Senior Product Manager, Genetic Genealogy

Role Overview

• Lead continuous product discovery by rapidly prototyping, interviewing customers, and validating assumptions to test hypotheses before building.
• Partner with engineering and architecture to build a genetic genealogy platform—the APIs, matching logic, and front end components that will power our products.
• Write agents to combine historical and genetic data to provide new insights to our users.
• Develop and articulate a vision for an integrated experience that seamlessly combines DNA insights with historical records, grounded in customer needs and the latest trends in genomic and genealogical data.
• Surface meaningful family connections by combining the richness of our record artifacts with the power of DNA.
• Lead UI/UX design initiatives in collaboration with your product designer to create elegant, intuitive components that help simplify the complexities of research through combined genetic and historical record sets.
• Collaborate with colleagues to transform your strategic vision into a globally scalable product, taking into account local customer needs, cultural nuances, and competitive landscapes.
• Work closely with UX research and design, 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.
• Partner closely with Senior Engineers to own the platform vision, use-case prioritization, and the internal developer experience.
• Engage with our content professionals and in-house genealogists to gain a thorough understanding of Ancestry’s content, which includes over 60 billion artifacts and user-created trees.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience delivering successful consumer products.
• A proven track record in developing recommendation systems at scale.
• Deep product discovery skills, with a demonstrated ability to interview users, analyze qualitative and quantitative data, and collaborate tightly with UX design and engineering.
• Experience building and using agentic workflows for the product discovery process.
• A systems-thinking approach, showing you can handle immense complexity, navigate ambiguity, and bridge the gap between technical architecture and business strategy.
• Understanding of agentic frameworks and experience writing agents.
• Strong, proven collaboration skills with Data Science, backend engineering, and UX design teams to build data-driven products that serve millions of global users.
• Experience partnering with UX to build highly functional internal tools or reference components.
• Exceptional skills in written communication, presentation, meeting management, and team-building.
• A resilient work ethic driven by data, with the ability to independently gather the necessary information to make informed decisions.
• Experience with experimentation to evaluate the impact of feature and algorithmic updates, combined with strong user experience instincts.
• Bachelor’s degree is required; master’s degree and a background in STEM, especially genomics, are a plus.

Benefits

• health, dental, and vision