Ancestry
Business Development Manager | Historical Content Acquisition | FTC Maternity Leave Cover
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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, empowers journeys of personal discovery to enrich lives. With our unparalleled collection of over 40 billion records, 3 million subscribers, and an expanding DNA network of over 23 million people, customers can explore their family history and gain deeper insights into their lives. For the past 40 years, we’ve fostered trusted relationships with millions who rely on us to preserve, discover, and share the most meaningful details about themselves and their families.
We embrace a location-flexible work model, allowing you to choose whether to work from home or the nearest office—or a hybrid approach (subject to location restrictions and office-based requirements). We’re committed to hiring and promoting worldwide to build a diverse, inclusive workforce.
Together, we cultivate an environment where collaboration thrives, diversity is celebrated, and everyone can be their authentic self. Every idea is valued, ensuring our products and services reflect our global, diverse community.
Ancestry encourages applications from minorities, women, people with disabilities, veterans, and all qualified candidates. Ready to dedicate your career to enriching lives? Join us—to pursue those who crave both curiosity and impact.
Role: Content Acquisition Partnerships – Maternity Leave Cover (Fixed-Term Contract)
About the Role
We seek a thoughtful, driven professional to join our Content Acquisition team on a fixed-term maternity leave cover contract. This role will partner closely with archives, historical institutions, genealogy communities, and cross-functional stakeholders to identify, acquire, and publish valuable historical records for Ancestry members across the UK and Ireland.
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The ideal candidate must be adaptable, commercially astute, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment—while building external relationships, maintaining key partnerships, and managing complex projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain relationships with archives, government entities, historical institutions, and genealogy organisations across the UK and Ireland.
- Identify, evaluate, and negotiate opportunities for content acquisition and licensing.
- Lead end-to-end content acquisition projects, from discovery to digitisation, publication, and launch.
- Collaborate with Content, Product, Marketing, PR, and Research teams to maximise the impact and commercial value of new collections.
- Monitor collection performance and drive initiatives to increase member engagement and business outcomes.
- Represent Ancestry at industry events and share expertise on genealogy, archives, and historical records.
Requirements
- 5+ years’ experience in business development, partnerships, content acquisition, licensing, or a related field.
- Strong relationship-building, negotiation, project management, and analytical skills.
- Experience working with archives, government agencies, or cultural institutions is highly desirable.
- Commercially minded, collaborative, and thrives in a fast-paced, multi-priority environment.
- Passion for history, genealogy, archives, or historical records, with UK/Irish records experience being a plus.
- Willingness to travel regularly within the UK and Ireland, with occasional international travel required.
Why Ancestry?
Here’s your chance to contribute meaningfully to a team that connects millions of people worldwide with their past—by expanding access to precious historical records. Your work directly supports Ancestry’s mission, strengthens partnerships with archives and institutions, and provides the opportunity to make an enduring difference.
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Our workplace offers:
- A collaborative culture.
- Competitive compensation.
- Meaningful contributions, beyond the routine.
Location Flexibility
- London-based candidates: Expected to collaborate frequently with the London team and likely have opportunities to work from office (hybrid model).
- Ireland-based candidates: Allowed to work remotely, with occasional opportunity to collaborate from the Dublin office if needed.
- All roles will require travel to partner locations in the UK and Ireland for meetings and relationship-building.
About Ancestry’s Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
At Ancestry, we believe in a workforce and culture that reflects our diverse clients. We’re committed to being an equal-opportunity employer and make hiring decisions free from bias, considering factors such as race, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, and more.
Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require support during the interview process, please inform your recruiter.
All offers of employment are contingent on compliance with background check policies in accordance with applicable laws.
Ancestry respects privacy and does not accept unsolicited support from search firms for this opportunity. All resumes submitted by firms will be considered solely the property of Ancestry. Should a candidate be hired through a referral or otherwise, no search firm fee will be paid.
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