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Career Development Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 21+ career development jobs at companies offering compressed weeks and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 4 new this week. Hiring companies include Syracuse University, Graphcore, and Fivetran.

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9-day fortnights 1
compressed weeks 5
unlimited PTO 5
best places to work 6
generous parental leave 2

Updated September 30, 2026

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Senior Engineering Manager, Agent Platform & Growth

Render · Remote · USA or Canada

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$236k – $289k

Engineering Manager, FinHub - Financial Intelligence (Platform)

1mo

Coinbase · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$218k – $257k

Engineering Manager, Billing

17d

Supabase · Remote · Worldwide

61 · GoodFlexible Hours

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Engineering Manager, Metadata (AMER)

1mo

Fivetran · Remote · Colorado, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$187k – $233k

Engineering Manager, Metadata

1mo

Fivetran · Remote · Colorado, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$187k – $233k

Career Development Specialist

Marathon Petroleum · Onsite · San Antonio, TX or Findlay, OH

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Talent Development Partner

Smartsheet · Onsite · Bellevue, WA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$95k – $115k

Engineering Manager, Dashboard

Vercel · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA, USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$226k – $325k

Career Advisor

Syracuse University · Hybrid · Syracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week

Associate Director, Student Employment

Syracuse University · Onsite · Syracuse, NY, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week

System Software Engineering Manager

Graphcore · Hybrid · Gdańsk, Poland

57 · GoodUnlimited PTOzł 350k – zł 474k

Engineering Manager - Data Platform

2mo

Spotify · Hybrid · London, UK

64 · GoodGenerous PTO

Employer Relations Consultant

13d

George Washington University · Hybrid · Washington, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week

Lead Academic & Professional Advisor

19d

Syracuse University · Hybrid · Syracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week

Engineering Manager - Frameworks

29d

Graphcore · Hybrid · Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

57 · GoodUnlimited PTOzł 351k – zł 474k

Database Engineering Team Manager

3mo

Squarespace · Hybrid · Dublin, Ireland

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave€93k – €143k

Engineering Manager - Access Essentials - Core Product

4mo

Okta · Hybrid · Bengaluru, India

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Engineering Team Manager - Financial Solutions

4mo

Squarespace · Hybrid · Dublin, Ireland

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave€93k – €143k

Engineering Manager

1mo

Confido · Onsite · New York City, NY, USA

54 · DecentUnlimited PTO$260k – $320k

Assistant Director Academic Advising

2mo

Syracuse University · Hybrid · Syracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Career Development on this page include Syracuse University, Graphcore, and Fivetran. Career Development roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Career Development is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Career Development roles span the full seniority range — we list 21 open roles requiring Career Development across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Career Development hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Career Development roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Career Development candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Career Development on current listings.

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