About
When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person's story is important. Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, empowers journeys of personal discovery to enrich lives. With our unparalleled collection of more than 40 billion records, over 3 million subscribers and over 23 million people in our growing DNA network, customers can discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Over the past 40 years, we've built trusted relationships with millions of people who have chosen us as the platform for discovering, preserving and sharing the most important information about themselves and their families.
We are committed to our location flexible work approach, allowing you to choose to work in the nearest office, from your home, or a hybrid of both (subject to location restrictions and roles that are required to be in the office).
We are looking for a senior programme leader for a 12-month fixed-term maternity cover starting January 2027. Partnering closely with the Director of Growth Markets, you will connect commercial priorities with execution across product, marketing, and international market initiatives.
Responsibilities
•Translate business priorities into sequenced programme plans with clear milestones, owners, and trade-offs.
•Represent Growth Markets in Product and Commerce discussions, using customer, market, and commercial evidence to inform priorities.
•Coordinate launch and migration readiness across Product, Technology, Marketing, CRM, localisation, and Member Services.
•Facilitate working sessions, clarify ambiguous requests, drive action follow-through, and escalate unresolved blockers.
•Track risks, delivery dependencies, and assumptions while maintaining a shared portfolio view and executive decision briefs.
•Coordinate non-working media budget inputs, monthly accruals, invoices, supplier onboarding, and approval workflows.
Requirements
•Proven experience leading complex, multi-functional programmes and delivery management in a digital business.
•Strong stakeholder leader able to build trust, influence without authority, and hold partners to agreed commitments.
•Ability to ramp up quickly in an unfamiliar portfolio and manage competing priorities with limited supervision.
•Strong facilitation and presentation skills, translating complex topics into clear recommendations tailored for senior leaders.
•Solid commercial acumen with confidence using market, customer, and performance evidence to clarify delivery trade-offs.
•Practical experience coordinating budget records, supplier dependencies, and approval processes with attention to detail.
•Background in international expansion, localisation, market migrations, e-commerce journeys, or tools like monday.com.
What we offer
Join a dedicated team working to connect millions of people with their past and enrich their futures. At Ancestry, you will play a role in pioneering legal solutions that shape the consumer genomics industry. Your contributions will help foster and protect our workforce that is dedicated to helping our customers tell their own stories, while supporting a brand recognised and trusted around the world. We offer a collaborative workplace, competitive compensation, and the opportunity to make a meaningful difference.
