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…