Product Manager

Ancestry; Draper (UT); Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision

Job summary

Ancestry is seeking a product manager to build AI-powered consumer features at scale. You will deeply understand back-end data systems, balancing feasibility, accuracy, and cost, and lead discovery using AI-native workflows to prototype and validate ideas before production.

You will collaborate with engineering, design, UX research, marketing, and legal to deliver value quickly and translate complex data into elegant user experiences while running experiments to improve features and models.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years delivering consumer products at global scale.
• Proven track record shipping data-dense or AI-powered features; GenAI/LLMs experience preferred.
• Prototyping with AI tools to build data prototypes during discovery.
• Ability to manage immense back-end complexity bridging architecture and business strategy.
• Ability to transform complex data into simple, magical user moments.
• Bachelor’s degree in STEM or CS; genealogy/storytelling interest is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand how back-end data systems solve user needs while balancing feasibility, accuracy and cost.
• Lead AI-native product discovery, rapidly building live data prototypes to validate hypotheses.
• Lead UI/UX design initiatives with product designer to create intuitive experiences.
• Partner with engineering to build robust platform services powering the ecosystem.
• Collaborate with UX research, marketing, customer support and legal to deliver value quickly.
• Learn from quantitative and qualitative feedback and adapt strategies accordingly.

Skills

AI-native builder

Prototyping tools

Systems thinker

UX craftsperson

Experimentation mindset

Consumer product experience

Education

Bachelor's degree (STEM or CS)

Tools

GenAI

LLMs

Conversational AI frameworks

Job description

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.

What You Will Do...

• Deeply understand how back-end data systems can solve user needs, balancing trade-offs between feasibility, accuracy, and cost.
• Lead continuous product discovery by leveraging AI-native workflows to rapidly build live data prototypes, validate assumptions, and test hypotheses before building for production.
• Lead UI/UX design initiatives in collaboration with your product designer to create elegant, intuitive experiences.
• Partner with engineering, architecture to build robust platform services—the APIs, logic, and front end components that power our ecosystem.
• Work closely with UX research, 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.

Who You Are...

• Experience: 3-5 years of experience delivering successful consumer products at global scale.
• AI-native builder: Proven track record of shipping data-dense or AI-powered consumer features. Direct experience with GenAI, LLMs, or conversational agent frameworks is highly preferred.
• Prototyping & tools: A modern PM who integrates AI into their own daily workflow—comfortable using AI tools to research, query data, or build functional data prototypes during the discovery phase.
• Systems thinker: Ability to handle immense back-end complexity, navigate ambiguity, and bridge the gap between technical architecture and human-centered business strategy.
• UX craftsperson: A high bar for design, with a demonstrated ability to transform highly complex data into simple, magical user moments.
• Experimentation mindset: Strong data literacy with experience running A/B tests to evaluate the impact of feature and algorithmic updates or AI models.
• Education/Interests: Bachelor’s degree required (STEM, or computer science is a major plus). A passion for genealogy and storytelling is a plus.

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: $85,970 - $102,087 with eligibility for bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and vision. Actual salary will depend on location and experience, and ranges are higher in higher cost of labor markets such as the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle. 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.