About Ancestry:
When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. We believe that by discovering the struggles and triumphs of our past, we can foster deeper bonds and more meaningful connections among families and communities. With more than 30+ billion digitized global historical records, 125+ million family trees, and 22+ million people in our growing AncestryDNA database, Ancestry helps customers discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives.

We are committed to our location flexible work approach, allowing you to work from where you want — in an office or from home or a hybrid of both (subject to location restrictions and roles that are required to be in the office). 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.

About the role:

Ancestry is looking for a Senior Product Manager to drive mobile strategy and execution for our DNA product offering. Ancestry is the largest consumer DNA network in the world, enabling over 23M people to connect with their heritage and their living relatives, as they look to better understand themselves and where they come from.

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 mobile-first DNA experiences. This position offers a significant opportunity to impact key performance indicators through activating our largest segment of inbound users, and guiding them further into the Ancestry 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 mobile roadmap for the DNA product, working closely with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Design, Marketing, User Research, Data, and Customer Support.

• Create a 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 both the Mobile and DNA organizations.

• 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 DNA mobile product.

• Stay current with industry trends and best practices to ensure Ancestry's mobile DNA product remains competitive and innovative.

• Reports to Director of Product - Mobile

Who you are...

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Product Design, or related field.

• 4+ years of experience in product management, preferably in a consumer-facing, data-driven company. Mobile product experience is a plus.

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

• Proven track record of shipping successful mobile 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.

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: $80,000 - $226,000 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.

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.