and speed-to-market. The ideal candidate will bring strong communication, organizational, and technical skills to the role, as well as a passion for delivering on-time and accurate campaigns. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, able to work independently and collaborate across various team members within CRM/email, onsite/e-commerce, martech, web analytics, and other cross-functional teams to ensure effective delivery of marketing programs, with a focus on online marketing platforms.

What you will do…

• Manage the process and project management tool specifically for an online marketing team, responsible for various offers, emails or landing page initiatives in order to achieve deadlines/launch dates.

• Run [daily/weekly] scrum meetings in order to identify blockers or risks; take follow-up action items related to unblocking dependencies or communicating risks and send clear notes to all relevant cross-functional teams

• Manage the intake and flow of marketing initiatives from backlog to completion/closed state. 

• Create work tickets and tracking codes as needed for marketing projects

• Schedule and facilitate meetings with stakeholders to initiate new projects, manage priorities of projects, set timeline expectations, manage asset handoff and general tracking of each marketing request

• Be accountable for driving longer-term  projects to on-time completion, or communicating changes to project timelines/scope/budget as appropriate

• Develop and maintain documentation related to any of the program initiatives.

• Fill in for certain online coordination tasks, as needed; Recommend improvements based on current process.

Who you are…

• 3+ years of project management experience, ideally in a product-based, or Direct-to-Consumer/e-commerce business

• Proficient working with project management tools like Jira/Workfront, and other tracking tools like Google Docs, Tableau, Excel, etc.

• Demonstrated experience and success managing multiple projects at once

• Ability to quickly dive into project requests and retract details to help answer questions

• Strong written, presentation, and oral communication skills to utilize in informal follow-up emails to project updates to more senior marketing leads

•  Ideal experience in marketing suites such as Adobe, Salesforce Marketing, Hubspot

• Team player comfortable with interacting with different functional areas across an organization

• Ability to multi-task and work efficiently in a dynamic, demanding environment

• Ability to adapt to a fluid and rapidly changing environment

Helping people discover their story is at the heart of ours.  Ancestry is the largest provider of family history and personal DNA testing, harnessing a powerful combination of information, science and technology to help people discover their family history and stories that were never possible before. Ancestry’s suite of products includes: AncestryDNA, AncestryProGenealogists, Fold3, Newspapers.com, Find a Grave, Archives.com, and Rootsweb. We offer excellent benefits and a competitive compensation package. For additional information, regarding our benefits and career information, please visit our website at http://ancestry.com/careers

As a signatory of the ParityPledge in Support of Women and the ParityPledge in Support of People of Color, Ancestry values pay transparency and pay equity.  We are pleased to share the base salary range for this position: $70,560 - $80,640 with eligibility for bonus, equity and comprehensive benefits including health, dental and vision. The actual salary will vary by geographic region and job experience.  We will share detailed compensation data for a specific location during the recruiting process.  Read more about our benefits HERE.

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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 San Francisco office candidates, 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.