Sr. Director, Information Security

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.

Ancestry protects the highly sensitive family histories, DNA data, and personal records of millions of global customers. We are seeking a Sr. Director, Deputy CISO to serve as a key executive partner to our CISO and drive the enterprise-wide execution of our cyber risk strategy.

In this role, you will lead our security organization, align security operations with core business objectives, and act as a trusted risk advisor to senior leadership. You will champion a culture of default automation, metrics-driven governance, and resilience, ensuring Ancestry remains at the forefront of consumer trust and consumer-scale defense.

As a core member of the Info Sec leadership team, you will:

• Lead Enterprise Security Operations & Resilience: Oversee continuous security operations, incident response readiness, and threat intelligence. Serve as the primary Incident Commander during high-stakes events, orchestrating response across Legal, PR, Engineering, and Executive leadership.
• Enable Business & Product Innovation: Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Legal, Privacy, and IT to embed enterprise risk frameworks and security-by-design principles into consumer applications, AI/ML pipelines, and data architectures.
• Build & Scale High-Performing Teams: Lead, coach, and scale a multi-tiered organization of security directors, managers, and engineers, fostering accountability, clear succession paths, and operational excellence.
• Modernize Defense Capabilities: Drive continuous modernization across our security stack—leveraging AI/ML, automation, and cloud-native architectures to eliminate friction, reduce operational toil, and stay ahead of evolving threat vectors.

• CISO Readiness: Serve as the primary delegate for the CISO, carrying enterprise-level accountability and gaining direct exposure to executive committees, board dynamics, and ownership groups.
• Comprehensive Enterprise Scope: Exercise end-to-end operational authority across Security Engineering, Incident Response, Cloud Security, Identity & Access Management (IAM), and Risk Management.
• High-Visibility Strategic…