Senior Product Manager

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.
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Ancestry seeks an exceptionally passionate and highly motivated Sr. Technical Product Manager to join our DNA Operations product team. This team provides software solutions for the backbone one the DNA product, including the Supply Chain, Operations, and Science teams.  The most recent product extension under the Ancestry DNA business, the team has recently released a 0-1 product into market and is in the early stages of growth and scalability.  As a Product Manager within this organization, you may have a variety of activities such as conducting market and competitive research as well as defining features and capabilities for the DNA product.  You may also work to support our Science organization with data management, access, as well as scientific tools and platform elements to advance the scientific discovery and capability of the Ancestry Science team.  You will work closely with our UX, content, science and  Engineering teams to bring innovative solutions to our customers. This fast paced environment will allow for the wearing of many hats and having significant ownership of driving cross functional execution.

What you will do:

• Tackle complex and challenging problems that play a central role in how customers access, understand and act upon the results of their DNA results

• Examine the most impactful growth opportunities across the market, partnership and product spectrum and create solutions to achieve key metrics.

• Partner with User Experience Designer(s), Marketing, Science, Customer Support, and Legal teams to understand key needs and improve the user experience

• Work with the Product Management team to prioritize your work with the Engineering teams and guide the execution through product delivery

• Research and establish key metrics that will measure success of the products/features

Who You Are: 

• 5+ years of Product Management experience

• Ability to de-risk: can be creative and come up with ways to validate hypotheses quickly

• Background in human genetics, animal genetics, and/or genomic sciences

• Proven ability to take feedback and learn fast

• Understand how to create simple and intuitive user experiences

• Excellent working relationship with engineering and UX

• Ability to talk with anyone from engineers to legal, business development, science, program management, and marketing partners as well as customers, each in their own language

• Bachelor’s degree or equivelent

• Product management professional who enjoys the challenge of innovating and building great customer experiences

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.  

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