Ancestry

Staff Product Analyst

Ancestry$174K — $218K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in Product Analytics, Data Science, Growth Analytics, or similar fields
  • Expert in SQL, Python or R, and BI tools like Tableau
  • Practical experience using AI tools for analytics enhancement
  • Strong analytical judgment for solving complex business problems
  • Exceptional communication skills for translating analysis into actionable insights
  • Proven ability to influence and collaborate across teams

Responsibilities

  • Own and lead Product Measurement Strategy, defining KPIs and metrics
  • Proactively generate insights from complex datasets to assess user behavior
  • Synthesize data to shape product strategies and present to senior leaders
  • Partner with data engineering to enhance data models and analytical infrastructure
  • Identify and implement AI use cases to enhance analytical workflows
  • Create reusable AI-enabled analytics solutions to improve efficiency and quality
  • Mentor and elevate the analytics community through knowledge sharing

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision plans
  • Opportunity for bonuses and equity
  • Supportive work culture focused on pay equity
  • Professional development resources and mentorship
  • Flexible work arrangements and a family-friendly environment
Full Job Description

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.

What You’ll Do...
  • 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.

What You’ll Bring...
  • 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

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 .

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

About Ancestry

Ancestry is a genealogy company that provides online access to historical records, family trees, and DNA testing services. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Lehi, Utah. Ancestry has a database of over 20 billion historical records and has helped millions of people discover their family history. The company offers a variety of subscription plans that provide access to different types of records and features. Ancestry also offers DNA testing services that can help people discover their ethnic origins and connect with relatives they may not have known about. Ancestry is one of the largest genealogy companies in the world.
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1,300 employees
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1983

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