Senior Director, Integrated Marketing

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.

At Ancestry, we connect everyone with their past so they can discover, preserve, and share their unique family stories. The Senior Director of Integrated Marketing Strategy plays a critical role in ensuring that Ancestry’s marketing efforts are consumer-led, strategically aligned, and deeply connected to business priorities. This role serves as the strategic architect for integrated marketing—defining and driving a unified brand and communication strategy across the consumer journey. You will partner closely with senior leaders across Brand, Media, Creative, Consumer Insights, Analytics, and Lifecycle Marketing, to ensure campaigns and initiatives are grounded in clear strategy and brought together through a cohesive, intentional approach. This role is ideal for a strategic leader who thrives at the intersection of brand, business, and consumer insight—someone who can craft clarity from complexity and guide cross-functional teams toward a shared, actionable, strategic vision.

What you will do...

Integrated Marketing & Brand Strategy

• Define and lead annual integrated marketing and communication strategies that align Ancestry’s brand, business objectives, and consumer needs.

• Establish strategic frameworks that guide audience definition, messaging, sequencing, and prioritization across initiatives.

• Translate business goals and insights into clear strategic direction for campaigns, moments, and always-on marketing efforts.

Consumer Journey Leadership

• Own the strategic vision for the end-to-end consumer journey, ensuring consistency, relevance, and impact across awareness, consideration, conversion, and retention.

• Identify key moments that matter and define the role marketing plays at each stage of the journey.

• Partner with insights and analytics teams to continuously refine journey and messaging strategies based on performance and learning.

Campaign Strategy & Integration

• Serve as the strategic lead for major integrated campaigns and promotional moments.

• Ensure alignment across teams and touchpoints by setting clear objectives, audience focus, and communication priorities.

• Guide how campaigns come together across paid, owned, and earned environments through strong strategic direction and collaboration.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Influence

• Act as a trusted strategic partner to senior leaders across media, creative, lifecycle, brand, analytics, and product marketing.

• Influence alignment across marketing and broader business teams without direct ownership of execution.

• Lead strategic planning and alignment moments that bring multiple disciplines together around shared goals.

Measurement & Strategic Evolution

• Partner with analytics and channel leaders to define success metrics and learning agendas for integrated strategies.

• Use performance insights to inform optimization and future strategic development.

• Champion a test-and-learn mindset to continuously strengthen marketing effectiveness and impact.

Who You Are...

• 12+ years of experience in integrated marketing strategy, brand strategy, or related leadership roles.

• Proven ability to define and drive complex, cross-channel marketing strategies in consumer-facing organizations.

• Deep expertise in consumer journey strategy, messaging architecture, and campaign planning.

• Comfortable leading through influence in highly matrixed, cross-functional environments.

• Strong strategic thinker and storyteller, able to connect insight, emotion, and business outcomes.

• Confident executive presence with the ability to align and inspire senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or related field; MBA preferred.

• Experience in subscription-based, consumer technology, or global brands.

• Strong partnership experience with media, creative, analytics, and lifecycle teams.

• Passion for storytelling, heritage, and human connection—the heart of Ancestry’s mission.

What You’ll Love About Working Here

• The opportunity to shape how Ancestry’s marketing strategy comes together across the consumer journey.

• A collaborative, high-impact marketing organization built on insight, creativity, and strategic rigor.

• A mission-driven company helping people understand who they are and where they come from.

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 http://ancestry.com/careers

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: $179,140 - $235,350 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.

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

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.