Lead Product Designer, Share

Ancestry•Draper, UT

1d•$130,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Ancestry is seeking a Lead Product Designer to join their Preserve & Share team. This team is focused on helping users save, celebrate, and share their family memories and discoveries. The role will lead the company's strategy around 'Share,' aiming to connect users with family and friends over their Ancestry discoveries. The Lead Product Designer will own the long-term vision for sharing, iterating on existing features and developing new strategies to enhance the sharing experience. The goal is to create experiences that transform discoveries into moments of connection, making family history more engaging and bringing families closer together. The position reports to the Design Director of the Preserve & Share team and involves close collaboration with product, design, engineering, research, content, and marketing teams. The work aims to strengthen emotional connections and inspire people to share their stories across generations.

Requirements

Significant experience designing delightful consumer products, with a track record of delivering experiences that drive engagement and create customer value.
Comfortable operating as a lead individual contributor — setting direction while remaining deeply hands-on in the work.
Strong systems thinker who can connect customer needs with business goals and product strategy.
Exceptional interaction and visual design skills, with a portfolio demonstrating craft and attention to detail.
Skilled at turning complexity into simple, intuitive experiences.
Strong storyteller and communicator, able to align stakeholders around a shared vision and influence decisions across disciplines.
Passionate about designing products that create emotional connections and bring people closer together.
Comfortable working in ambiguity and exploring new opportunities through experimentation and iteration.
Experience partnering closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience with consumer subscription products, social experiences, storytelling products, creator tools, or products centered around memories, identity, and connection.

Responsibilities

Lead design initiatives from start to finish, driving consistency, quality, and cohesion.
Shape product strategy alongside product managers and engineers, identifying opportunities to increase engagement and create moments of connection.
Translate customer needs, qualitative insights, and quantitative data into intuitive and emotionally resonant experiences.
Partner closely with research and customer insights teams, including direct engagement with customers, to inform design decisions that build trust and clarity.
Bring a systems-thinking approach to design, helping connect individual features into a broader, unified experience.
Create high-quality flows, prototypes, and polished interactions that bring ideas to life and inspire teams.
Partner across teams to ensure experiences feel cohesive and aligned with broader customer journeys.
Advocate for the customer across the organization, fostering a culture of clarity, empathy, and intentional design.
Raise the quality bar through thoughtful critique, collaboration, and mentorship of other designers.