Ancestry

Ancestry

Lead Product Designer

Draper, UT · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$130k-$150kDetected 6 days ago
Design SystemsBioinformaticsResearchAdaptability

About the role

  • 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.
  • We will continue to hire and promote beyond the boundaries of our office locations, to enable broadened possibilities for employee diversity.

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve core interaction patterns, components, and design principles that ensure consistency across Ancestry's product ecosystem.
  • Identify fragmentation and opportunity areas across teams, and translate them into scalable design systems and shared solutions.
  • Embed within product teams to shape early thinking, unblock design challenges, and elevate execution quality.
  • Create foundational flows, frameworks, and prototypes that clarify complex cross-product experiences.
  • Partner closely with design, engineering, and content teams to ensure systems are practical, adopted, and maintained.
  • Drive alignment across teams on how core experiences should look, feel, and behave.
  • Significant experience in product, systems, or platform design within complex consumer products.
  • Strong systems thinker with deep expertise in interaction design, design patterns, and scalable frameworks.
  • Exceptional interaction and visual design craft, with a portfolio demonstrating strong systems thinking and executional quality.
  • Comfortable operating as a lead individual contributor - setting direction while remaining deeply hands-on in the work.

Requirements

  • Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20) and sb1162(1-1-23).

Nice to have

  • Experience with consumer subscription products, social experiences, storytelling products, creator tools, or products centered around memories, identity, and connection.
  • Join a dedicated team working to connect millions of people with their past and enrich their futures.
  • At Ancestry, you will play a role in pioneering legal solutions that shape the consumer genomics industry.

Compensation

  • Ancestry values pay transparency and equity.
  • As a signatory of the ParityPledge in Support of Women and the ParityPledge in Support of People of Color, we are pleased to share the base salary range for this position: $130,000 - $150,000 with eligibility for bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and vision.
  • Actual salary will depend on location and experience.
  • We will provide detailed compensation data for a specific location during the recruiting process.

Benefits

  • We're looking for a Lead Product Designer to join our Vision team - a small, highly flexible group that partners across the organization to shape the future of our product experience.

Company info

  • Partner closely with research and customer insights teams, including direct conversations with customers, to ground system decisions in real user needs and ensure patterns reflect real-world behavior.
  • Rather than owning any single area, you'll help ensure that every experience feels like part of a connected whole.
  • We offer a collaborative workplace, competitive compensation, and the opportunity to make a meaningful difference.

Visa & Work Authorization

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