Updated July 8, 2026

20 open positions

Career Development Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ career development jobs at companies offering best places to work and unlimited PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 5 new this week. Hiring companies include Fingerprint, Squarespace, and Syracuse University.

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10+

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Senior Manager, Talent Management

Affirm

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Manager, Talent Management

Affirm

RemoteCanada

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Engineering Manager, Attendance

SeatGeek

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Engineering Manager

1mo

Fingerprint

RemoteWorldwide

65 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Engineering Manager

1mo

Fingerprint

RemoteWorldwide

65 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Engineering Manager

1mo

RevenueCat

RemoteSpain

65 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Engineering Manager, Marketing Technology - Segmentation Platform & Insights Platform

1mo

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Engineering Manager

16d

TeamSnap

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Engineering Manager

1mo

Tekmetric

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Engineering Manager: Applied AI

Copia Automation

HybridNew York City, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Engineering Manager – DevEx & Customer Operations

Nutanix

HybridSan Jose, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Assistant Director Academic Career Advising

Syracuse University

HybridSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Assistant Director Academic Career Advising

Syracuse University

HybridSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Engineering Manager, Attendance

SeatGeek

HybridNew York, USA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Manager, Engineering - AI Services

12d

Guidewire

HybridSan Mateo, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Lead, Engineering

12d

MongoDB

HybridDublin, Ireland

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Engineering Manager

28d

Sigma Computing

HybridSan Francisco, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$230k - $270k

Manager, Software Engineering (Back-end services)

22d

Outreach

HybridPrague, Czech Republic

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Database Engineering Team Manager

1mo

Squarespace

HybridDublin, Ireland

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave€93k - €143k

Engineering Team Manager - Financial Solutions

1mo

Squarespace

HybridDublin, Ireland

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Career Development on this page include Fingerprint, Squarespace, and Syracuse University. 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 20 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.