Staff Product Manager – International

Staff Product Manager – International

• Remote , United States
• Product Management
• Full time

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.

Ancestry is looking for a Product Manager to lead our international product strategy, roadmap and execution as Ancestry expands to dozens of new markets across the globe. You will report to the Director of Technical Product Manager and join a team of designers, engineers, data scientists, and localization experts to push the boundaries for our international experiences. You will have the creativity to look at problems in new ways and to try new things, a hypothesis-driven mentality, a balance of creativity and organizational influence.

What you will do:

• Partner with product, marketing and business development teams to create international strategy and align with partners.
• You will tackle challenging, complex problems that play a central role in how customers search and discover content to create an industry-leading research experience.
• In partnership with your colleagues, you’ll transform your strategy into a product that scales globally. You will consider local customer needs, cultural nuance, and a variety of environments to help our business grow and retain our loyal customer base while also addressing the needs of our new customers.
• Define product success criteria, develop roadmap and implement towards increased growth.
• Collaboratively partner with research user experience, marketing, customer support, and legal teams to deliver customer value on a rapid and regular schedule; adapt from quantitative and qualitative feedback; iterate approach with urgency based on insights.
• Delve into product performance and customer trends with data science, product analytics and customer research to gain insight into your customers and to promote next-generation search experiences.

Who you are:

• 7+ years of experience delivering consumer products. Experience developing and localizing global products.
• You have experience building data-driven products at scale (serving millions of customers) through partnerships with engineering.
• Passionate, creative customer thinker using a combination of data and customer insights, while achieving results. You are known for delivering elegant solutions for true user problems.
• Work well with individuals at all levels and across departments.
• Experience with presentation techniques, meeting management, and team building skills.
• A high bar across the board – for your own contributions, for the people you work with, and for the products you work on. You are data-driven to the point of pulling the data you need to inform your decisions. Experience working with experimentation to assess the effectiveness of feature and algorithmic updates coupled with great design instincts.
• Explain a vision and empower others across leadership and partners.
• Last but not least, you excel in a collaborative environment and define personal success by the efficacy of your team, the regard of your colleagues, and the delight of our customers.
• Bachelor’s degree; STEM / computer science background.

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.