Associate Technical Product Manager

About the Company

Ancestry® is the global leader in family history, helping people discover, preserve, and share their unique family stories. With over 65 billion records, 3.5 million subscribers, and a growing DNA network of 27 million, Ancestry enables customers to explore their past and gain insights into their lives. The company fosters a human-centered, inclusive, and diverse work environment, valuing every individual's story and perspective. Ancestry offers location flexibility, allowing employees to work from an office, home, or hybrid model, depending on role and location.

About the Role

As a member of Ancestry's Data, AI & Analytics Platforms team, you will act as a Bridge Builder and Steward, ensuring governed, high-quality data flows into Finance reporting, analyst workflows, and AI-driven applications. This role sits at the intersection of Data Governance, Data Quality, and Analytics Enablement, partnering with stakeholders across Governance, Enterprise Data Management (EDM), Finance, and the analyst community. It serves as a high-impact entry point into technical product management.

Responsibilities

• Steward Data Governance — Support the intake, definition, and lifecycle management of business metrics and governance protocols, ensuring adherence to compliance and audit standards.
• Drive Data Quality — Partner with engineering on automated quality checks, schema validations, and remediation workflows; monitor outcomes through established observability frameworks.
• Enable Analytics Partners — Collaborate with Analytics Engineering and Product Analytics teams to deliver platform features that accelerate self-service, reduce time-to-insight, and standardize trusted metrics.
• Support Platform Migrations — Help track stakeholder adoption, usage telemetry, and communications for legacy tool deprecations and new capability rollouts.
• Triage Business Requests — Manage incoming stakeholder requests with clear prioritization frameworks, ensuring the team builds the "right things at the right time."
• Document Rigorously — Create and maintain feature requirements, technical specifications, user stories, and governance documentation.
• Operational Excellence — Track key platform metrics including data freshness, pipeline uptime, and quality SLAs to ensure a healthy, trusted foundation.
• Apply AI-First Principles — Use AI-augmented product management workflows in your daily work and contribute to the team's AI literacy commitment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Analytics, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• 1–3 years of experience in product management, program management, business analysis, data analysis, or technical operations roles. New graduates with strong relevant internships will be considered.
• Working knowledge of SQL, the data lifecycle, and concepts like data lineage, schema validation, and metric definitions.
• Genuine interest in data stewardship, compliance, and ensuring "ready-for-use" data assets. SOX or audit exposure is a plus.
• Ability to translate between business stakeholders (Finance, Analytics) and technical teams (Engineering, Data Platform). Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working with data to inform prioritization decisions; able to translate platform metrics into stakeholder-friendly insights.
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools like Jira or Rally.
• Detail-oriented, organized, comfortable with ambiguity, and motivated by operational excellence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Internship or co-op experience in a data-centric, analytics, or platform product management environment.
• Familiarity with data catalog, BI, or data warehouse platforms (e.g., Alation, Tableau, Redshift, Snowflake).
• Exposure to compliance frameworks (SOX, GDPR, CCPA).

Benefits

Ancestry offers excellent benefits and a competitive compensation package, including health, dental, and vision coverage. For more details, visit Ancestry Careers.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $81,720 - $102,150, with eligibility for bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits. The actual salary will vary by geographic region and job experience.