Principal Designer, UX - Remote

Job Description

About Ancestry: When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. We believe that by discovering the struggles and triumphs of our past, we can foster deeper bonds and more meaningful connections among families and communities. Our talented team of scientists, engineers, genealogists, historians, and storytellers is dedicated to empowering customers around the world from all backgrounds on their journeys of personal discovery. With more than 30+ billion digitized global historical records, 100+ million family trees, and 20+ million people in our growing AncestryDNA database, Ancestry helps customers discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? You belong at Ancestry. At Ancestry, we strive for design that matters! We have over 3 million subscribers who use our site for a combined 5 million hours a week to enrich their understanding of themselves and their place in history. With your help, we’ll attract even more enthusiastic users. 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. As a Principal UX Designer at Ancestry you would be an essential part of our UX team reporting to a Director of UX & Design. We have critical UX problems to solve, but we also honor harmonizing our work and life. After all, our business depends on strengthening family ties.

What you'll do...

• Envision and create the future of the Ancestry family history product by collaborating with cross-functional teams and inspiring each other to build profound experiences for our customers.
• Guide the UX and visual design efforts from start to finish — from problem definition to design implementation
• Partner with product managers on developing product strategy and definition
• Translate quantitative data and qualitative insights into design solutions
• Craft core deliverables and artifacts (e.g. workflow diagrams, sitemaps, content inventories, user flows, wireframes, final design, and navigation systems)
• Participate in generative research and comprehensive user testing
• Collaborate with other designers to maintain design consistency and cohesion
• Set the bar for quality of execution
• Advocate for, shape, and scope design opportunities

What we are looking for...

• You have an awe-inspiring portfolio of desktop and mobile digital products and experiences
• You are a pragmatic visionary who places the customer experience at the top of their list of priorities and is skilled at articulating that vision to internal stakeholders
• Organization and problem-solving skills and the ability to translate ambiguity into insights and bias for action
• An person who can transitions easily between high-level strategic thinking and detailed execution, influencing design across the company
• You are enthusiastic about defining a vision and strategy for advancing design into new areas (e.g. conversational UI, wearables, machine learning, AI)
• 10 years of fearless experience designing for web-based and mobile customer experiences (agency or client side)
• You are a systems-level design thinker and excited to distill complex workflows into simple and elegant solutions

Who you are...

• 10+ years of industry experience as a UX designer, interaction designer, or similar design-related role
• Experience collaborating with product leadership, design managers, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience creating wireframes to illustrate complex web applications and workflows
• An online portfolio demonstrating samples of design deliverables (personas, journey maps, wireframes, and prototypes) and the associated customer outcomes

Benefits: Benefits: 401K Plan, Tuition Reimbursement, Life & Accident Insurance, 12 Paid Holidays, Flexible Vacation PTO, Sick Leave, Volunteer Time, Employer Perks: Ancestry Subscription and Discounts for Employee, Commuting and Parking Benefits, Ski Passes, Employee Referral, Fitness Reimbursement (Colorado only*) Minimum salary of $104,000/year + eligible for bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits including health, dental and vision. Read more about our benefits HERE . *Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20) GD-Sponsored IND2 #LI-MY1 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