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Lead Product Designer, Share

Ancestry đŸ‡ș🇾 Draper, Utah, United States of America

$130,000 - $150,000 Full-time Senior

Lead end-to-end design for sharing experiences, setting the long-term vision and shaping product strategy to help customers connect with family and friends through their discoveries. Use customer insights and data to create cohesive, polished experiences, advocate for customers, and raise design quality through collaboration, critique, and mentorship.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end design for sharing experiences, setting the long-term vision and shaping product strategy to help customers connect with family and friends through their discoveries. Use customer insights and data to create cohesive, polished experiences, advocate for customers, and raise design quality through collaboration, critique, and mentorship.

Requirements

  • Requires 7+ years of product, UX/UI, or related design experience, including a track record designing engaging consumer products and strong interaction and visual design craft. Candidates should be hands-on design leaders with systems thinking, communication, collaboration, and experimentation skills; experience with subscription, social, storytelling, creator, memory, identity, or connection-focused products is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance

Key Skills

Product design UX/UI design Interaction design Visual design Design systems User research Customer insights Data‑driven design Mentorship Collaboration Communication Figma Adobe Creative Suite Prototyping Wireframing Storytelling Subscription product experience Social product experience Identity and memory product knowledge Agile methodology Design critique System thinking Leadership Cross‑functional teamwork Accessibility awareness Experimentation

About Ancestry

We are the curious. Ancestry¼, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics, connecting 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 from 88 countries, over 3 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. Ancestry has over 1,300 employees in locations across the globe. Our headquarters is in Draper, Utah and our global offices are located in Dublin, Ireland; Paris, France; London, England; Sydney, Australia; and Grafing, Germany. We are committed to our location flexible work approach, allowing you to work fr

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