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# Lead Product Designer, Systems

- **Company:** Ancestry.com Inc.
- **Location:** Draper, UT, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $150,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computing Platforms, Software Design Patterns, Interaction Design
- **Published:** July 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5e7e96e32140de61

## About the Role

* Significant experience in product, systems, or platform design within complex consumer products.
 * Strong systems thinker with deep expertise in interaction design, design patterns, and scalable frameworks.
 * Skilled at designing across surfaces and identifying reusable patterns that scale across products and experiences.
 * Exceptional interaction and visual design craft, with a portfolio demonstrating strong systems thinking and executional quality.
 * Comfortable operating as a lead individual contributor - setting direction while remaining deeply hands-on in the work.
 * Experienced in partnering closely with product managers and engineers to build and evolve shared design systems.
 * Strong communicator and facilitator, able to align diverse teams around shared principles, patterns, and decisions.
 * Highly adaptable and pragmatic - able to balance ideal states with "good enough for now" solutions to maintain speed and momentum.
 * Focused on enablement over control: reducing friction, unblocking teams, and helping others move faster.
 * Comfortable working in ambiguity and across competing priorities in complex, multi-team environments.

Bonus: Experience with consumer subscription products, social experiences, storytelling products, creator tools, or products centered around memories, identity, and connection.

## Description

* Define and evolve core interaction patterns, components, and design principles that ensure consistency across Ancestry's product ecosystem.
 * Identify fragmentation and opportunity areas across teams, and translate them into scalable design systems and shared solutions.
 * Embed within product teams to shape early thinking, unblock design challenges, and elevate execution quality.
 * Partner closely with research and customer insights teams, including direct conversations with customers, to ground system decisions in real user needs and ensure patterns reflect real-world behavior.
 * Create foundational flows, frameworks, and prototypes that clarify complex cross-product experiences.
 * Partner closely with design, engineering, and content teams to ensure systems are practical, adopted, and maintained.
 * Bring structure to ambiguity by connecting individual experiences into a cohesive system of patterns and behaviors.
 * Drive alignment across teams on how core experiences should look, feel, and behave.
 * Influence product direction through systems thinking, facilitation, and cross-functional partnership.


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