Senior Program Manager

Job Description

About Ancestry: When you join Ancestry, you join our family tree. Backed by history, science, and technology, we’re creating a new world of connection, innovation, and understanding. Whether it’s reuniting long-lost relatives through DNA or unearthing new family stories from historical records, Ancestry empowers life-changing experiences. With over 20 billion digitized historical records, 100 million family trees, and 15+ million DNA kits sold, Ancestry is bringing the power of personal discovery to people around the world. We’re looking for a Senior Program Manager that is a highly autonomous rock star. This role is critical to the Ancestry Product Development organization, working closely with world-class product managers, engineers, designers, marketers, and others to ensure the timely delivery of a series of innovative, cross-functional family history features. The Senior Program Manager will focus on developing processes that help the team improve coordination, predictability, transparency and identify and overcome delivery roadblocks in a complex, cross-functional environment. The successful candidate will not only be responsible for managing multiple product development projects across the Cloud but will also drive execution of the product team and broader cross organizational change initiatives. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in a program and product management capacity in a multi-disciplinary environment. Having familiarity with family history and agile methodologies will be an advantage. This position will be based in our Lehi, UT office. The primary responsibility of the Sr. Program Manager is to ensure timely delivery of products and features by developing and guiding teams through processes that will help them improve coordination, predictability, transparency and identify and overcome product delivery roadblocks. Strong communication skills are essential to coordinating several multi-disciplinary teams toward unified product and feature releases.

What You Will Do:

• Ensure timely delivery of products and features by developing processes that improve predictability and transparency, identify dependencies, and ensure that teams are working together efficiently to overcome roadblocks
• Work closely with cross-functional teams including UX Design, Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, PR, Finance, Legal and Customer Support through the product development and platform transition process
• Lead the process to help key stakeholders understand dependencies and trade-offs throughout the product development process
• Ensure informed decisions and governance by bringing together stakeholders and providing a unified view of project status and risk factors
• Assist in aligning the right resources to the right projects at the right time, ensuring individual resources are deployed optimally and requirements are clearly understood
• Coordinate product launch plans with product management, product marketing and engineering
• Establish and extend best practice enterprise-wide by continuously iterating on program management processes and capturing best practices

Who You Are:

• B.S. or B.A. degree required - MBA preferred
• Must have 8+ years program / project or product management experience , leading large cross-functional efforts with a proven track record of shipping awesome products, preferably with a consumer-facing web services brand (formal program management training, PMP/PMI and CSMcertification a plus)
• Experience in a cloud environment required (AWS preferred)
• Strong experience in an Agile environment
• Comfort in presenting to executive leaders
• Experience working in an environment that is changing and evolving
• Demonstrated success in working with and influencing cross-functional teams and working collaboratively with stakeholders, even in remote offices
• Must be flexible and adaptable to changing demands based upon the needs of the business
• Strong technical understanding of internet technologies and the operations of a commercial website, with a history of successful partnerships with engineering
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with an entrepreneurial approach and drive for continuous improvement

IND2 #GDSponsored #LI-Post 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 San Francisco office candidates, 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 Apply for this job