Staff Product Analyst

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.

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.

The Product Analytics team helps shape product strategy through rigorous analysis, deep customer understanding, and clear measurement. We define the metrics that matter, identify friction across the user journey, and develop analytical approaches that support product growth and innovation.

As a Staff-level Individual Contributor, you will be a technical leader and partner across the organization. You will help set the analytical vision, influence product direction, and raise the bar for the analytics community. You will also play a key role in identifying, creating, and scaling AI-enabled workflows that improve analytical efficiency while maintaining high standards for accuracy, rigor, and business impact.

• Lead Product Measurement Strategy - Own KPI frameworks, metric definitions, and metric trees that help Product teams measure long-term user value, retention, engagement loops, and overall business health.

• Generate Proactive Insights - Beyond immediate roadmap questions to explore complex datasets, identify non-obvious user behaviors, and quantify their impact on customers and the business.

• Shape Product Strategy with Data - Synthesize multiple data sources into clear, evidence-based points of view on major product opportunities, risks, and trade-offs. Present recommendations directly to senior Product leaders and influence roadmap decisions.

• Design Scalable Data Foundations - Partner with Data Engineering and Product teams to improve upstream data models, event tracking, and analytical infrastructure so the organization can support accurate, scalable, and advanced analysis.

• Leverage AI to Improve Analytical Efficiency - Identify and implement practical AI use cases that accelerate analytics workflows, including insight generation, data exploration, documentation, code development, quality checks, dashboard creation, and narrative synthesis. Ensure AI-enabled outputs meet high standards for accuracy, explainability, privacy, and analytical rigor.

• Create Reusable AI-Enabled Analytics Solutions - Build and share reusable prompts, workflows, templates, automation patterns, and AI-assisted tools that help analysts work faster while improving consistency and quality across deliverables.

• Elevate the Analytics Community - Mentor intermediate and senior analysts across the organization by improving technical craft, analytical rigor, code quality, data storytelling, and effective use of AI tools. Help build a high-trust, high-standards data culture.

• Staff-Level Product Analytics - Experience 8+ years of experience in Product Analytics, Data Science, Growth Analytics, or a related field, with a strong track record of delivering impact at a Staff, Principal, Lead, or equivalent level.

• Advanced Technical Expertise - Expert proficiency with the modern analytics stack, including SQL, Python or R, and BI tools such as Tableau. Experience with complex, high-volume behavioral datasets is essential.

• AI Fluency and Practical Application - Experience leveraging AI tools, LLMs, automation, or AI-assisted to improve the speed, quality, and scalability of analytical work. You know how to use AI responsibly by validating outputs, managing risk, protecting sensitive data, and ensuring recommendations remain grounded in evidence.

• Strong Analytical Judgment - Deep experience selecting the right analytical methods, experimentation frameworks, and measurement approaches for ambiguous business and product problems. You balance methodological rigor with practical business speed.

• Influence Without Authority - Exceptional communication skills and the ability to translate complex analysis into clear, actionable recommendations. You partner effectively with Engineers, advise senior Product leaders, and discuss methodology with Analytics subject matter experts.

• A Multiplier Mindset - You measure success not only by your own analytical output, but by how much you improve the effectiveness, judgment, and technical capability of the analysts around you.

Helping people discover their story is at the heart of ours. Ancestry is the largest provider of family history and personal DNA testing, harnessing a powerful combination of information, science and technology to help people discover their family history and stories that were never possible before. Ancestry’s suite of products includes: AncestryDNA, AncestryProGenealogists, Fold3, Newspapers.com, Find a Grave, Archives.com, and Rootsweb. We offer excellent benefits and a competitive compensation package. For additional information, regarding our benefits and career information, please visit our website at http://ancestry.com/careers

As a signatory of the ParityPledge in Support of Women and the ParityPledge in Support of People of Color, Ancestry values pay transparency and pay equity. We are pleased to share the base salary range for this position: $174,720 - $218,400 with eligibility for bonus, equity and comprehensive benefits including health, dental and vision. The actual salary will vary by geographic region and job experience. We will share detailed compensation data for a specific location during the recruiting process. Read more about our benefits HERE.

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

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 candidates who live in San Francisco, CA, 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.

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 candidates who live in San Francisco, CA, 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.