About Ancestry: When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, connects everyone with their past so they can discover, preserve, and share their unique family stories. With our unparalleled collection of more than 65 billion records, over 3.5 million subscribers, and over 27 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- see the full list of eligible US locations HERE). We will continue to hire and promote beyond the boundaries of our office locations, to enable broadened possibilities for employee diversity. Together, we work every day to foster a work environment that's inclusive as well as diverse, and where our people can be themselves. Every idea and perspective is valued so that our products and services reflect the global and diverse clients we serve. Ancestry encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? Join the curious. We are seeking an executive leader to join our People Leadership Team as Vice President, Talent & Organizational Effectiveness. In this strategic role, you will lead the core functional engines that shape the employee lifecycle, from strategic business partnership and talent development to leadership effectiveness, workplace, and culture. You will establish the vision, operating model, and multi-year roadmap for Talent & Organizational Effectiveness, with priorities tied to business needs and organizational capacity. Lead and develop the functional leaders across People Business Partnership, Talent Management, Learning & Development, and Employee Engagement & Belonging. Establish the systemic connections between their work so business needs inform talent decisions, talent decisions guide development and mobility, and employee insights strengthen leadership and organizational effectiveness. Build a disciplined approach to program design, implementation, adoption, and evaluation. Simplify processes and invest in initiatives that deliver meaningful value. Integrate AI into talent and organizational workflows to improve insight, simplify processes, and strengthen decision-making. Prioritize applications across talent reviews, skills assessment, development planning, internal mobility, and employee listening, with clear measures of effectiveness and appropriate human judgment. What You Will Do: Strategic Business Partnership: Elevate People Business Partners as trusted advisors to business leaders, driving organizational design, workforce planning, leadership effectiveness, and change management in alignment with business priorities. Talent Management & Performance: Lead integrated performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, and capability assessments to strengthen accountability, identify critical talent, and build sustainable leadership pipelines. Learning & Leadership Development: Define and scale learning strategies that build critical business capabilities, strengthen manager effectiveness, and embed coaching, mentoring, and development into everyday work. Career Growth & Internal Mobility: Establish clear career pathways and internal mobility frameworks that connect skills, development, succession planning, and talent movement to evolving business needs. Employee Engagement & Culture: Drive employee listening, engagement, and belonging strategies that translate feedback into measurable action, reinforce inclusive leadership, and strengthen organizational culture. AI & Talent Innovation: Integrate AI and emerging technologies into talent and organizational workflows to improve workforce insights, streamline processes, and strengthen decision-making while maintaining appropriate human oversight. Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, People Operations, Finance, Places, and business leaders to align talent strategies, workforce investments, and the employee experience. Organizational Effectiveness & Impact: Establish scalable operating practices, leverage people analytics, and measure program effectiveness to prioritize investments, drive adoption, and deliver meaningful business outcomes. Who You Are: 15+ years of progressive experience in People, talent, or organizational effectiveness roles, including at least 5 years leading multiple relevant functions and developing senior functional leaders. Demonstrated success building or substantially transforming an integrated talent and organizational effectiveness practice, including its operating model, team capabilities, and measurable delivery. Demonstrated experience applying AI to talent and organizational practices, moving from experimentation to practical adoption. Ability to identify valuable use cases, redesign workflows, and evaluate improvements in decision quality, efficiency, and employee outcomes. Significant leadership experience across several of the following: People Business Partnership, Talent Management, Learning & Development, leadership development, and employee engagement. Ability to connect these disciplines into a coherent strategy. Experience in technology, digital consumer, subscription, media, entertainment, or similarly dynamic businesses. Experience supporting global or distributed organizations is highly valued. Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to prioritize investments, assess tradeoffs, and connect talent initiatives to organizational performance. Demonstrated ability to advise and constructively challenge senior executives while building effective partnerships across functions. Proven ability to move from strategy to implementation, lead through ambiguity, and deliver programs that are practical, scalable, and adopted by the business. Ability to interpret people analytics and employee feedback, make evidence-informed decisions, and communicate findings without overstating what the data supports. 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: $218,560 - $273,200 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 HERE. 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 candidates who live in San Francisco, CA, 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. Let’s write the next chapter of history together. Our employees are fueled by our inquisitive nature and united by our shared commitment to help people discover, craft, and connect their family history. Whether you’re a natural problem solver, a strategic builder, an inspired creative, or something in between—we invite you to share your story and join us in making history.

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