We’re looking for a writer to collaborate with Creative Directors, Art Directors, and Marketing team partners to create fresh, compelling copy across a wide variety of projects, including email campaigns, website copy (especially onboarding and conversion user experiences) and more.

You’ll work across teams and disciplines to deeply understand our customers and partner with marketing and site optimization teams to develop messages to reach those customers. You’ll also take complex information and concepts and distill them into engaging user experiences that are easily understood by our target audiences and inspire them to engage with our brand.

As a copywriter, you’ll take responsibility for the quality of all writing assigned, ensuring that it stays on brand, follows voice standards, and performs to achieve the metrics required by the project, all following digital best practices and achieving creative excellence.

Overall, you’re inquisitive, collaborative, conceptual, and of course, an amazing writer. And you’ll be a valued partner on a dynamic team.

Key Responsibilities/Performance Requirements:

• Partner with key team members to develop the tone and communication strategy for onsite, marketing user flows
• Gain a deep understanding of the motivations and behaviors of our target audiences to increase the relevance and effectiveness of your ideas
• Identify inconsistencies and help improve current web copy and processes
• Update our family of websites with copy that shines, including new product descriptions, improvements to current functionality, offers, new-user experiences, and instructions for interacting with product features
• Work closely with a team of researchers, developers, analysts, and product and marketing experts to translate marketing strategies into sophisticated, leading-edge creative solutions
• Expertly present and diplomatically defend your work and area of expertise, while maintaining and building positive relationships with internal and external partners
• Thrive in a deadline-driven environment with the ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, English, or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years of professional copywriting experience for web, digital
• A solid portfolio proving a variety of work
• Excellent writing, editing, and conceptual skills demonstrating an ability to be very clear and concise
• Strong interpersonal communication, organization, and time-management skills
• The flexibility to adjust to changing priorities
• Demonstrated experience with testing and conversion-related creative and direct-response marketing a plus
• Position located in either Provo, Utah, or San Francisco offices.

Ancestry is the world's largest online resource for family history. We have helped pioneer the market for online family history research, taking a pursuit that was expensive and time-consuming and making it easy, affordable and accessible to anyone with an interest in their family history. The foundation of our service is an extensive collection of billions of historical records that we have digitized, indexed and put online over the past 17 years. These digital records and documents, combined with our proprietary online search technologies, tools and collaboration features, have enabled our more than two million subscribers to create over 13 billion historical records, along with millions of DNA results to make meaningful discoveries about the lives of their ancestors.

With over 1,400 employees around the world, we are known for our cutting-edge technology, phenomenal innovation, and offer a compelling and rewarding workplace where you will thrive. We seek out passionate people to join our mission of helping people discover, preserve and share their family history. We invite you to explore and discover the many opportunities that await you at Ancestry. 

Working for Ancestry

Ancestry is a profitable, growing company with a positive, high-energy environment. Together, our dedicated teams are harnessing the power of technology and using it to simplify the way people connect with their families and their unique legacies. Our work environment is fast-paced and challenging, but also extremely exciting. You’ll work with a team of passionate, engaged individuals. We offer excellent benefits and a competitive compensation package. For additional information, regarding our benefits and career information, please visit our website athttp://ancestry.com/careers

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.

Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related thereto), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, age (40 and older), mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics), veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis that is prohibited by applicable law. The Company also makes reasonable accommodations to applicants or employees with qualifying disabilities who request them and who otherwise meet the requirements of applicable law. If you would like to request an accommodation during the application process, please contact our Director of Recruiting.