Lead Product Designer

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.

We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to join our growing design organization through this centralized talent pool. In this role, you will be placed into one of our high-impact core teams (Vision/Systems, Engage, or Preserve & Share), depending on your unique strengths and business needs.

Whether you are defining the foundational design systems that scale across our global product ecosystem, merging genetic genealogy with rich storytelling workflows, or spearheading our long-term strategy for multi-generational sharing, your work will help unify a complex ecosystem into a seamless, trustworthy, and deeply emotional experience.

This is a remote-friendly role reporting to a Design Director or the Head of Design, offering a flexible culture focused on work/life balance and cross-functional collaboration.

• Drive Experience Strategy:
  Partner closely with product management, engineering, data science, and research to shape early thinking, establish long-term visions, and influence product direction through systems thinking.
• Design Across the Ecosystem:
  Translate complex data, scientific insights, and fragmented features into simple, approachable, and emotionally resonant user experiences.
• Evolve Design Foundations:
  Bring structure to ambiguity by defining core interaction patterns, frameworks, and reusable design components that ensure consistency across all product surfaces.
• Connect with Customers:
  Partner directly with user research teams and engage with members firsthand to ground design and systems decisions in real user behaviors and data insights.
• Deliver High-Craft Outputs:
  Create foundational flows, architecture frameworks, interactive prototypes, and polished visual designs that bring ideas to life and inspire cross-functional teams.
• Enable and Mentor:
  Raise the organizational quality bar through thoughtful critique, collaborative workshops, and the mentorship of other product designers.

• Experienced Practitioner:
  Significant experience in product, systems, or platform design within complex, direct-to-consumer digital products.
• Lead Individual Contributor:
  Comfortable setting strategic direction and aligning stakeholders while remaining deeply hands-on in execution and design craft.
• Master Systems Thinker:
  Proven ability to connect customer needs with business goals, map individual features into a broader unified experience, and build scalable frameworks.
• Exceptional Craftsperson: A portfolio demonstrating top-tier interaction design, visual polish,…