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, 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.

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.

Ancestry is looking for a Staff Product Manager to drive cross-platform strategy and execution for our “Digitize and Preserve” initiative. Ancestry is the world’s leading platform for researching your family history, leveraging 45B+ historical records to uncover the specifics of your ancestors and their lives, dating back hundreds of years. We are looking to expand this core value proposition - by enabling our users to digitize their own family’s historical photos, documents, heirlooms, and stories - alongside what they discover on the platform - such that these artifacts are forever preserved in our collections alongside the historical records they relate to. 

This is a meaningful mission: to empower families to preserve, in local history, the memories of their loved ones and ancestors, through immortalizing the last remaining photos, documents, and stories that color their lives. To date, over 1.5 billion pieces of “user contributed content” have been preserved on Ancestry, and we feel this is just the beginning. In this role you’ll explore user problems, apply cutting edge AI-backed technologies, and build delightful experiences - aiming to enable people to digitize (DIY or white glove), to enhance (fixing old photos, transcribing documents, etc), and to preserve for the next generation. 

You will join a scrappy, passionate team of PMs, designers, engineers, data scientists, and user researchers as you champion the needs of our users, forwarding our user-generated-content experiences. This position offers a significant opportunity to impact key performance indicators through fueling the content flywheel of our business - as these user-contributions become potential “family history discoveries” for other users in the ecosystem. 

You will succeed in this role by identifying product opportunities, creating a vision & roadmap, validating that vision through rapid prototyping, measuring effectiveness, and partnering across the organization to bring your vision to market. 

What you will do...

• Develop and execute the cross-functional roadmap aimed at the “Digitize and Preserve" opportunity, working closely with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Design, Marketing, User Research, Data, and Customer Support.

• Create a convincing product vision, driving alignment within your team, with leadership, and with stakeholders

• Define and prioritize product features and enhancements based on customer insights, market research, and business objectives, balancing prioritization needs across web, mobile, and backend teams. 

• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to create wireframes, user flows, and prototypes that meet user needs and business requirements.

• Work with engineering teams to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of features and enhancements.

• Leverage foundational user research, conduct user testing, and gather feedback to continuously improve the experience and champion the voice of the customer.

• Analyze and report on key performance metrics related to the Digitize and Preserve workflows 

• Stay current with industry trends and best practices to ensure Ancestry's products remain competitive and innovative.

Who you are...

• Bachelor's degree in a related field. 

• Significant experience in Product Management, in a consumer-facing roles. 

• Strong understanding of mobile app development processes, including Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Proven track record of shipping successful products/features and driving business impact.

• Experience with A/B testing, user research, and data analysis.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, working across multiple groups within a larger organization. 

• Passion for history, genomics, and/or family history is a plus.

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: $132,660 - $165,870 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.

*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 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.